Well, this is the latest ‘WTM for WTM’ (World Tube Map in time for World Travel Market) – I’ve had to cut & shut certain sections together, but I hope the concept is now a lot clearer than it was in the first draft.
Here’s a snip of the detail – the whole image at the moment is poster sized (2800 pixels wide). I will be slimming it down to a postcard / web version shortly – but the full version can still be printed and read (just) at A4.
Enlargement of small section of World Tube Map
Obviously, there’s quite a bit to explain about how the map got to its current stage, and again I will try to do that later. I just promised myself I’d get something up before heading down to World Travel Market. The key point about the map is that it is a way of viewing the world ‘as it could be’ – taking the idea of the ‘global village’ into the middle of this century, and showing how everywhere could be linked together – both physically by a high speed train / maglev network and metaphorically through cultural or commercial connections.
Updated 29/11/09
Here’s a very simple tube map for London tourists, which I like a lot!
The Guardian’s Jonathan Glancey has an interesting article about the challenges of keeping the London tube map clean, now that the Oyster card system will be extended to trains & river services. It really is time I volunteered my services!
Tags: World Travel Market, World Tube Map, WTM
Haven’t you missed sth? Cyprus, for instant?
Dawid,
The map is conceptual, rather than a true representation. When I first did it, I included every capital city, but I needed to cut it down and make it presentable as a network of potential future high speed rail routes. The next version will be stripped down further so the concept is easy to see on a standard computer screen – this one can be printed on A4, and is just legible.
I’m always going to be asked ‘why did you miss my place’ – and when I produce the next version, there will be a lot more documentation about what goes in & out. But realistically, I don’t see Cyprus being connected to a global rail network in the way that, say, Taiwan might be, because I just don’t think the population warrants it. Development of metro rail networks within Cyprus, along the lines of the rail networks in Majorca, or on Corsica or Sardinia would be a different story – but that’s a different concept, this map is about connecting places that are currently linked by flight routes.
If the extreme scenarios of high oil prices and decreasing renewable costs made virtually all airlines bankrupt, then I would expect to see more ferry / hydrofoil routes plug Cyprus into this grid, but the parameters that would make that happen are difficult to predict, and I for one don’t want to see an end to flying as I enjoy that too, I just want to see high speed rail take up its rightful place, and offer a cheaper, more convenient and more environmentally sound alternative where it can.
Cheers,
James
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