If you take public theodolite in a big metropolis , especially New York City , you know the stresses of train delays . But in a perfect world , the flow rate of transportation system is actually an elegantly ordinate system . A visualization calledTravic , a collaboration betweenGeopsand theUniversity of Freiburg , lets you look down on the idealized form of transit systems worldwide .
The map uses docket data to plot the theoretical movement of the trains and busses . The situation peg down that real sentence data point is incorporated “ when potential , ” but by and big , you are looking at a internal representation of a world without train traffic problems , arrangement malfunctions , and jerks hold the room access open . That is to say , promised land .
To really see things buzz around like an ant colony , speed up the visualization to up to 60x real - time . Here ’s San Francisco :

Such effective movement is a urban center contriver ’s dream hail true . [ GeopsviaReddit ]
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