Netherlands, Delft
FC-01x Future Cities (Self-Paced) - Exercise 1 : "Making the Invisible - Visible"
Uploaded on 2020-04-27 by Lydia Giokari
The depicted spot shows one of the busiest streets of Delft, the one connecting Delft station with the city. In the picture you see the Station and the tram lines. The invisible information that can be withdrawn from this picture are the traffic flows, the urban centrality of the location and the travel behavior of people (with which modality or way they arrive/cross this location). Everyday and especially during peak hours a lot of people arrive from the station to the city while others are using this road to get to the station and travel to their destination (away from Delft). Different groups of people (students, employees, residents) arrive to the city for different reasons and activities. The specific location has very important urban dynamics due to the big number of people visiting. Also, what differs is if people are crossing this location on foot as pedestrians, by bike or arrive with the bus to the station. If we mapped and modelled the traffic flows of people and the way they arrive (pedestrians, by bike etc) we could design a more efficient and safe junction to facilitate this big flows.