District of Columbia parking citation data from April 2021, issued by the Metropolitan Police Department and partner agencies. Locations are geocoded to street segments and summarized by time of day, week, and violation category, with data extracted from the eTIMS meter work order management system.
Use Cases
- Analyze parking violation frequency by time of day and week of year to identify peak enforcement periods.
- Map geocoded citation locations to street segment centroids for spatial analysis of enforcement hotspots.
- Examine patterns in the category of violation across different areas of the District.
Strengths
- Data is geocoded to the street segment level for precise spatial analysis.
- Includes multiple file formats like CSV and GEOJSON for flexible access.
- Published under a permissive CC-BY license.
Limitations
- The dataset is limited to a single month (April 2021), restricting longitudinal analysis.
- Sample data and specific row/column counts are unavailable for assessing scale.
- Data is visualized using street segment centroids, not exact violation coordinates.
Provenance
- Source
- District of Columbia's Metropolitan Police Department and partner agencies.
- Collection Method
- Extracted from the District Department of Motor Vehicle's eTIMS system and geocoded by the Office of the Chief Technology Officer.
- Time Range
- April 2021
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- District of Columbia, United States