ProTrack Project Initiation Point data contains locations for approved roadway, sidewalk, alley, and marking rehabilitation projects managed by the District Department of Transportation (DDOT). The dataset is published by the District of Columbia under a CC-BY-4.0 license and was last updated on March 25, 2026. It is used to associate project locations with solicitation and contract numbers during the project initiation phase.
Use Cases
- Prioritizing road repair schedules based on community requests and quality assessments mentioned in the description.
- Mapping the geographic distribution of planned transportation infrastructure work.
- Analyzing the relationship between project initiation points and subsequent contract awards.
- Integrating project location data with other urban datasets for comprehensive city planning.
Strengths
- Data is provided in multiple geospatial formats (CSV, GEOJSON, KML, OGC WMS, ArcGIS REST API) for flexibility.
- Explicitly links project initiation to the official solicitation and contract workflow.
- Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
- Source
- District Department of Transportation (DDOT), District of Columbia
- Collection Method
- Likely extracted from the ProTrack+ project management system.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-03-25 08:13:53.154123; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Washington D.C., District of Columbia