District of Columbia Parking Violation Locations for January 2016

January 2016 parking citation locations in the District of Columbia, issued by the Metropolitan Police Department and partner agencies. Data includes summarized ticket counts based on time of day, week, 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 street segment centroids to visualize spatial patterns of ticket counts.
• Examine distributions across violation category types to understand common infractions.

Strengths

• Data is geocoded to street segment centroids for spatial analysis.
• Includes summarized counts across multiple temporal dimensions: time of day, week of year, and year.
• Covers violations from multiple enforcement agencies including MPD and DDOT.

Limitations

• Sample data and specific row/column counts are unavailable for assessing dataset scale.
• Data is limited to a single month (January 2016), restricting longitudinal analysis.
• Original data is aggregated into summarized counts, limiting access to raw, individual citation records.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Data geocoded by the Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO) to street segment level and visualized using centroid coordinates.

Time Range

January 2016.

Freshness

Last updated March 2026, but underlying data is from January 2016.

Geography

District of Columbia, United States.