Underground Maps Unravelled

In 1933 Harry Beck's iconic map tamed the complexity of the London Underground network.

The following 80 years have seen a dramatic expansion of the system. To deal with this issue, should designers optimise traditional techniques or adopt new approaches?

Since 1999, Dr Maxwell Roberts has been working on an ongoing research project to understand transport schematics, their effective design and how to evaluate them using objective methodology. In this lecture he presents his comprehensive catalogue of visual experiments and discusses his findings.