Metro Map PhD Project

I am enrolled in a doctoral research programme (September 2016 to September 2019) at the University of Kent at Canterbury. My internal supervisor at Kent is Dr Peter Rodgers, and my external supervisor at Essex is Dr Maxwell J Roberts.

Papers and articles

Effect of colour-coding on usability

• Metro Map Colour-Coding: Effect on Usability in Route Tracing (16 pp) by Peter B. Lloyd (University of Kent), Peter Rodgers (University of Kent), Maxwell J Roberts (University of Essex). To be presented at Diagrams 2018, Edinburgh, June 2018.
• Diagrammatic Metro Maps: Navigational Problems and their Detection and Remediation (3 pp) by Peter B. Lloyd. To be presented in the Graduate Symposium at Diagrams 2018, Edinburgh, June 2018.

History of the New York City subway map

• Diagrammatic Maps of the New York Subway: an Historical Perspective (8 pp) by Peter B. Lloyd (University of Kent). To be presented at Diagrams 2018, Edinburgh, June 2018.
• An historical catalogue of maps of the New York City subway system by Peter B. Lloyd (University of Kent). A continuing unfunded project.

Design of subway maps

• From Modernism to Metro Maps: Mondrian, Beck, and Salomon by Peter B. Lloyd (University of Kent), Brief Encounters Vol.1, No. 1 (Feb 2017). DOI dx.doi.org/10.24134/be.v1i1.38.

Software and data

• Files for colour-coding usability study