spider maps: summary of best practices and guide to design prepared by: margaret carragher &...
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Spider Maps:Summary of Best
Practices and Guide to Design
Prepared by:Margaret Carragher & Wenwen Zhang
Overview of Presentation
• What is a Spider Map?• Project Purpose• Who has Spider Maps & What Makes them Effective?• GIS Spider Map Production • Spider Map Web Application• Further Spider Map Applications and Design Recommendations
What is a Spider Map?
A spider map is a schematic diagram of transit options serving a particular locality
Spider Maps have evolved to include places walkable from location.
Project Purpose
• Evaluate what makes Spider Maps Effective• Apply Spider Maps to MARTA• Automate the creation of paper Spider Maps for MARTA• Create web application for MARTA Station Spider Maps
• Provide recommendations for Spider Map design
Spider Maps for MARTA• Shown
interest• Area map for
Five Points Station• Feeder bus
system is good for Spider Maps
LONDON• Schematic
• Service period
• Connections to subway
• Amount of Spider Maps
• No headways
• No service times
• No references to orient riders using the schematic map
WASHINGTON D.C.• Headway information
• “YOU ARE HERE”
• “How to Use This Map”
• Multiple scale maps
• Routes from location highlighted
• Number of Spider Maps
LOS ANGELES• Interstate references
• Colors represent service type (local, express, rapid, interstate)
• Destination Table and Area Map
• Only one Spider Map
• Only shows rail stations, no rail lines
• No references to orient riders using the schematic map
Who has Spider Maps &What Makes them Effective?
City Effective Pieces of Information
London • Local bus stop connection area map• Amount of Spider Maps in system
Washington D.C. • Headway information• “You are here”• Instructions• All routes, highlighted ones from selected station
Los Angeles • Colors for service type• Destination table
Boston • Headway information• All other routes faded
GIS Map ProductionGIS Toolbox for Spider Map Automatic Production
GIS Output
• User friendly• Basemap
automatic update• Flexible layout
• Cannot insert the frequency table automatically
• Cannot change route labels automatically
Spider Map Web Application
Spider Map Best Practices/Recommendations
Questions?
Margaret Carragher, EITMetro Planning and [email protected]
• Dr. Kari Watkins, PE Georgia Institute of Technology
• Anne Jacobs Georgia Institute of Technology
• Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA)
Wenwen ZhangGeorgia Institute of [email protected]
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