Pedro M Cruz’s master thesis maps the traffic patterns of over 1500 vehicles over a month in Lisbon, visualizing the results in a variety of informative and aesthetically pleasing ways.

This post presents several experiments (piked between a total of more than 20 generated artifacts) that map 1534 vehicles, during October 2009 in Lisbon, leaving route trails and condensed in one single day. Therefore, the artifacts are animations of the traffic evolution in Lisbon during 24h (from 0:00 to 23:59). In the first artifact, when the traffic is slow, red circles are drawn – traffic clots.

Hit his website for several videos using different visualization criteria and colormaps.

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Traffic in Lisbon – emphasis on sluggish areas from Pedro M Cruz on Vimeo.