Monday’s Friday Reads – 13 September 2021

On By In Accessibility, Friday Reads, Maps, Micromobility

• The live, interactive TfL Go Tube map app (TfL)

• Towards the inclusive railway for all users (RailEngineer)

• Under South Kensington’s massive escalator replacement (IanVisits)

• UK 2020 e-bikes sales almost double over previous year (IntelTransport)

• Aesthetic alternative to East Midland Ry’s network map (TransportDesigned)

• Why airlines no longer use rear engined planes (Traveller)

• Japan’s overnight bus with sleeping pods (SoraNews24)

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2 comments

  1. The period 1955-75 can hardly be called “The early days of aviation” as per the article, can it now?
    ( First London – Paris air service in 1919 & “de luxe” services by 1927, & the opening of “Imperial Airways” in 1924 … )

    An “Aesthetic EMR map” ??
    Much better layout, appalling colour choice, or so I think.
    Darker lines, with clearly-distinguished colours on a white background is the way to go, as Harry Beck well knew.

    “Towards the Inclusive Railway”
    95% for effort, um, err .. 30% for results, I’m afraid, because the proposed solution seems to require “less able” people to access a mobile phone “app” … – or “maybe not?”
    What is needed is Really Clear & guaranteed-consistent signage, applied everywhere, plus proper provision for the various physical disabilities. { Ramps & Lifts being the most obvious, of course. }

    The live Tube Map
    Oh dear, TfL have gorn & done it again … all-wonderful-&whizzy, Hi-tech, that fits ( maybe) on a phone screen, without showing the bigger picture.
    And, by the way, shouldn’t angles in computer-speak, be in Radians?
    e.g. z= tan 45° * radius … should be: z = tanπ/4*r … maybe?
    P.S. Searching for “TfL Go” on their web-site … comes up completely blank …. So that anyone looking for it in the obvious place won’t even know it exists. Oh dear.

  2. @Greg
    I am a software engineer.
    While its true that we do sometimes use radians. We also use degrees and “turns” (how many fractional times around a circle) and there are probably also other units that I’ve not yet encountered.
    As with most things – it depends on the situation.
    TBH I question the need for having that diagram in the article at all, but given that it seems to be aimed at the average person, degrees seems totally reasonable to me. The actual code may very well use degrees, radians, turns or something else though.

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