The shrinking continent: new time - space maps of Europe

The spatial implications of the functional proximity deriving from air passenger flows between European metropolitan urban regions

“…In the future rail passenger flows, in the light of the fully functioning network of high speed trains, by virtue of the Trans European Network (TEN), will undoubtedly generate interesting spatial visions as well. Indeed such previsions were given a graphical representation in the time-space cartography produced by the University of Dortmund in the early 1990s (Spiekermann and Wegener 1994). This could only lead to an enhanced understanding of European territorial dynamics, which would be of enormous benefit to policy makers and politicians alike at all levels, faced with the task of seeking the balance between competitivity and complementarity within the overall context of sustainable territorial development.…”

The daily dynamic potential accessibility by car in London on Wednesdays

“…For linear data, octilinear cartograms simplify the geographical representation of transport networks by representing elements exclusively by horizontal or vertical lines, or 45°angles (Condeço-Melhorado, Christidis, & Dijkstra, 2015). Other interesting techniques are timespace maps, in which elements are organized in such a way that the distances between them are not proportional to their physical distance, but to the travel times between them (Axhausen, Dolci, Fröhlich, Scherer, & Carosio, 2008;Shimizu & Inoue, 2009;Spiekermann & Wegener, 1994;Ullah & Kraak, 2014). Some of them are presented in animated maps, which have the power to clearly explain the phenomenon studied (ITC -Universiteit Twente, 2011).…”

User-Centric Time-Distance Representation of Road Networks

“…Some work has been done in the past concerning automatic algorithms for displaying time-distance information [4,5,6]. While effective for geographic information professionals, these representations do not appear to be sufficiently intuitive to aid the average user in everyday decision making, as suggested by the fact that their use in maps for lay-people is uncommon.…”