Urban Demographics

I am very glad to share our new paper looking at the travel time gap between private and public transport at high spatial and temporal res...

The map shows how long it takes (in minutes) to travel by public transport and walking to the closest healthcare facility across the city...

The figure below was created by  Stefan Musch  from Gradient Metrics  (hat tip  Jean Legrand ). The figure was created using R and ggplot2 ...

Thanks to  Geoff Boeing 's great work, you can easily create isochrone maps for anywhere in the world automatically with Python and it...

Isoscope : work by Flavio Gortana ( Twitter ), showing how isochrones by car vary across space and time Tutorial: Spatial Datasets and...

A couple of months ago, Intelligent Life magazine published a great isochronic map from 1914 showing how much time (in days) it used to t...

Map of the  last  week: Transport for London (TFL) has recently published new map that shows how long it takes to walk between stations o...

Stephan Franziskus runs an  interesting blog  where he has written a great post about the history Isochrone Maps . These maps use color gr...

Nate Silver has recently published a nice piece in his blog comparing the travel time performance of taxis (usin data from Waze ) vs pu...

This chart was taken from this study here . In general, commute times are relatively long in Brazilian metropolitan areas, especially when...

Apparently, this is one of the oldest isochrone maps, circa 1920 . It shows the “minimum” travel time into the city of Melbourne via subur...

David Levinson , Andrew Owen and their team at the University of Minnesota have recently created the Accessibility Observatory . If you...

A neat isochronic map! via  Patrick Chovanec : Travel times from Rome, at the time of the Roman Empire in number of days (each shade re...

As you can see  here ,  Andy Woodruff  is a quite talented cartographer! In june this year he released this interactive map where you ca...

Dear readers, next week I'll be in Rio for the  13th WCTR . I'm presenting a working paper Tim Schwanen and I have recently pub...

Nathan Yau points out to this interactive map showing  county-level commute time estimates for 2011 in the US . The data source is the A...

We have already seen some Isochronic maps here at Urban Demographics Blog. Here are a couple of  travel time maps for rail mode in the US...

We have already seen some Isochronic maps here at Urban Demographics. This post shows a few more Travel Time Maps for other cities around ...

Urban Network Analysis : A Toolbox for ArcGIS 10 (via @jmichaelbatty ) G-Econ  -  Geographically based Economic data  (via devecondata ) ...

What could you do if you had origin-destination commute data, zip codes and Google Maps API ? Great job Harry Kao ! (via The Map Room )