District of Columbia Parking Violation Locations from October 2009

October 2009 parking citation locations in the District of Columbia, geocoded to street segment centroids. The data contains summarized ticket counts based on time of day, week of year, year, and category of violation, originally sourced from the eTIMS meter work order management system.

Use Cases

• Analyze spatial patterns of parking violations using geocoded street segment centroids to identify high-enforcement zones.
• Model temporal trends in ticket counts based on time of day and week of year for resource allocation planning.
• Investigate frequency distributions across different categories of violation to understand common infractions.
• Support Vision Zero initiatives by correlating parking enforcement data with traffic safety metrics.

Strengths

• Data is geocoded to street segment centroids, providing precise spatial coordinates for analysis.
• Contains summarized counts across multiple temporal dimensions: time of day, week of year, and year.
• Sourced from the authoritative District Department of Motor Vehicles eTIMS system.

Limitations

• Limited temporal scope to a single month (October 2009), restricting longitudinal analysis.
• Data is aggregated as summarized counts, lacking individual ticket-level details.
• Potential spatial bias as data is visualized and aggregated at street segment centroids, not exact violation locations.

Provenance

Source

District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) and partner agencies via the District Department of Motor Vehicles eTIMS system.

Collection Method

Extracted from eTIMS, loaded into DC GIS, and geocoded to street segment level by the Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO).

Time Range

October 2009

Freshness

Data is historically fixed to October 2009, though metadata was last updated in March 2026.

Geography

District of Columbia, United States.