Transportation
What You Can Learn Watching the Movements of an Entire Public Transportation System
An open-source, animated map features 249 global mass transit networks.
A German university student has developed a fun new tool for visualizing public transit in a more system-oriented way.
Transit Visualization Client, or TRAVIC, takes public data from 249 transportation networks, across five continents, and puts them onto one, animated map. The only caveat is that some data point movements correspond to schedules, not real-time realities, so think of it as a quasi-utopia of uninterrupted transit. Here’s a shot of a Washington, D.C. Red Line train making its way toward Metro Center earlier this week.