Glossary
Transportation Network Provider (TNP)
Transportation Network Provider (TNP) is a TNP is a city-licensed ride-hail company such as Uber. In Datadory's catalog of 1,744 datasets, Chicago Transportation Network Providers Trips (Uber/Lyft/Via): trip-level records reported by Chicago-licensed TNPs, split across datasets covering November 2018-2022, 2023-2024 and January 2025 onward and Dataset notes state reporting are working examples.
What is Transportation Network Provider (TNP)?
A TNP is a city-licensed ride-hail company such as Uber, Lyft or Via that must report every trip to the regulator.
Chicago's ordinance-backed mandate produces near-census trip tables rather than samples.
In this catalog it appears concretely: - Chicago Transportation Network Providers Trips (Uber/Lyft/Via): trip-level records reported by Chicago-licensed TNPs, split across datasets covering November 2018-2022, 2023-2024 and January 2025 onward. - Dataset notes state reporting — "is mandated by municipal ordinance, which is why coverage is near-census for licensed TNPs". - Tags include.
Dataset notes state reporting is the second reference point worth knowing: "is mandated by municipal ordinance, which is why coverage is near-census for licensed TNPs". Reading the two together shows how much variation sits underneath one shared label.
Why does Transportation Network Provider (TNP) matter when choosing a dataset?
Conventions decide whether two sources can be joined at all. Buy one side of an analysis that ignores this convention and every reconciliation step — calendar alignment, unit conversion, entity matching — lands on your team instead of the vendor's.
The failure mode is concrete: the label appears in a listing, the delivered files tell a different story, and the gap surfaces mid-project when fixing it is most expensive.
You rarely have to take a vendor's word for it. 82.4% of the 1,744 datasets Datadory catalogs are free to access, and Chicago Transportation Network Providers Trips (Uber/Lyft/Via): trip-level records reported by Chicago-licensed TNPs, split across datasets covering November 2018-2022, 2023-2024 and January 2025 onward lets you inspect the real artifact before any budget is committed.
How do you evaluate Transportation Network Provider (TNP) in a data source?
Treat every claim of this attribute as testable:
- Open Chicago Transportation Network Providers Trips (Uber/Lyft/Via): trip-level records reported by Chicago-licensed TNPs, split across datasets covering November 2018-2022, 2023-2024 and January 2025 onward and compare its listing against the delivered artifact before paying for a commercial equivalent. 2.
Related terms
Adjacent concepts worth reading next: - high volume for hire vehicle - municipal open data terms - Trip-Level Record Data
Frequently asked questions
What is an example of Transportation Network Provider (TNP)?
Chicago Transportation Network Providers Trips (Uber/Lyft/Via): trip-level records reported by Chicago-licensed TNPs, split across datasets covering November 2018-2022, 2023-2024 and January 2025 onward is the clearest example in this catalog. Its listing is the reference point for this pattern. Across all 1,744 datasets Datadory averages a quality score of 7.81 out of 10, so a named example can be weighed rather than trusted blindly.
Is data described as "Transportation Network Provider (TNP)" free to use?
Treat access and permission separately. 82.4% of the 1,744 datasets in this catalog are free to access, but 235 are freemium and 61 are paid outright, so confirm both the price and the license on the exact distribution before building on it.
How do I verify a source really provides Transportation Network Provider (TNP)?
Open Chicago Transportation Network Providers Trips (Uber/Lyft/Via): trip-level records reported by Chicago-licensed TNPs, split across datasets covering November 2018-2022, 2023-2024 and January 2025 onward next to Dataset notes state reporting and compare the promise with the download. Field definitions are verified for 1495 of 1,744 datasets (85.7%), which makes that check fast inside the catalog and manual outside it.
Datasets containing this field
Datasets containing Transportation Network Provider (TNP)
6 datasets carry transportation network provider (tnp) in the catalog. Open one, count the fields, judge for yourself.
Data.gov GTFS Catalog - US Transit Feed Records, Delivered Clean
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Chicago Transportation Network Providers Trips (Uber/Lyft/Via)
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