Abstract. Does the choice of colour-coding scheme affect the usability of metro maps, as measured by the accuracy and speed of navigation? Using colour to differentiate lines or services in maps of metro rail networks …
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Friday Reads – 29 November 2024
• The Map House and its Tube Maps (London Rail) • Naming the Overground – The Windrush line: Podcast (Mind the Gap: The Official TfL Podcast) • Row threatening to derail new train services between …
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• Old Paddington tube – final weekend! (London Rail) • London tube map creator’s archive goes up for sale (The Guardian) • Cannon Street Station 1866-1966 (The Railway Hub) • Rail expert rubbishes Andy Burnham’s …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 20 September 2024
• Oxford Street just got a step closer to going completely car-free (Time Out) • Cardiff Crossrail Tramway Proposal (TransportforWales) • East West Rail Autumn 2024 Update: Video (Rail Focus) • Railway stations on track …
Continue readingKorea Great Train eXpress metro installs transparent OLED window displays (OLEDInfo)
LG Display announced that Korea’s newly launched Great Train eXpress (GTX) subway service has installed the company’s 55″ transparent OLED displays in the cabin windows. This is the first subway service in Korea to install …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 16 August 2024
• The long way round (Jonn Elledge) • London Circles Tube Map updated (Tube Map Central) • Train-Time Travel (Straphanger) • Chicago’s Embattled Transit System Faces a High-Profile Test with Massive Convention (CityLab) • Why …
Continue readingNorth American Cities Join the Fare Zone Club: Finally Integrating Intermodal Fares
For most of the history of public transport, integrated tickets and fare zones were largely unheard of. Passengers would generally pay the ticket clerk or conductor a distance-based fare for each leg of their journey, …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 1 July 2024
• Beck’s Maps at 90 (Cartographic Journal) • Nottinghamshire power station receives final coal delivery by rail (Rail Advent) • World’s longest railway tunnel to reopen after a year (Rail Technology) • The Paris RER …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 18 March 2024
• Plans to run new direct rail services to London (BBC) • HS2 tunnel workers hit out at site conditions (Construction Enquirer News) • Gallery of unique early Underground Maps (Bryars & Bryars) • New …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 19 February 2024
• Tickets, please! You may not like the name, but you’re welcome on London’s Windrush line (The Guardian) • Northern using AI to trial British Sign Language announcements on trains (Rail UK) • Europe Train …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 9 February 2024
• Battery traction trial ahead as TransPennine Express fortunes improve (Railway Gazette) • New £2bn Edinburgh tramline to be put to public consultation (New Civil Engineer) • History of psychological tricks TfL trialed to make …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 17th November 2023
• Aslef announces industrial action in December (The Guardian) • Look out on the Central line (IanVisits) • Paris Mayor to set vote on increasing parking fees for SUVs (BBC) • HS2 Old Oak Common …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 16 October 2023
• ‘Managed decline’: the uncertain future for British rail after cuts to HS2 (Financial Times – £) • TfL ‘no longer able to commit the funding’ to long-promised extension of tram to Sutton (New Civil …
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• DB Cargo UK retiring Class 90 electric locomotives in green blow (RailwayTechnology) • World of Sport: 1982 London double decker bus racing: Video (ElvisKline99) • The distorted geography of Paris bus maps (FabricofParis) • …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 7 August 2023
• Rows over ‘anti-motorist’ ULEZ & LTNs lose perspective: They save lives (Guardian) • What Underground Venetian Masts station roundels have to do with the Illuminati: Video (JagoHazzard) • Moving two A4 Pacific Mallard siblings …
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