Narratives of Space and Time

It is difficult to design a chart combined both space and time. Because it requires a more complicated combination of different kinds of information.

Typography matters. The redesigned New York to New Haven train schedule on page 105 has same information and is as the same size as the previous schedule, but is much more readable, because it uses a different typeface.

I think the graphical bus schedule on page 109 tells more information than the bus schedules we usually have. It shows both the departure time(not accurate) and frequency of the bus, and the typographical schedules we usually have show the accurate departure time but can not show the frequency directly.

But the schedule on p109 seems like deal with a bus which only has 3 stops, and normally a bus has more than 10 stops. A graphical bus schedule like this will be difficult to indicate the arrival time at each bus stop.

To have a photograph route map might be good for this bus schedule, but it is missing a lot detail information, like the name of roads, which will confuse the passengers who are not familiar with this area.