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Visualizing the Effects of Public Transportation Growth on Urban Demographics

Anders Bea
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

Dan Cariño
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

Erik Dahlström
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

Niclas Ericsson
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

Julia Gerhardsen
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

Evert Lagerberg
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

Fiona Karlsson
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

Mario Romero
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

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Published in: Proceedings of SIGRAD 2015, June 1st and 2nd, Stockholm, Sweden

Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 120:16, p. 56-58

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Published: 2015-11-24

ISBN: 978-91-7685-855-4

ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)

Abstract

We present Tidebanan (Time Way), an interactive visualization of the history of the metro system of Stockholm from 1949 to 2014 that includes a projection to 2025. The analytics tool visually correlates the growth of the metro system with the changing demographic density of Stockholm. Interestingly, we discover patterns of density decrease in central Stockholm as new metro lines open, in particular the southern red and northern blue lines in the 1970s. In fact, central Stockholm has never been as dense as it was in 1949, a surprising fact that is visually salient in our application. This paper presents the design process, architecture, data models and sources, interactive visual structures, and visual analytic trails discovered through Tidebanan.

Keywords

Interactive visualization; public transport; urban demographics

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