Overlay of Muni vehicle movements for all of June, 2010

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Data from NextBus

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  1. Whole Wheat Toast 35 months ago | reply

    For some reason when I watch this video I think of "Nothing On You" by B.O.B

  2. /\/\ichael Patric|{ 35 months ago | reply

    Like a heart beating.

  3. pedestrianist 35 months ago | reply

    How cool is it that you can still make out individual runs even with 30 days smooshed together!

  4. Edial 35 months ago | reply

    Really nice!

  5. Eric Fischer 35 months ago | reply

    Thanks! The Treasure Island trips especially seem to have the heartbeat effect. I think the fact that you can distinguish individual runs across multiple days testifies to better schedule adherence than Muni is generally credited with -- it looks like if a run goes out at all, it generally goes out when it is supposed to.

  6. mathewm 35 months ago | reply

    wow thats awesome

  7. brian_mount 35 months ago | reply

    This is phenomenal -- per usual! It took me a minute to figure out exactly what was going on, Muni is much more consistent than bitter experience sometimes suggests and I wouldn't have expected the regularity of trips either. Extremely cool.

  8. urbanists 35 months ago | reply

    Hi Eric. Just wanted to let you know that we credited some of your pictures in a SPUR blog piece from July 27th. I am also looking into doing an expanded piece about this video, and was hoping you could answer a few questions about it. If you can, could you please send me a message at jsalinger@spur.org. Thanks.

  9. Eric Fischer 35 months ago | reply

    Sure, I'll be happy to answer questions. I sent you mail.

  10. Shawn Allen 35 months ago | reply

    I'm not sure why you feel weird about posting this on Flickr, but let me just say that I think it's totally awesome how you've demystified our Cabspotting time lapses on display at MoMA right now. Keep it coming, Eric. :)

  11. PicklesLabrador 35 months ago | reply

    This is so beautiful!!

  12. Seth and Alexa 35 months ago | reply

    Great visualization! Yes, the routes with a defined "heartbeat" are the routes with the highest on-time reliability. The 108 Treasure Island has the highest schedule adherence in the Muni system. However, the routes we are able to clearly see at 3AM are also a result of large headways due to cutbacks to Owl service... 60 minute headways in some cases. The time lapse runs too fast to make out any "runs" less than a 12 minute headway.

  13. AGrinberg 35 months ago | reply

    This is fantastic. I love your data experiments.

    Edward Tufte would be proud of you!

  14. sfmike22 35 months ago | reply

    This is awesome!
    (I assume you know this was highlighted in Transit Intelligence ...)

    Good job...

  15. Eric Fischer 35 months ago | reply

    No, I didn't know about that. I don't even know what Transit Intelligence is. Where can I find it? Thanks for letting me know.

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