Citation

Wu HY, Niedermann B, Takahashi S, Roberts MJ, Nöllenburg M. Comput. Grap. Forum 2020; 39(3): 619-646.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2020, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/cgf.14030

PMID

33041405 PMCID

Abstract

Transit maps are designed to present information for using public transportation systems, such as urban railways. Creating a transit map is a time-consuming process, which requires iterative information selection, layout design, and usability validation, and thus maps cannot easily be customised or updated frequently. To improve this, scientists investigate fully- or semi-automatic techniques in order to produce high quality transit maps using computers and further examine their corresponding usability. Nonetheless, the quality gap between manually-drawn maps and machine-generated maps is still large. To elaborate the current research status, this state-of-the-art report provides an overview of the transit map generation process, primarily from Design, Machine, and Human perspectives. A systematic categorisation is introduced to describe the design pipeline, and an extensive analysis of perspectives is conducted to support the proposed taxonomy. We conclude this survey with a discussion on the current research status, open challenges, and future directions.

Language: en

Keywords

• Human‐centered computing → Visualization techniques; CCS Concepts; Visualization design and evaluation methods