# Uber Movement

By [Brandon Donnelly](https://paragraph.com/@brandondonnelly), 2017-01-10

big-data, city-planner, city-planning, data, toronto, transportation, transportation-engineer, uber, uber-movement, uncategorized, urban-transportation

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Uber just announced that it will be providing access to the (anonymized) traffic flow data generated from its over 2 billion rides. This new product is called [Uber Movement](https://movement.uber.com/cities) and the goal is to help cities make better infrastructure decisions. Because indirectly, that also benefits them. 

Here’s an excerpt from [TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/08/uber-debuts-movement-a-new-website-offering-access-to-its-traffic-data/):

> _“We don’t plan infrastructure, we don’t plan cities, we’re never going to do that,” explained Uber Product Manager Jordan Gilbertson in a briefing. Not controlling those aspects of Uber’s business means that it must do whatever possible to influence their improvement indirectly, which Movement can certainly help to do. More efficient transportation in a city in general means more efficient Uber service delivery, happier customers and better usage rates._

You can [request access to Uber Movement today](https://movement.uber.com/cities). But the service will be made available first to city planners and policymakers, and then to the general public. I would be very curious to see what the data reveals for Toronto, as well as for other cities.

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*Originally published on [Brandon Donnelly](https://paragraph.com/@brandondonnelly/uber-movement)*