Data from Driver API

[orlandombaa]

Hello
I have a doubt about the Driver API. I am making a study of mobility patters so I would like to get big amount of data about trips made in a particulat city such as: speed, time, path followed, star and end location among others. The Driver API is availabe to give me this kind of information in big quantities?
I have read some of the documentes of Uber developers but is still not clear for me and I could not set up the API in R so I haven´t bee available to see be my own the data I can get.

Thank you.

[datawookie]

Hi!

The ubeR packages does not currently support the Driver API because this requires a driver login, to which I don't have access. I'd be happy to collabodarate with you to include the Driver API into the ubeR package though.

Also, just looking at the documentation for the Driver API quickly I'm not sure that you would be able to get the data for a range of drivers. It looks like you can only get data for the authenticated driver.

Regards, @datawookie.

[orlandombaa]

Hello @datawookie thank you for your answer.

That makes more sense. So the data that I can acces using uberR package is from my personal trips as a custumer?

by chance do you know if there is another way of get that kind of data? now I am watching https://movement.uber.com/ it is an internal program to release data but ther are just a few cities. I wrote them to see if there is a way to get from another cities where they operate.

I will be happy to colaborate to include Driver API in the package but my field is more related to transport planning I don´t know so much about the functioning of an API, sorry. But I am making a team with people of computer sciences I will suggest the task to them.

Thank you,
Orlando

[orlandombaa]

Hello @datawookie I have another question, if you dont mind. Im trying to make an OD cost time that is basically a matrix with the time from many origin and many destination (some thousends or ten of thounsdens of requests ) I see that in the library there is a function for ask the giving the coordinates from origin and destination.
currently theres is a way to introduce a matrix of coordiantes instead a single par of them ?

thank you.

best regards,
Orlando