District of Columbia Parking Violations for February 2018

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

Use Cases

• Analyze ticket count patterns by time of day and week of year to identify peak enforcement periods.
• Map violation locations using geocoded street segment centroids for spatial analysis of enforcement hotspots.
• Study the distribution of violation categories to understand common parking infractions.

Strengths

• Data is geocoded to the street segment level, enabling precise spatial analysis.
• Includes summarized ticket counts across multiple temporal dimensions (time of day, week, year).
• Aggregated from the official eTIMS meter work order management system.

Limitations

• Contains only data from a single month (February 2018), limiting longitudinal analysis.
• The specific row count and column features are unknown, hindering assessment of dataset scale and detail.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Data was geocoded to street segment centroids by the Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO).

Time Range

February 2018

Freshness

Last updated March 2026, but the underlying data is from February 2018.

Geography

District of Columbia