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I also love this visualization and remember being blown away when I first saw it! Two notes: 1. These “stringlines” are also known as Time-Space Diagrams in th

I also love this visualization and remember being blown away when I first saw it! Two notes: 1. These “stringlines” are also known as Time-Space Diagrams in the transit industry, and they’ve been around for a while. e.g. https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Time-space-diagrams-of-train-timetables-for-a-one-line-metro-a-Regular-and-b_fig1_294138079 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Time-space-diagrams-of-t... In fact Vibien cites as inspiration the official NYCT stringline paper: https://www.worldtransitresearch.info/research/5936/ https://www.worldtransitresearch.info/research/5936/ 2. I’ve noticed that at least on the A, the viz is inaccurate? It’s missing a lot of trains.

lelandfe 2y ago
Found a nice video digging into traffic time-space diagrams: https://youtu.be/E_tk6BGhYDE https://youtu.be/E_tk6BGhYDE There's a nice a-ha moment when he shows aerial photographs.
mastercheif 2y ago
I knew he cited a NYCT paper on the page itself, but I've never seen the paper so I didn't know how similar they were. Regardless, making this available to the public is laudable in-of-itself. Thanks for the sources, will check out later!