Ride-hailing through the COVID-19 Pandemic in New York City

We explored the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on ride hailing trips in New York City between February 1, 2019 and July 31, 2021. Using negative binomial regression models, we quantified the effects of COVID-19 indicators on daily ride hailing trip counts. We found that a 1% increase in the number of new cases and vaccines administered were associated with 16.0% decrease and 0.8% increase in trip counts, respectively. Since the initial drop of 258.2% during the stay-at-home phase of the pandemic, trip counts recovered in the subsequent phases albeit still lower than pre-pandemic levels at -85.0% and -38.7% during the reopening and vaccination phases, respectively.