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    • Minnesota Department of Transportation Mobile Observation

    Metadata Updated: March 16, 2025

    These data files were obtained from Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) under the Integrated Mobile Observation (IMO) contract. The instrumented vehicles include snowplows (made by Sterling and International) and light-duty pickups (made by Ford). The snowplows travel pre-determined routes in 12-hour shifts during winter-weather events, carrying out winter-maintenance activities appropriate for the event and MnDOT rules of practice (snow-plowing, applying chemicals, etc.). The light-duty vehicles travel throughout the state. Data from May 2013 onward is included. The files include VaiX records, DjX records, CanX records, ObdY records, vehicle location and status and store-and-forward messages.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: See this page for license information.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date March 16, 2025
    Data Update Frequency irregular

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from DOT Socrata Data.json

    Other Data Resources

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date March 16, 2025
    Publisher US Department of Transportation
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://data.transportation.gov/api/views/kn5d-ptj9
    Data First Published 2013-05-15
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2013-05-15
    Category Automobiles
    Public Access Level public
    Data Update Frequency irregular
    Bureau Code 021:15
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://data.transportation.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Data Quality True
    Harvest Object Id 5a253ec0-7b80-4dba-b995-15a513335870
    Harvest Source Id a776e4b7-8221-443c-85ed-c5ee5db0c360
    Harvest Source Title DOT Socrata Data.json
    Homepage URL https://data.transportation.gov/d/kn5d-ptj9
    License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
    Old Spatial Minnesota
    Program Code 021:013
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 1f46b281507fae6e0a1c36ef8c0903b47705b8e4e3fec6330feb26571fd1aa23
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial {"type":"Polygon","coordinates":-97.2294,43.4981,-97.2294,49.3717,-89.5307,49.3717,-89.5307,43.4981,-97.2294,43.4981}
    Temporal 2013-06-26/2015-12-21

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