DC Moving Violation Summaries by Week and Time of Day

A summary of over 50 different moving violation types issued by the District of Columbia's Metropolitan Police Department and partner agencies. The data is aggregated by week of the year and time of day ranges, enabling analysis of spatial and temporal patterns. Records without a time of day or street segment association were excluded from the summaries.

Use Cases

• Analyze weekly patterns of specific violation types across 26 distinct street segments to identify high-incidence corridors.
• Create temporal heat maps by querying violation counts aggregated by week and time of day ranges.
• Compare the frequency of over 50 violation type combinations to determine the most common infractions for a given week.

Strengths

• Covers over 50 distinct combinations of moving violation types for analytical depth.
• Aggregated data provides a weekly and time-of-day perspective for temporal pattern analysis.
• Data is associated with 26 distinct street segments, enabling spatial analysis.

Limitations

• Records lacking a time of day or a street segment association were excluded, potentially creating a coverage bias.
• Data is presented as a summarized temporal crosstab, not as raw incident-level records.
• The temporal coverage is limited to a single year (2012), restricting longitudinal analysis.

Provenance

Source

District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department and partner agencies, via District Department of Motor Vehicles database.

Collection Method

Violation locations identified from DMV database and summarized into aggregated street segment data by week and time of day.

Time Range

2012

Freshness

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Geography

District of Columbia, United States.