Map claims to reveal London's most popular stations

[GodAtum]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...rneys-commuters-Londons-popular-stations.html

A fireworks display? No, this stunning map reveals the 50 million journeys made by commuters at London's most popular stations

• An academic at University College London investigated how people get to work around the capital and found some surprising omissions, including King’s Cross station, which is not an end destination for many commuters
  
• Dr Ed Manley created his map based on data collected from 50million Oyster card journeys made at the busiest times on weekday mornings - between 7am and 10am
  
• His map suggests that City workers are most likely to live in east London or Essex, while people living south of the Thames tend to use Waterloo, London Bridge or Victoria to get to get to work

At first glance this map might look like a Catherine Wheel spitting out colourful sparks, but this stunning image in fact shows the routes of millions of commuters who journey into London every day.


The map was created by an academic who used data collected by 50 million Oyster card journeys to investigate how people arrive at their workplace in capital.


The result is fresh look at the busiest stations used by commuters and while there are some notoriously hectic spots like Bank listed, there are also some surprising omissions, including King’s Cross station

Not sure how useful this is. It's omitting longer distance journeys outside the Oyster zone.

 

[user15681]

Nice to know what the other people at my university get up to, making colourful maps...

 

[PG]

Guess the producer(s) had an aversion to straight lines or even left hand bends come to think of it... maybe they'd have made it less 'pretty' :?

 

[Saint66]

I feel that this could be sold as some kind of bizarre modern art...

 

[rdeez]

I feel that this could be sold as some kind of bizarre modern art...

I've already ordered a print for the living room

 

[Saint66]

I've already ordered a print for the living room

Smart investment.

 

[cuccir]

I think it's reasonable to note that this is a blog post, not published research. In other words, it's something conducted as an interesting/experimental exploration of the data, rather than some grand research finding.

As such, I'm not too surprised that it doesn't tell us much that we don't already know or might reasonably assume, although perhaps the extent to which Kings Cross/STP is not a destination, and to which people people don't commute across London to the City, are of interest.

And as a fellow geographer, I can confirm that maps are cool.

 

[gordonthemoron]

for some reason the Daily Mail is banned on t'internet at work

 

[oversteer]

Without non-Oyster journeys included the visualisation is pretty meaningless.

 

[DownSouth]

Without non-Oyster journeys included the visualisation is pretty meaningless.

Or it just needs to be clarified as the most popular stations for Oyster users - as the original blog post does openly.

 

[Clip]

I think it's reasonable to note that this is a blog post, not published research. In other words, it's something conducted as an interesting/experimental exploration of the data, rather than some grand research finding.

As such, I'm not too surprised that it doesn't tell us much that we don't already know or might reasonably assume, although perhaps the extent to which Kings Cross/STP is not a destination, and to which people people don't commute across London to the City, are of interest.

And as a fellow geographer, I can confirm that maps are cool.

I would say most people in to The Cross of a morning will hold paper travelcards rather than an Oyster and most of the Oysters would change at Finsbury park would they not?

And saying that then I would say the same for Paddington but I forget how much of their stations are in the zones.

 

[DynamicSpirit]

for some reason the Daily Mail is banned on t'internet at work

That sounds a very enlightened workplace. Can I come and work there?

 

[hassaanhc]

I would say most people in to The Cross of a morning will hold paper travelcards rather than an Oyster and most of the Oysters would change at Finsbury park would they not?

And saying that then I would say the same for Paddington but I forget how much of their stations are in the zones.

Ealing Broadway is in Zone 3, Hayes & Harlington is in Zone 5. In the up direction from Reading most stopping services call at at least one of the two. Acton Main Line, the stop before Paddington, is also Zone 3 but only the half hourly Greenford services call there.

 

[MrPosh]

Who'd have thought that people from South of London would get trains to Waterloo, Victoria or London Bridge?

 

[Clip]

Ealing Broadway is in Zone 3, Hayes & Harlington is in Zone 5. In the up direction from Reading most stopping services call at at least one of the two. Acton Main Line, the stop before Paddington, is also Zone 3 but only the half hourly Greenford services call there.

Cheers for that. I knew there was some but not how many.

 

[Deerfold]

The descriptions are a lot better on the original blog post at http://urbanmovements.co.uk/2014/03/12/connected-places/

 

[cuccir]

I would say most people in to The Cross of a morning will hold paper travelcards rather than an Oyster and most of the Oysters would change at Finsbury park would they not?
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Yes, so perhaps this is more revealing of the purposes and patterns of the network itself, rather than telling us about people's commutes.

 

[Clip]

Yes, so perhaps this is more revealing of the purposes and patterns of the network itself, rather than telling us about people's commutes.

indeed. Theres some odd lines on the left I cant work out though.

Very pretty it is too.

 

[Roverman]

for some reason the Daily Mail is banned on t'internet at work

Very recently banned on our system too. We think they've printed something the overlords didn't like