A public passenger vehicle is a vehicle used for the transportation of passengers for hire by a public chauffeur. The list of public passenger vehicles includes licensed taxicabs (medallions), liveries, ambulances, medicars, charter-sightseeing buses, horse-drawn carriages, and pedicabs. For more information, please see https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/bacp/provdrs/vehic.html.
This dataset has the following 17 columns:
| Column Name | API Column Name | Data Type | Description | Sample Values |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle Type | vehicle_type | text | Type of Public Passenger Vehicle license issued | Taxi Livery Charter Sightseeing Ambulance Medicar view top 100 |
| Public Vehicle Number | public_vehicle_number | number | Assigned License Number. For Taxi type licenses, this number is also the corresponding medallion number. | 23 9 36 55 14 view top 100 |
| Status | status | text | Status of the license. | ACTIVE VIOLATION INACTIVE SURRENDER RESERVED view top 100 |
| Vehicle Make | vehicle_make | text | Make of the vehicle associated with the license. | TOYOTA FORD LINCOLN CHEVROLET CADILLAC view top 100 |
| Vehicle Model | vehicle_model | text | Model of the vehicle associated with the license. | CAMRY PRIUS SUBURBAN ESCAPE NAVIGATOR L view top 100 |
| Vehicle Model Year | vehicle_model_year | number | Model year of the vehicle associated with the license. | 2014 2023 2013 2012 2022 view top 100 |
| Vehicle Color | vehicle_color | text | Color of the vehicle associated with the license. | WHITE BLACK YELLOW GREEN BLUE/WHITE view top 100 |
| Vehicle Fuel Source | vehicle_fuel_source | text | Type of fuel used by the vehicle associated with the license. | Gasoline Hybrid Pedal Flex Fuel Diesel view top 100 |
| Wheelchair Accessible | wheelchair_accessible | text | Only applies to Taxi type licenses. Yes or No to indicate if the taxi vehicle is a wheelchair accessible vehicle (WAV) or not. | N Y view top 100 |
| Company Name | company_name | text | The legal owner/holder of the license. | CITY OF CHICAGO BACP SUPERIOR AIR-GROUND AMBULANCE SERVICE, INC. D M LIMO INC. MEDICAL EXPRESS AMBULANCE SERV TRT TRANSPORTATION, INC. view top 100 |
| Address | address | text | Company address | 3800 N. MILWAUKEE AVE. 9696 W. FOSTER AVE. 5550 N. ELSTON AVE. 4536 N. ELSTON AVE. 4626 W. CORNELIA AVE. view top 100 |
| City | city | text | Company city | CHICAGO ELMHURST SKOKIE TINLEY PARK ORLAND PARK view top 100 |
| State | state | text | Company state | IL view top 100 |
| ZIP Code | zip_code | text | Company ZIP Code | 60630 60641 60656 60659 60645 view top 100 |
| Taxi Affiliation | taxi_affiliation | text | Only applies to Taxi type licenses. The association the taxi vehicle is affiliated with. | DIS-AFFILIATED Independent1 Flash Cab Co EXPIRED AFFILIATION Yellow Cab Association view top 100 |
| Taxi Medallion License Management | taxi_medallion_license_management | text | Only applies to Taxi type licenses. Description of who manages the taxicab and medallion license. | Owner Manager Owner-Operator Medallion Leasing and Management, Inc. Star North Management LLC Sun Financial Services, Inc. view top 100 |
| Record ID | record_id | text | A unique ID for each license in this dataset. It is a combination of the Public Vehicle Number and Vehicle Type. | 15978Charter Sightseeing 5725Ambulance 71082Livery 5792Taxi 13122Medicar view top 100 |