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.

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, …