Uber to Provide 'Anonymized' Trip Data to Help Urban Infrastructure Planners

Uber will be introducing a website with "anonymized and aggregated" trip data from the 450 cities it serves to better help transportation planners deal with infrastructure needs, wrote Jordan Gilbertson, product manager, and Andrew Salzberg, head of transportation policy, in a Sunday blog post. By analyzing trips over time, the firm can provide estimates for how long it takes to get from one place to another, they wrote. "We can compare travel conditions across different times of day, days of the week, or months of the year -- and how travel times are impacted by big events, road closures or other things happening in a city." The company will work with planning agencies and researchers over the next several weeks to access the data on the website called "Movement," they said. The website will soon be available to the public, they added.