Rideshare Market

Anyone who wants to know how the airport ride-hail market in New York City (NYC) really works runs into the same wall: the regulator publishes about 40 gigabytes of raw trip records, and nobody publishes an airport summary. This project turns those records into an interactive notebook. It keeps the 122,806,218 trips that touch John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK), LaGuardia Airport (LGA) or Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) between February 2019 and June 2026, and it answers the market questions from the trips themselves rather than from a press release.

One marimo notebook holds the whole pipeline: the download, the transform, the storage layer, the analysis and the conclusions.

Riders pay more, drivers keep less. The median airport fare rose 52.1% across the archive while the median driver gross rose 34.3%. Payout share fell from 69.7% to 63.9%. Median trip distance barely moved, so trip mix does not explain the gap.

Paying drivers more did not buy market share. Lyft's payout share overtook Uber's at JFK in 2023 and has stayed above it, while Lyft's share of trips fell. That points away from pay as the binding constraint and toward matching, dispatch and curb operations.