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Colour Coding Your Commute

A lower resolution, and a much lower sample rate (about 10 minutes between points) than the previous map. In this one individual routes are less defined, but overall trends are easier to see. Notice the major nodes such as the Scarborough Town Centre and Finch Station. Image by James Fisher.

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: All TTC buses and streetcars, traced for six hours during the morning of January 6, 2012. Average speed is indicated by colour: red is the slowest, followed by orange, yellow, green, and blue. Image by James Fisher.

: Without the shoreline, all in black. The map shows data collected from over 1,500 vehicles, which travelled a total distance of over 120,000 kilometers—about three times around the world. Image by James Fisher.

: A lower resolution, and a much lower sample rate (about 10 minutes between points) than the previous map. In this one individual routes are less defined, but overall trends are easier to see. Notice the major nodes such as the Scarborough Town Centre and Finch Station. Image by James Fisher.

: A screengrab from the animation video showing in the gradual layering in of routes—in this case all the routes up to route 20.