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Design Elements ＆ Guidelines of Route Maps for Underground Railways  

진미자 (철도전문대학원 철도문화디자인학과)
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Journal of the Korean Society for Railway / v.6, no.2, 2003 , pp. 87-93 More about this Journal
Abstract
Serving a function of transportation information and geographic information together with proper composition of design elements, railway route maps have to be designed to easily recognized to the concerning passengers as they offer users to access to the guide information. This study analyzed visual aspects of the maps of 8 underground routes linking Seoul and urban cities(D1 - D8) and the maps of 8 different cities overseas (A1 - A8). As a source of information with condition of easy recognition, universality and aesthetics, route maps should be designed and consistently managed by the manual which establishes the principle of the logical system and the standardized form.
Keywords
Route map; Information; Diagram; Image;
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