Parking Violation Locations in Washington D.C. for August 2018

Parking citation locations in the District of Columbia, issued by the Metropolitan Police Department and partner agencies. Data is geocoded to street segments and visualized using centroid coordinates. The dataset contains summarized ticket counts based on time of day, week, year, and violation category.

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 segments for spatial analysis of traffic enforcement hotspots.
• Examine patterns in the category of violation to understand common infractions in different city zones.
• Use street segment centroid coordinates for visualizing ticket density in urban planning applications.

Strengths

• Data is geocoded to the street segment level, providing precise spatial coordinates.
• Includes summarized ticket counts across multiple temporal dimensions (time of day, week, year).
• Covers violations from multiple authorized agencies including MPD and DDOT.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats including GeoJSON and KML.

Limitations

• Sample data and specific row/column counts are unavailable, limiting assessment of dataset scale.
• Data is limited to a single month (August 2018), restricting longitudinal trend analysis.
• Information is summarized, so individual ticket-level details may not be present.

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, geocoded by OCTO, and loaded into DC GIS.

Time Range

August 2018.

Freshness

Last updated in March 2026, but the underlying data covers August 2018.

Geography

District of Columbia, United States.