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The Hitchhiking Rides Dataset

Here the dataset described in Hitchhiking Rides Dataset: Two decades of crowd-sourced records on stochastic traveling is published.

Download the full dataset. To better understand the format that is used read about the Hitchhiking Data Standard.

This dataset is updated weekly with the latest rides via https://github.com/Hitchwiki/maps.hitchwiki.org and contains rides from all hitchhiking apps listed here.

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

If you found something insightful while looking at this dataset, please share it with the hitchhiking community.

Dataset Details

Dataset Description

  • Curated by: Till Wenke
  • 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
  • parts of the data stem from hitchmap.com and were published under ODbL, see their copyright notice

Dataset Sources

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

Data was fetched from the different sources and published here running this script.

Uses

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

General research towards hitchhiking as a cultural phenomenon.

Data Science Uses

Dataset Structure

The structure that this dataset follows is described in the Hitchhiking Data Standard.

Dataset Creation & Bias, Risks, and Limitations

A dataset paper was published on arXiv to address the above questions.

Citation

BibTeX:

@article{wenke2025hitchhiking,
  title={Hitchhiking Rides Dataset: Two decades of crowd-sourced records on stochastic traveling},
  author={Wenke, Till},
  journal={arXiv},
  year={2025},
  url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21946}
}

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