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    Moving Violations Summary for 2014

    Metadata Updated: February 5, 2025

    The Vision Zero data contained in this layer pertain to moving violations issued by the District of Columbia's Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) and partner agencies with the authority to do so. For example, the District Department of Transportation's (DDOT) traffic control officers who prevent congestion through enforcement and control at intersections throughout the District. Locations of moving violations are identified from a database provided by the District Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV).
    The data is summarized by ticket counts based on time of day, week of year, year, and category of violation. The summary form was created as a series of aggregated street segment data, in order to view spatial patterns on a weekly basis. This is a temporal crosstab of violation types (defined below) by week and time of day (ranges defined below).
    Users are able to query by week to get a DC-wide yearly and weekly perspective on over 40 different combinations of violations.  Create interesting street segment heat maps which can get quite specific to identify patterns and answer questions. For example, where are the majority of Unsafe Operator moving violations in the AM Rush of 2014? These data will give up to 52 distinct street segments of information – one for each week of the year.


    Field Definitions:

    Identification 

    • Weeknumber – Week of Year, based on a Sunday start of the week
    • StreetSeg – Street Segment ID, corresponds to the DDOT street centerline ‘StreetSegID’ field
    • Registered Name – Street name
    • StreetType – Type of Street (Road, Ave, etc)
    • Quad – DC Quadrant 
    • FromAddLeft – Unit number start (for approximating this segment’s block) 
    • ToAddLeft – Unit number end (for approximating this segment’s block

    Moving

    • Low Speeding (Under 20mph) - speed violations under 20mph
    • High Speeding (above 20mph) - speed violations over 20 mph including reckless driving
    • Unsafe Driving -violations for driving maneuvers unsafe to traffic 
    • Unsafe Vehicle - violations for vehicle characteristics unsafe to traffic
    • Unsafe Operator- violations for operator (driver) characteristics unsafe to traffic
    • Other- miscellaneous violations

    Important Notes:  Records which could not be associated to a street centerline segment (StreetSeg) were excluded from these summariesRecords which do not have a time of day associated with the violation were excluded from these summaries.

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: Creative Commons Attribution

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date April 30, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date February 5, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from DC data

    Other Data Resources

    Additional Metadata

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    Metadata Created Date April 30, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date February 5, 2025
    Publisher City of Washington, DC
    Maintainer
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    Data First Published 2016-02-10T17:37:28.000Z
    Data Last Modified 2022-02-10T19:17:44.000Z
    Category geospatial
    Public Access Level public
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    Harvest Source Title DC data
    Homepage URL https://opendata.dc.gov/datasets/DCGIS::moving-violations-summary-for-2014
    License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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