DOT Traffic Speeds: Real-Time Link Data for New York City
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Description
DOT Traffic Speeds likely contains real-time or historical traffic speed and travel time data for road links in New York City. The data is published on the data.cityofnewyork.us platform via Socrata and was last updated on 2026-04-03. Columns such as LINK_NAME, BOROUGH, SPEED, TRAVEL_TIME, and ENCODED_POLY_LINE suggest it includes geographic and temporal traffic performance metrics.
Use Cases
Analyzing real-time traffic congestion patterns using SPEED and TRAVEL_TIME columns (from 13 available columns).
Mapping traffic flow by borough using BOROUGH and ENCODED_POLY_LINE columns for geospatial visualization.
Monitoring the operational status of specific road segments using LINK_NAME and STATUS columns.
Correlating traffic conditions with time by utilizing the DATA_AS_OF timestamp column.
Strengths
Published on the official data.cityofnewyork.us platform via Socrata.
Includes 13 columns with geospatial (ENCODED_POLY_LINE) and temporal (DATA_AS_OF) attributes.
Available in multiple machine-readable formats including CSV, JSON, XML, and RDF.
Limitations
Metadata is minimal; actual content requires verification after download.
Row count and temporal coverage are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to its New York City source.
Provenance
Source
data.cityofnewyork.us
Freshness
Last updated 2026-04-03 21:27:04; freshness should be verified.
Geography
New York City, inferred from BOROUGH column and organization domain.
License is unknown; terms of use should be verified before application.