Tag: Transport

• By road and by sea: the fastest way from Rome to anywhere in the Roman Empire

  

  By road alone Carthage was 210 days’ walk from Rome. With a ship it was 6. I added the sea to my map of Roman roads, with sailing speeds from ancient voyages and the summer etesian winds.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Africa, coast and sea, Europe, history, Itiner-e, Pleiades, Roman, Roman roads, Romans, Ships and the sea, Transport

• Roads of the Roman Empire: how many days from Rome to anywhere?

  

  Itiner-e, the new open map of Roman roads, holds 299,171 km of road. Only 2.7% is certain. Walked in a model, London is 81 days from Rome, Alexandria 180, and by road alone Carthage is further than either.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Africa, archaeology, Europe, history, Itiner-e, Roads, Roman, Roman roads, Romans, Transport

• Not where it says on the ticket: the airports and stations far from their namesake

  

  Frankfurt-Hahn is 103 km from Frankfurt and Paris Vatry 136 km from Paris. I measured how far every airport and every UK railway station stands from the place in its name, and checked every long case by hand.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Britain, Data bias, OpenStreetMap, place names, Present day, railways, Transport, UK, Wikidata, World

• Caravanserais of the Silk Roads: a day’s march apart?

  

  960 caravanserais, khans and ribats from Wikidata and OpenStreetMap on a hand-inked map. All together they crowd closer than a day’s march; one dynasty at a time, the Safavid caravanserais of Iran stand a median 34 km apart.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Asia, buildings, Clustering test, Early modern, Hand-inked map, history, medieval, OpenStreetMap, Roads, Transport, Wikidata

• Bus deserts: the villages with no bus and the last bus home

  

  I counted every timetabled bus in England on a Tuesday, Saturday and Sunday and checked every village. 41% have no stop with four or more weekday buses within 800 metres, 62% have no bus after seven in the evening and 68% have none on Sunday.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Britain, cities, England, Poverty and wealth, Present day, Remoteness and access, Transport