Wednesday, March 12, 2014

drag2share: A Whole Year of Taxi Rides in New York City Mapped

Source: http://gizmodo.com/a-whole-year-of-taxi-rides-in-new-york-city-mapped-1542314862

A Whole Year of Taxi Rides in New York City Mapped

New York's fleet of iconic yellow taxis are still the city's reliable, non-surge priced transportation backbone. Its 13,500 medallion taxis make 170 million trips a year, every single one of them mapped in this beautiful new visualization from the folks at the MIT Senseable City Lab. The interactive map isn't just here to be pretty—it's also the data behind a strategy to make riding taxis way more efficient.

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