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Submission – Unofficial Map: Bay Area Transit Strip Map by Fern Kusnetzoff-Hahn

March 30, 2020

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ACE, Antioch, BART, Bay Area, California, Caltrain, commuter rail, diagram, Fern Kusnetzoff-Hahn, light rail, Muni, Muni Metro, San Francisco, San Jose, SMART, submission, topography, topological, USA, VTA

Submitted by Fern, who says: A few weeks ago, i made a fairly rough strip map of almost all Bay Area passenger rail services using some pens and graph paper. I was wondering if you’d like to review it? Transit Maps says: A nice effort at a Bay Area-wide topological diagram, Fern! It certainly fits into the long, narrow proportions of your average strip map nicely. I particularly like the use of a “half-grid” for […]

On That “Most Complex Subway Map” Article

March 1, 2016

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Miscellany

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complexity, Marc Barthelemy, Mason Porter, Maxwell Roberts, network, New York, Paris, Riccardo Gallotti, ScienceAdvances, Tokyo, topological, topology

Thanks to everyone (and I do mean everyone!) who has sent the recent “The World’s Most Complex Subway Maps as Determined by Scientists!” article to me – from various sources, including this take from CityLab. However, when I read the full academic paper that all these articles are based on, I think that everyone’s got the wrong end of the stick. The study is not of map complexity at all, but of network complexity. The methodology outlined […]

Weekend Fun: Name That Transit System!

April 26, 2013

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mystery, topological, topology, USA

Here’s something a bit different, just for kicks. These extremely abstracted topological diagrams of U.S. rail transit systems were sent to me by Herbie Markwort, who runs the Gateway Streets blog about transportation issues in St. Louis. Personally, I love the way that these diagrams look. Simplified down to their bare essentials – connecting points and termini – the systems take on an almost runic appearance. As much as possible, the distance between connection points […]