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... 37 This appendix lists examples of best practice visualization, selected by the project team. They are also provided on the "Examples" tab of the Vizguide website (vizguide.camsys.com)
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... 38 Asset Management NHDOT Funding Flows – Typical Year New Hampshire Department of Transportation, 2015 New Hampshire DOT (NHDOT) included this Sankey Diagram in its inaugural Transportation Asset Management Plan (TAMP)
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... 39 Arlington Visual Budget Town of Arlington, Massachusetts, 2016 The Town of Arlington, Massachusetts developed "Visual Budget" to clearly communicate its investment decisions to residents and taxpayers. What makes the tool unique is that in addition to the pictured dashboard, visitors to the website land on a "tour" function that highlights sections of the page with key facts and interpretation.
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... 40 Connectivity, Accessibility, and Livability Local Accessibility and Mobility Analysis Champaign County Regional Planning Commission, 2014 The "Local Accessibility and Mobility Analysis" (LAMA) is an appendix to CCRPC's long-term transportation plan.
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... 41 Ridescore Delaware Valley Regional Planning Council, 2015 RideScore is a metric and online tool that describes bicycle accessibility where first- and last-mile issues are most important: commuter rail stations, trolley, and subway termini outside of Center City Philadelphia. The overall RideScore for each location is the sum of ten 0-5 components (hence the total score is 0-50)
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... 42 Environmental Massachusetts Clean Energy and Climate Plan Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, 2015 The Massachusetts EEA provides an example of a line graph that resembles many others in public sector planning documents. Points of interest in this instance include:  EEA has directly compared sustainability metrics by converting them to consistent units (CO2 equivalent)
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... 43 Global Carbon Budget Future Earth and the Global Carbon Project, 2015 The "Global Carbon Budget" infographic uses primarily line charts as well as a choropleth map to relate trends in national carbon dioxide emissions to global warming rates. The most powerful design decision was tying the color blue to declines and using it throughout the graphic, repeatedly emphasizing the style not only in the charts but also each time a decline is mentioned in the text.
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... 44 EV Charger Use by Type Oregon Department of Transportation, 2016 ODOT mapped and plotted Electric Vehicle (VC) charging station data from vendors to identify trends for the general public.
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... 45 Transit Transit and Density Alain Bertaud and Harry W Richardson, 2004 Bertaud and Richardson have compelling data analysis to support their argument that greater density leads to greater transit use, but this illustration might have been all they needed.
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... 46 Visualizing MBTA Data Mike Barry and Brian Card, 2014 Mike Barry and Brian Card created "Visualizing MBTA Data" as a class project at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Drawing on the MBTA's live data feed of subway train locations, they computed and illustrated the progress of trains over the course of a day using animation and position-time line graphs.
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... 47 Remix Remix is a Transit Planning start-up with a visually compelling browser-based visualization and analysis tool. It allows the user to draw transit service on a map, place stations, and forecast operating costs, performance, and economic impact based on many integrated datasets.
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... 48 Highway Mobility Transportation Outlook Mid-America Regional Council, 2014 MARC has inserted iconography and formatted text into this table of transportation system performance data and trends. Each panel represents one of the agency's guiding objectives and relates that larger concept to performance metrics and goals.
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... 49 Top US Interstates Federal Highway Administration, 2015 This FHWA diagram illustrates the length of Interstates and compares it to annual miles traveled, but it's memorable mostly because it's so compelling visually. The color scheme, iconography, and formatted text all draw the eye into the nested donut charts.
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... 50 Timeline CATT Lab, University of Maryland, 2012 "Timeline" is a software package that places events in the course of highway incident response on a common time axis. These include the arrival and tenure of different emergency responders on-site, the closure of lanes, and average speed on the road segment.
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... 51 Performance Based Planning Project Performance Assessment Plan Bay Area, 2013 Plan Bay Area (PBA) is a long-term planning effort for the San Francisco/Oakland/San Jose metropolitan area led by the region's metropolitan planning organization.
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... 52 Planning for Performance Massachusetts Department of Transportation, 2016 MassDOT uses the Planning for Performance cross-asset resource allocation tool to view the performance consequences of different investment portfolios, as well as to generate beneficial scenarios that reflect user preferences. The tool's output page uses formatted text, bullet charts, and stacked bar charts to highlight key data, performance as compared to targets, and budget, respectively.
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... 53 The VDOT Dashboard Virginia Department of Transportation, 2015 The VDOT Dashboard provides the public with up-to-date metrics on performance, safety, condition, projects, citizen survey results, and finances. The metrics are presented on the topic-specific pages using a variety of visualization techniques, including bar and column charts, iconography, and dials.
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... 54 Freight Incentives for Truck Use of SH-130 Texas Transportation Institute, Texas A&M University, 2015 Texas A&M University used this stacked area chart to illustrate the limited potential of SH-130 – a circumferential toll road in Austin – as a detour for through truck traffic currently using Interstate 35. Placing volume on the horizontal axis and (roughly northsouth)
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... 55 Crude-by-Rail Movements 2014 US Energy Information Administration, 2015 The US EIA has used a combination bubble map/flow map to show the transportation of crude oil by rail between regions of the US. In addition to communicating the overall amount of originating crude and the magnitude of each flow, the visualization colorcodes the flows to match the regions, allowing a quick glance at one region to identify the size of flows from each other region.
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... 56 GEDVIZ Bertelsmann-Stiftung, 2016 Bertelsmann-Stiftung uses a chord diagram to illustrate trade between user-selected countries. Mouseover text for the chords establishes the exact size of the flows.
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... 57 Safety Five Years of Traffic Fatalities John Nelson and IDV Solutions, 2010 John Nelson uses heat maps with a calendar view and with a view of the US to show when fatalities occurred over five years and to describe their factors (alcohol, pedestrian, and weather)
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... 58 MassDOT Top Crash Clusters Massachusetts Department of Transportation, 2015 The Massachusetts Top Crash Clusters map uses polygon shapes to highlight where clusters of crashes occur throughout the state. The DOT processed the data to identify which crashes were related to others spatially.
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... 59 Fatality Analysis Reporting System National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 2010 Boost Labs developed this infographic that compiles line charts to show fatalities versus population, a sunburst chart to show how fatalities in the US are distributed (for example, 33,808 fatalities in the US in 2009, 4,872 of which were nonmotorists, 630 of which were pedalcyclists) , and bar charts in small multiples formation to compare state by state funding and fatalities.
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... 60 Socioeconomic Mesa County Employment Mesa County, Colorado, 2014 Mesa County developed these funnel charts to show which industry groups had the highest levels of employment (on the left) and which were growing more quickly (on the right)
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... 61 Unemployment Rate Difference from Average Joe Mako, 2012 Joe Mako developed this set of stream charts combined into a state by state view using the small multiples approach. It shows how the unemployment rate in each state relates to the national average.
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... 62 People Movin' Carl Zapponi Carlo Zapponi produced an interactive Sankey diagram to show migration flows across the world in 2010. He wrangled the data by applying weights based on bilateral migrant stocks (from population census of individual countries)
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... 63 Pedestrian and Bicycle Commute to Work Trends, 2000-2012 Mesa County, Colorado, 2014 Mesa County created this combination chart including stacked bar charts and a line chart to show trends in bicycling and walking, both in total terms (stacked bar charts showing the numbers of biking and walking commuters) and in relative terms (percent of all commuters who bike and walk to work)
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... 64 Fremont Bridge Bicycle Counter Seattle Department of Transportation, 2016 The City of Seattle, Washington created this dashboard using interactive charts to show hourly bicycle counts on the Fremont Bridge. The bar charts on the left show the annual average bicycle counts and the monthly totals.
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... 65 Network Analysis of Hubway Ta Virot Chiraphadhanakul, 2013 Virot Chiraphadhanakul developed an interactive combination chart using a sunburst chart, network diagram, and heat map to depict commuting patterns from a selected Hubway station to more than 8,000 MBTA bus/rail stops in the Boston area. The author wrangled data from Hubway's origin-destination pairs, the MBTA's GTFS feed, and used network optimization techniques to find the shortest path among nodes.

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