Mapping The Rising Of The Railways

The Campaign for Better Transport has released an interactive map which shows the huge increment inwards rails traffic inwards Great United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland over the end xviii years.

The Rail Travel Station Usage 1997-2015 map visualizes annual rails rider traffic for each twelvemonth since 1997. In those xviii years rails traffic inwards Great United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland has increased by 1.45 billion annual rider journeys. The Rail Travel Station Usage map shows which stations accept seen the biggest increment inwards traffic as well as which stations accept seen a drib inwards traffic since 1997.

The map uses the CartoDB Torque library to animate through all xviii years of rider traffic. The round off station map markers are sized to stand upwards for the size of the station (amount of rider traffic). The color of the circles indicates the scale of the increment (or decrease) inwards rider traffic over the end xviii years.