SURVEY KEY FIGURES
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Total fares enumerated
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Cumulative wheel-hours
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Mean range, kilometres
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Mean velocity, km/h
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PLATE I
The Diurnal Pulse — Trips by Hour of Day
Shaded bars at 0700–0900 & 1700–1900 mark the rush hours, when the city slows.
PLATE II
Distribution of Trip Durations
Most fares last between 5 and 15 minutes.
PLATE III
Distribution of Trip Velocities
The true velocity of the city is between 10 and 25 km/h.
B
Temporal Charts
A reading of the city's rhythms across the 168 hours of the working week, the seven days, and the six months of our survey period.
PLATE IV
Topographic Density — Hour × Day Activity Map
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PLATE V
Days of the Week
PLATE VI
Monthly Procession
PLATE VII
Passengers per Fare
PLATE VIII
A Comparison of the Two Vendors
Vendor 1 and Vendor 2 — nearly identical on the street, but distinct in the aggregate.
C
Borough Plates
A cartography of pickups, ranked by frequency. Midtown's gravitational pull is unmistakable from any vantage.
PLATE IX
Pickup Density by Sector
PLATE X
Sector Register — Full Tabulation
D
Field Notebook
Individual fare records, sortable and filterable. Each row a brief biography of one journey across the boroughs.
PLATE XI
The Surveyor's Notebook
E
Marginalia
Three findings annotated in the cartographer's hand. Each one a small argument the data was already making.