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Uber/Lyft Surge Multiplier Sampling

surge price multiplier sampled at fixed times/locations in top metros

Feed detail
Measures
surge price multiplier sampled at fixed times/locations in top metros
Source
Uber/Lyft rider apps (no public API; app-layer sampling) - borderline ToS
Access
scrape-hostile
Cadence
intradayupdates multiple times a day
Thesis
Sustained surge elevation signals driver-supply shortage, a leading indicator of rideshare driver churn and gig-labor market tightness
Maps to
UBER, LYFT equity, gig-labor CPI proxies
Crowdedness
commodity
Tier
tC
Ban-risk
ban:high
Where this stands

This is a catalogued data feed with a research idea attached, not a validated edge. Being listed here means it has a specific source and a one-sentence causal mechanism mapped to what it should move — it doesn’t mean it has cleared the five-stage validation gate (point-in-time hygiene, out-of-sample holdout, multiple-testing correction, and the portfolio-layer backstop). As of today, every score on this site is prior-only; zero signals in the catalog have been promoted to “measured” status. See the methodology page for the full validation process and current counts.

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