Hitchhiking Rides Dataset

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.

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

Uses

To inform hitchhikers to make more data-based decisions on the road. General research towards hitchhiking as a cultural phenomenon.