Distance by the Time of Travel


Tom Carden has put together a couple of interactive maps of the London Underground system as a proof of concept to visualize distance by the time of travel.

Shortest paths are used to place the other stations - radius is proportional to time to travel, and angle should be correct for as-the-crow-flies direction on a map. The concentric circles are at 10 minute intervals.

Time Travel1 Time Travel2

Related to Carte de l’Accessibilité des Communes Suisses, Non-geographic Mapping and Personal World Map.

Relation to my thesis: Finding examples to visualize mobility data as time to travel, cost to travel, pain to travel, …

Originally posted by fabien from 7.5th Floor

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