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Luxembourg Public Transport Map

AVL Luxembourg
2016

Schematic Network Map
Design Standard

Download high resolution .pdf map here

Network Wayfinding System

DESIGN NOTES

Geography

The map encompasses the entire area served by the bus system with two different scales:
- The Urban scale, pedestrian scale, in the dense central area
- A territorial scale on the periphery

Topology

City Center:
- Enlarged
- Geographic
- Detailed (all streets are pictured)

Periphery:
- Shrunk
- Schematic

Symbolics

The Old Town (Ville Haute) is placed at the exact center of the map for immediate orientation. It's peculiar pentagonal shape is emphasized and it is shown as a dense urban fabric with packed building intersected by streets and squares.

Structure

The structure of the map corresponds to the morphology of the city with all angles multiples of 18°, relating to the pentagonal center.

Information Hierarchy

Central corridor: 19 lines
Center-Main Railway Station

Bright line colors

Lines are grouped and frequencies added.
Thick line = high frequency, 5 to 10 min
Thin line = Low frequency (more than 10min)

Lines are grouped according to their common direction.

Tangent lines: 11 lines

Secondary network, lines have lighter pastel colors.

Cityscape elements:
Remarkable buildings
Parks
Rivers
Railways
Bridges
Service icons

Older Versions

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

Before 2016

Media Coverage

He who controls the map controls minds
CityMetric
March 2016

From spaghetti monster to "work of art"
Luxemburger Wort
March 2016

It's bold, modern intelligent transit map-making
Transit Maps
March 2016

Le "Spaghetti Monster" tire sa reverence
Paperjam
March 2016

Il a recree la carte de bus de la Ville de Luxembourg
L'Essentiel
June 2015

Architect brings alternative bus map to Luxembourg
Luxemburger Wort
June 2015