The early history of the United States is filled with explorers and pioneers making use of rivers as “rapid transit” to quickly travel through otherwise inhospitable or unknown lands. So it ma…
Ridership projection per route segment, with the Marin Line and Peninsula Line still planned. From Engineering Report: Rapid Transit for the San Francisco Bay Area, June, 1961.
Readers of Transit Maps will know that I recently featured some awesome concept artwork by Massimo Vignelli for the Washington DC Metro map that was created as part of an unsuccessful bid for the m…
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Readers of Transit Maps will know that I recently featured some awesome concept artwork by Massimo Vignelli for the Washington DC Metro map that was created as part of an unsuccessful bid for the m…
Mini Metros is an ongoing series of worldwide public transit maps that have been “shrunken and simplified” into tiny diagrams by D.C.-based designer Peter Dovak. So far he’s completed over 200 light rail and metro systems and made them available in different configurations as posters and mugs on Society6. (via Kottke)
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Submitted by Angus, who says: I’ve been working on this map of an integrated rail network for Greater Glasgow of the (imagined) near future for quite some time and now that it’s finally finished I’…
Artist Kera Till is the creator of the metro map, "Commuting in Corona Times." It takes the essential signifiers of a metro map applied within our homes.
Submitted by Mitch, who says: Canberra’s CapitalMetro light rail project will (apparently) commence construction this year. The community is still fairly divided over whether it’s a good idea ̵…
An eighth grader's fascination with cities, public transit, and maps leads him to design subway maps for cities that don’t have mass transit systems.
Graphic designer Peter Dovak's '220 Mini Metros' project sees him transforming world metro maps into colorful icons that translate the maps in a clever way.
Graphic designer Cameron Booth draws every current and signed Interstate Highway and U.S. Highway in the contiguous 48 states in the style of a transit map.
Designer Michael Tyznik has created a pair of transit maps detailing what rail transport might look like in the lands from Game of Thrones. Specifically,
New York Subway Guide, 1978, 2007.42.14, Ben Chiaro Collection; New York Transit Museum.
Anyone who loves cities almost certainly loves transit maps: for well over a century, they've not only played an essential role in the navigation of urban spaces but developed into their very own distinctive form at the intersection of utility and aesthetics.
GEOGRAPHY Maps and mongrels and metros, oh my! Researchers at an MIT lab have devised a way to determine how well commuters can comprehend a subway map—in a glance. (Fast Company, great article!) U…
