District of Columbia Parking Violations for March 2022

March 2022 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 spatial patterns of parking violations using geocoded street segment coordinates for urban planning.
• Model ticket count frequency based on time of day and week of year to predict enforcement hotspots.
• Segment violation data by category of violation to assess enforcement focus areas.

Strengths

• Data is geocoded to the street segment level, enabling precise spatial analysis.
• Includes multiple file formats like CSV and GEOJSON for different analytical workflows.
• Published under a permissive CC-BY license for reuse.

Limitations

• Sample data and specific column definitions are unavailable, complicating initial data exploration.
• Contains only data from March 2022, limiting longitudinal or seasonal trend analysis.
• Data size and row count are unknown, making it difficult to assess computational requirements.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Geocoded by the Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO) and visualized using street segment centroid coordinates.

Time Range

March 2022

Freshness

Data last updated in March 2026, but the temporal coverage is specifically for March 2022.

Geography

District of Columbia, United States