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Seattle 20 Second Freeway

Metadata Updated: January 20, 2026

This set of data files is one of the four test data sets acquired by the USDOT Data Capture and Management program. It contains the following data for the six months from May 1 2011 to October 31 2011: -Raw and cleaned data for traffic detectors deployed by Washington Department of Transportation (WSDOT) along I-5 in Seattle. Data includes 20-second raw reports. -Incident response records from the WSDOT's Washington Incident Tracking System (WITS). -A record of all messages and travel times posted on WSDOT's Active Traffic -Management signs and conventional variable message signs on I-5. -Loop detector volume and occupancy data from arterials parallel to I-5, estimated travel times on arterials derived from Automatic License Plate Reader (ALPR) data, and arterial signal timing plans. -Scheduled and actual bus arrival times from King County Metro buses and Sound Transit buses. -Incidents on I-5 during the six month period -Seattle weather data for the six month period -A dataset of GPS breadcrumb data from commercial trucks described in the documentation is not available to the public because of data ownership and privacy issues.

This legacy dataset was created before data.transportation.gov and is only currently available via the attached file(s). Please contact the dataset owner if there is a need for users to work with this data using the data.transportation.gov analysis features (online viewing, API, graphing, etc.) and the USDOT will consider modifying the dataset to fully integrate in data.transportation.gov.

Note: All extras are attached in Seattle Freeway Travel Times https://data.transportation.gov/Automobiles/Seattle-Freeway-Travel-Times/9v5g-t8u8

Access & Use Information

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 January 20, 2026
Data Update Frequency irregular

Metadata Source

Harvested from DOT Socrata Data.json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
Metadata Updated Date January 20, 2026
Publisher US Department of Transportation
Maintainer
Identifier https://data.transportation.gov/api/views/ixg2-6cni
Data First Published 2012-05-31
Language en-US
Data Last Modified 2012-05-31
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 36cd50f6-c57c-46d2-bb0c-1f2cf0996132
Harvest Source Id a776e4b7-8221-443c-85ed-c5ee5db0c360
Harvest Source Title DOT Socrata Data.json
Homepage URL https://data.transportation.gov/d/ixg2-6cni
License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
Old Spatial Seattle, Washington
Program Code 021:013
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 5fefaf70d6119d1fa0ed3e585632cbbe540800fa3261507941c2073c9a42f4e6
Source Schema Version 1.1
Spatial
Temporal 2011-05-01/2011-10-31

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