District of Columbia Parking Violations from August 2011

District of Columbia data provides parking citation locations from August 2011, issued by the Metropolitan Police Department and partner agencies. The dataset contains ticket counts summarized by time of day, week of year, and violation category, geocoded to street segment centroids.

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 high-violation zones.
• Study patterns across violation categories to inform traffic control and congestion prevention policies.

Strengths

• Data is geocoded to street segment level for precise spatial analysis.
• Provides summarized ticket counts across multiple temporal dimensions.
• Includes violations from multiple enforcement agencies like MPD and DDOT.

Limitations

• Limited temporal coverage to a single month (August 2011), preventing longitudinal trend analysis.
• Sample data and specific row/column counts are unavailable for assessing dataset scale.
• Data is aggregated to summarized counts, losing individual citation details.

Provenance

Source

District of Columbia, extracted from the Department of Motor Vehicle's eTIMS system.

Collection Method

Geocoded by the Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO) to street segment centroids after extraction.

Time Range

August 2011.

Freshness

Data is from August 2011, with a metadata update in 2026.

Geography

District of Columbia, United States.