Traffic Datasets for Cambridge, MA

Downloaded from the City of Cambridge's open data portal in March 2017. This repo contains most of the traffic datasets from the portal at the time.

Datasets+files include...

  • average_daily_traffic, 1972 - 2017

    • WARNING: Some cells are blank; not every year has data or AM/PM averages.
    • NOTE: Sanitized version contains geographic coordinates, max per row, min per row, and mean per row. WARNING: May need to add year label because it's possible not every year was in the original dataset.
  • commercial_parking

  • intersections

    • NOTE: Sanitized version contains only geographic coordinates.
  • metered_parking

    • NOTE: Sanitized version contains only meter-ID's and geographic coordinates.
  • municipal_parking

  • parking_tickets_14_16, Jan 2014 - Jun 2016, (81 MB)

    • NOTE: Several sanitized versions.

      sanitized_parking_tickets.csv contains only the geographic coordinates of every parking ticket in the original dataset.

      The files labeled sanitized_tickets-[VIOLATION TYPE].csv contain the geographic coordinates of every parking ticket of a particular type of violation from the original dataset. Where applicable, different violation types have been grouped together for similarity.

  • police_crash_data, Jan 2015 - Jan 2016

    • NOTE: Sanitized version contains only information from crashes involving two vehicles. Information includes geographic coordinates and the two vehicle types (e.g. auto, truck).
  • snow_emergency_tow_routes

Look into...

  • land use map - Do public buildings require more parking than residential areas?
  • fire hydrants - Correlation with parking tickets?