District of Columbia Parking Violations for May 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 of year, year, and violation category. Data was geocoded to street segment centroids for spatial analysis.

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 segment centroids for spatial hot spot detection.
• Examine patterns in violation category to understand common infraction types.
• Use summarized ticket counts for temporal trend analysis across the specified year and month.

Strengths

• Data is geocoded to street segment centroids, enabling spatial visualization and analysis.
• Contains summarized ticket counts across multiple temporal dimensions (time of day, week of year, year).
• Sourced from official District of Columbia agencies including MPD and DDOT.

Limitations

• The specific row count, column names, and sample data are unavailable for assessing dataset scale and structure.
• Data is limited to a single month (May 2018), restricting longitudinal analysis.
• Summarized counts may obscure individual citation details available in the original source system.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Data extracted from eTIMS, geocoded by the Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO) to street segments, and visualized at centroids.

Time Range

May 2018.

Freshness

Last updated March 2026, though the underlying data covers May 2018.

Geography

District of Columbia, United States.