The 511NY dataset contain historical traffic and transit event information provided by the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT), the New York City Department of Transportation, the New York State Thruway Authority and the Niagara International Transportation Technology Coalition (Buffalo-Niagara Region). The file includes all incidents/accidents, construction projects and special events in New York State that were available on the 511NY traffic and transit map for the time period noted.
This dataset has the following 14 columns:
| Column Name | API Column Name | Data Type | Description | Sample Values |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Event Type | event_type | text | A descriptor identifying the type of event in more detail, such as accident, construction, special event, or weather related. See event description for more detail. | construction delays accident incident roadwork view top 100 |
| Organization Name | organization_name | text | The name of the organization from which the data is being entered. | NYSDOT New Jersey DOT - Statewide Traffic Management Center NJ DOT - STMC NYSDOT - Region 11 New York State Department of Transportation (Region 11) view top 100 |
| Facility Name | facility_name | text | The Interstate or Route on which the event exists. | Garden State Parkway I-278 I-90 - NYS Thruway I-87 - NYS Thruway I-495 view top 100 |
| Direction | direction | text | Direction of travel where the event exists. | Northbound both directions Southbound Eastbound northbound view top 100 |
| City | city | text | City where the event exists. | New York between New York Manhattan Newark at New York view top 100 |
| County | county | text | County where the event exists. | New York Westchester Queens Kings Bergen view top 100 |
| State | state | text | State where the event exists. | NY NJ CT PA VA view top 100 |
| Create Time | create_time | calendar_date | Time the event was created in the 511 system. | 2014-04-02T09:00:00.000 2014-10-30T09:00:00.000 2014-08-20T09:00:00.000 2014-04-01T09:00:00.000 2014-04-03T09:00:00.000 view top 100 |
| Close Time | close_time | calendar_date | Time the event was closed in the 511 system. | 2016-06-17T15:20:00.000 2016-06-17T15:20:10.000 2016-06-17T15:20:09.000 2016-03-31T05:01:00.000 2010-12-07T11:24:53.000 view top 100 |
| Event Description | event_description | text | A description of the event | NYS Thruway Authority CAD: road maintenance operat MTA NYC Transit Subway: due to Construction, Const NYSDOT - Region 8: Accident with Property Damage o NYSDOT - Region 10: Construction, construction on Delays on NJ 3 westbound between Garden State Parkway (Clifton) and US 46 (Clifton) delays due to volume view top 100 |
| Responding Organization Id | responding_organization_id | text | Similar to the ORG_NAME, the name of the organization from which the data is being entered. | CARS New Jersey DOT - Statewide Traffic Management Center NJ DOT - STMC NYSDOT - Region 11 New York State Department of Transportation (Region 11) view top 100 |
| Latitude | latitude | number | Latitude of where the event occurred. | 40.73 40.7 40.74 40.75 40.85 view top 100 |
| Longitude | longitude | number | Longitude of where the event occurred. | -73.99 -73.98 -74 -73.92 -73.8 view top 100 |
| Georeference | georeference | point | Open Data platform-generated geocoding information from supplied address components. Point-type location is the centroid of the address components provided and does not reflect a specific address if the street address component is not provided. Point-type location is supplied in "POINT ( | {"coordinates":[-73.991653,40.749717],"type":"Point"} {"coordinates":[-73.96,40.85],"type":"Point"} {"coordinates":[-73.98,40.75],"type":"Point"} {"coordinates":[-73.991172,40.75032],"type":"Point"} {"coordinates":[-73.99,40.7],"type":"Point"} view top 100 |