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A Survey on Transit Map Layout - from Design, Machine, and Human Perspectives
(The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2020) Wu, Hsiang-Yun; Niedermann, Benjamin; Takahashi, Shigeo; Roberts, Maxwell J.; Nöllenburg, Martin; Smit, Noeska and Oeltze-Jafra, Steffen and Wang, Bei
Transit maps are designed to present information for using public transportation systems, such as urban railways. Creating a transit map is a time-consuming process, which requires iterative information selection, layout design, and usability validation, and thus maps cannot easily be customised or updated frequently. To improve this, scientists investigate fully- or semi-automatic techniques in order to produce high quality transit maps using computers and further examine their corresponding usability. Nonetheless, the quality gap between manually-drawn maps and machine-generated maps is still large. To elaborate the current research status, this state-of-the-art report provides an overview of the transit map generation process, primarily from Design, Machine, and Human perspectives. A systematic categorisation is introduced to describe the design pipeline, and an extensive analysis of perspectives is conducted to support the proposed taxonomy. We conclude this survey with a discussion on the current research status, open challenges, and future directions.