Uber lately introduced Uber Movement, a website that uses Uber’s data to help urban planners make informed decisions about city. With this website, also we could call it a data analytic platform, local leaders, urban planners, and civic communities are easier to work on cracking their city’s commute and figure out how best to invest in new infrastructure.
This website would help us reliably estimate how long it takes to get from one area to another. Also, we can compare travel conditions across different time of day, days of the week, or month of the year-and how travel times are impacted by big events, road closures or other things happening in a city.
Uber claim the data is anonymized and aggregated into the same types of geographic zones that transportation planner use to evaluate which parts of cities need expanded infrastructure without release any personal privacy information.
https://movement.uber.com/cities
https://www.wired.com/2017/01/uber-movement-traffic-data-tool/