Travel-time Maps

Transport maps and timetables help people work out how to get from A to B using buses, trains and other forms of public transport. In their Travel Time Maps, Chris Lightfoot and Tom Steinberg use colours and contour lines they show how long it takes to travel between one particular place and every other place in the area, using public transport. They also show the areas from which no such journey is possible, because the services are not good enough.

Cambridge is a small city with a lot of bus services, so it is not very surprising that the whole of the city center and much of the suburbs are within twenty to thirty minutes’ travel of the destination, even including waiting and walking time. Moving further out, though, the picture changes

Related to Distance by the Time of Travel

Relation to my thesis: Interested in ways to visualize mobility. The authors explain the methods they used.