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What Driving-Time Maps Say About Your City

These “isochrone maps” offer an interesting look at similarities and differences in road design, and their effects on travel.
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Peter Kerpedjiev

If you live in a city where public transit options are sparse, or one where they’re temporarily out of service, you might have to use a car to get around. If that’s the case, these new maps can help you gauge how long it’ll take you to get to a given point—inside or out of your city—by car.

Here are some reasons the Vienna-based doctoral student Peter Kerpedjiev made these maps: