(Drawing) Rings Around The World

I recently changed the route of my cycle commute into central London, trading a longer journey (about five minutes more) for a cleaner, safe...

Injuries and deaths as a result of road collisions impose huge costs on our society, both on the people directly involved and an others more...

Last Friday Transport for London released statistics on London's recorded road casualties in 2012, along with (for the first time) som...

As this slide from a 2012 TfL survey shows, drivers on London's main roads are much more likely to report delays due to roadworks than ...

This presentation by René Meijer of the City of Amsterdam has a useful chart showing the transport mode split in Amsterdam by the length of...

The other day Danny from Cyclists in the City linked to the city of Berlin's new plan for improving cycling conditions. I haven't ...

I've produced some maps of London cycling casualties on this blog before but it's hard to come up with an image that manages to capt...

Over the last couple of hundred years London's population has grown and spread out on a vast scale. This process has involved a remarka...

The London congestion charge was ten years old this week, which provoked a bit of discussion about it, most notable for the absence of anyon...

A couple of weeks ago I posted a map showing the mix of commuting modes by ward in London from the 2011 Census, and this week I'd like ...

The Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) are currently consulting on a draft Police and Crime plan for London, to cover the per...

Today saw the release of detailed Census data on, among other things, the mode of transport those in work use to get to work. One interestin...

The other day a few people were discussing on Twitter whether cycling was statistically more dangerous, in terms of casualties per mile, du...

If you want to produce a map of population density the usual way to go about it is to get some Census data on density in different zones (w...

The fact that the Evening Standard's property section is now running features about "good-value homes within cycling distance of t...

Transport for London's latest annual Travel in London report is, as usual, full of interesting information. I found this paragraph from...

The last couple of weeks have seen some interesting figures confirming the decline of car culture in London. First, the 2011 Census results ...

Update : Those intelligent people in the Intelligence team at the Greater London Authority have now made a better map of population change...

Paul Collier says that African cities should learn from the example of 19th century London when it comes to housing policy. London was abl...

The Department for Transport publish full data on recorded road casualties on data.gov.uk , and I've been playing around with the data ...