Hitchhiking Rides Dataset: Two decades of crowd-sourced records on stochastic traveling
Paper • 2506.21946 • Published • 1
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Cannot get the split names for the config 'default' of the dataset.
Exception: SplitsNotFoundError
Message: The split names could not be parsed from the dataset config.
Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "tsfile/tsfile_py_cpp.pyx", line 567, in tsfile.tsfile_py_cpp.tsfile_reader_new_c
tsfile.exceptions.FileOpenError: 28:
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/inspect.py", line 286, in get_dataset_config_info
for split_generator in builder._split_generators(
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^
StreamingDownloadManager(base_path=builder.base_path, download_config=download_config)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
)
^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/tsfile/tsfile.py", line 271, in _split_generators
scan = self._scan_metadata(all_files)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/tsfile/tsfile.py", line 318, in _scan_metadata
with self._open_reader(file) as reader:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/tsfile/tsfile.py", line 742, in _open_reader
return TsFileReader(file)
File "tsfile/tsfile_reader.pyx", line 323, in tsfile.tsfile_reader.TsFileReaderPy.__init__
SystemError: <class '_weakrefset.WeakSet'> returned a result with an exception set
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/split_names.py", line 68, in compute_split_names_from_streaming_response
for split in get_dataset_split_names(
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^
path=dataset,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
config_name=config,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
token=hf_token,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
)
^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/inspect.py", line 340, in get_dataset_split_names
info = get_dataset_config_info(
path,
...<6 lines>...
**config_kwargs,
)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/inspect.py", line 291, in get_dataset_config_info
raise SplitsNotFoundError("The split names could not be parsed from the dataset config.") from err
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The Hitchhiking Rides Dataset (TsFile)
Apache TsFile version of Hitchwiki/hitchhiking-rides-dataset.
Overview
The largest dataset of crowd-sourced real-world hitchhiking rides, collected
from maps.hitchwiki.org, liftershalte.info, hitchwiki.org, and
hitchmap.com since 2005. Each record is a hitchhiking ride report, updated
weekly. Described in
Hitchhiking Rides Dataset: Two decades of crowd-sourced records on stochastic traveling.
- Records: 81,838 source rides
- Rows: 64,424 after conversion (see notes below)
- Time span: 2005 onward
Schema (TsFile structure)
This is an event-log dataset, not a numeric measurement stream: only rating is
numeric; the nested fields are stored as JSON strings in the source. It is
converted with:
- Time (INT64, milliseconds) —
submission_time(ISO timestamp, UTC). - source (TAG) — the platform the ride came from (5 values).
- license (TAG) — the record's data license (4 values).
- rating (INT64) — the ride rating (the sole numeric FIELD).
- stops / hitchhikers / comment / signals / occupants / mode_of_transportation /
ride / no_ride (STRING) — kept verbatim as JSON/free text; parse them back
with
json.loads()where the source stores JSON.
Conversion notes
version(constant"0.0.0"),declined_rides(all-null) andimages(all-null) are dropped.- 7,246 rows with a null/unparsable
submission_timeare omitted (no time axis). submission_timeis not unique per ride (bulk submissions share a timestamp), so 10,168 rides that share the same(source, license, submission_time)are collapsed to the first — TsFile requires a unique(TAG, Time)key. The full 81,838-ride list remains available in the original dataset.
Usage
Install the Apache TsFile Python SDK (pip install tsfile) and read a converted file:
from pathlib import Path
from tsfile import TsFileReader
path = Path("hitchhiking_rides.tsfile")
with TsFileReader(str(path)) as reader:
schemas = reader.get_all_table_schemas()
print("tables:", list(schemas))
table_name = next(iter(schemas))
table = schemas[table_name]
columns = [column.get_column_name() for column in table.get_columns()]
print("columns:", columns)
field_names = [
column.get_column_name()
for column in table.get_columns()
if column.get_column_name() not in {"Time", "time"}
]
if field_names:
with reader.query_table(table_name, field_names[:3], batch_size=1024) as result:
batch = result.read_arrow_batch()
if batch is not None:
print(batch.to_pandas().head())
Source & license
- Original dataset: https://huggingface.co/datasets/Hitchwiki/hitchhiking-rides-dataset
- Author / publisher: Hitchwiki (curated by Till Wenke)
- Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21946
- License: ODbL (parts CC BY-SA 4.0 — see the original card)
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