Animating Auckland’s public transport network – Take Two
In late January I created an animation of Auckland’s public transport network with data from the MAXX Auckland transport Google transit feed. As I noted in the post, there were several issues with the video. I carved out a little time this week to revise the animation and I am happy with the progress. The new video is embedded below.
There is a lot of detail in this animation. It’s best viewed in high definition with fullscreen mode on.
[vimeo width=”680″ height=”383″]http://vimeo.com/27230338[/vimeo]
Version Two distinguishes between buses (teal), ferries (blue) and trains (red). I also tidied some of the more obvious errors with the ferry route geometry data. This involved manually tweaking the route geometries stored in the transit feed “shapes.txt” table for many of the ferries. I still need to adjust a few (I’m looking at you, Rangitoto Island). I have not corrected the bus data. The main issue with bus data are the erroneous harbour crossings from the North Shore to the Auckland CBD.
Next week I will provide an overview of how the animation was created.
6 Responses to “Animating Auckland’s public transport network – Take Two”
Hey that’s excellent! I was quite taken by the synchronisation between buses and ferries on Waiheke.
Beautifully done! Makes me think of my visit to Auckland two years ago. And I remember sitting on the ferry to Waiheke ;-).
Kind regards, Walter
The followings may be of interest to roading network traffic simulation tasks:
#1) Scaling laws in the spatial structure of urban road networks
#2) Self-organized natural roads for predicting traffic flow: a sensitivity study
I’ve just came across the following (preprint PDF is freely available), which may be interest to city traffic simulation.
Physics of traffic gridlock in a city
Very nicely done. Really looking forward to the next installment!
Nice work.
Would be interesting to see an animation of the density and flow of traffic on Auckland roads(or main motorways) on a typical day and also an animation of the public transportation system on the night of 9th September 2011 (RWC opening).
Cheers