Europe Divided by Driving Time
What if every European capital sent out a car at exactly the same moment, with the aim of reaching every town and village in Europe before its rivals? Which capital would claim the most territory, and how far would its influence extend beyond its own national borders? If Every European Capital Sent Out a Car at the Same Moment is an intriguing interactive map from Copilot Travel that attempts to answer these questions. It imagines 38 cars setting off simultaneously from 38 European capitals, with each car travelling outwards along the road network at typical driving speeds. Every location in Europe is then assigned to whichever capital's car can reach it first. The resulting map divides Europe into 38 differently coloured territories, each representing the area that can be reached more quickly from one capital than from any of the others. The visualization is rather like a Voronoi diagram, in which a territory is divided according to the distance from a collection of starting poi...
