README.md

---
license: odbl
task_categories:
- tabular-regression
language:
- en
- fr
- de
- nl
tags:
- mobility
- hitchhiking
- transport
pretty_name: Largest Dataset of Hitchhiking Rides
size_categories:
- 10K<n<100K
dataset_info:
  features:
  - name: stops
    list:
    - name: arrival_time
      dtype: string
    - name: departure_time
      dtype: string
    - name: location
      struct:
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        dtype: bool
      - name: latitude
        dtype: float64
      - name: longitude
        dtype: float64
    - name: waiting_duration
      dtype: string
  - name: rating
    dtype: int64
  - name: hitchhikers
    list:
    - name: gender
      dtype: 'null'
    - name: hitchhiking_since
      dtype: 'null'
    - name: languages
      dtype: 'null'
    - name: nickname
      dtype: string
    - name: origin_country
      dtype: 'null'
    - name: origin_location
      dtype: 'null'
    - name: reasons_to_hitchhike
      dtype: 'null'
    - name: was_driver
      dtype: 'null'
    - name: year_of_birth
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  - name: comment
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  - name: signals
    list:
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      dtype: 'null'
    - name: asking_languages
      dtype: 'null'
    - name: duration
      dtype: 'null'
    - name: methods
      sequence: string
    - name: sign_content
      dtype: 'null'
    - name: sign_languages
      dtype: 'null'
    - name: total_solicited
      dtype: 'null'
  - name: occupants
    dtype: 'null'
  - name: mode_of_transportation
    dtype: 'null'
  - name: ride
    dtype: 'null'
  - name: declined_rides
    dtype: 'null'
  - name: source
    dtype: string
  - name: license
    dtype: string
  - name: submission_time
    dtype: string
  splits:
  - name: train
    num_bytes: 14602124
    num_examples: 63291
  download_size: 6888947
  dataset_size: 14602124
configs:
- config_name: default
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: data/train-*
---
# The Hitchhiking Rides Dataset

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Here the dataset described in [Hitchhiking Rides Dataset: Two decades of crowd-sourced records on stochastic traveling](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21946) is published.

This is the largest dataset of crowd-sourced real-world hitchhiking rides.
Data has been collected on online platforms such das `liftershalte.info`, `hitchwiki.org` and `hitchmap.com` starting in 2005 until today.

## Dataset Details

### Dataset Description

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- **Curated by:** [Till Wenke](https://huggingface.co/tillwenke)
- **License:** Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL)

### Credit

- parts of the data stem from `hitchwiki.org` and were published under CC BY-SA 4.0, see their [home page](https://hitchwiki.org/en/Main_Page)
- parts of the data stem from `hitchmap.com` and were published under ODbL, see their [copyright notice](https://hitchmap.com/copyright.html)

### Dataset Sources

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Sources are given for each entry in the respective dataset column.

Data was fetched from the different sources and published here running [this scrip](https://github.com/Hitchwiki/hitchhiking-data/blob/main/analysis/publications/2025%20-%20Wenke/publish_dataset.ipynb).

## Uses

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To inform hitchhikers to make more data-based decisions on the road.

General research towards hitchhiking as a cultural phenomenon.

### Data Science Uses

- Waiting time predition - regression task e.g. in [Heatchmap: A Gaussian process approach to predict hitchhiking waiting times](https://tillwenke.github.io/2024/04/21/hitchmap-gp.html)

## Dataset Structure

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The structure that this dataset follows is described in the [Hitchhiking Data Standard](https://github.com/Hitchwiki/hitchhiking_data_standard).

## Dataset Creation & Bias, Risks, and Limitations

A dataset paper was published on [arXiv]() to address the above questions.


## Citation

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**BibTeX:**

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## Dataset Card Authors

- [Till Wenke](https://huggingface.co/tillwenke)