More than 75 percent of available data has been added into the DEP during its first four Epics (three-month development cycles). Data incorporated into the DEP includes:

  • VDOT OpenTMS (Device Status, Incidents, Congestion, Special Events, Work Zones, Detectors)
  • VDOT Traffic Monitoring System (TMS) Wavetronix Detectors
  • Waze Incidents
  • INRIX Real-Time and Historical Speed and Travel Time
  • VRE Rail General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) and GTFS-Real Time (RT)
  • VRE Parking Occupancy and Capacity
  • VDOT Parking Lot Inventory and Typical Occupancy
  • Road Weather Information Systems (RWIS) Environmental Sensor Stations (ESS) Measurements
  • WMATA Bus and Rail GTFS and GTFS-RT
  • WMATA Bus, Rail, and Station Incidents
  • WMATA Parking Lot Capacity
  • Bus GTFS and GTFS-RT data from PRTC Omni Bus, Arlington Transit, Alexandria DASH, and Fairfax Connector (CUE Bus data will soon be added)
  • Bus GTFS data from Loudoun County Transit and FRED
  • Capital Bikeshare Station Metadata and Bike/Free Bike Status
  • Transurban I-495/95 Express Lanes (Incidents, events, gate controllers, DMS, detectors)
  • Toll Rates (I-66 inside the beltway, I-495/95)

Hats off and a big thanks to Transurban, operator of the Express Lanes on I-95/I-495, for ensuring that traffic and incident data on the Express Lanes is available to the DEP.

[To learn more about the Data-Exchange Platform, see last year’s article on the DEP and visit its technical landing page at https://rm3p.ritis.org.]