Transportation

What Driving-Time Maps Say About Your City

These “isochrone maps” offer an interesting look at similarities and differences in road design, and their effects on travel.
Peter Kerpedjiev

If you live in a city where public transit options are sparse, or one where they’re temporarily out of service, you might have to use a car to get around. If that’s the case, these new maps can help you gauge how long it’ll take you to get to a given point—inside or out of your city—by car.

Here are some reasons the Vienna-based doctoral student Peter Kerpedjiev made these maps: