District of Columbia Parking Violations for July 2020

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, originally extracted from the eTIMS meter work order management system and geocoded to street segment centroids.

Use Cases

• Analyze spatial patterns of parking violations using geocoded street segment centroids for urban planning.
• Model temporal trends in ticket counts based on time of day and week of year data.
• Identify common categories of parking violations to inform traffic enforcement policy.

Strengths

• Data is geocoded to the street segment level, providing precise spatial coordinates.
• Includes summarized counts across multiple temporal dimensions (time of day, week of year, year).
• Published under a permissive Creative Commons Attribution (cc-by) license.

Limitations

• Data is limited to a single month (July 2020), offering a narrow temporal snapshot.
• The sample size and total row count are unknown, limiting assessment of statistical power.
• Data is aggregated into summarized counts, losing granular detail on individual citations.

Provenance

Source

District of Columbia's Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) and partner agencies.

Collection Method

Extracted from the District Department of Motor Vehicle's eTIMS system, geocoded by the Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO).

Time Range

July 2020

Freshness

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Geography

District of Columbia, United States.