Last year, the TSA (Transportation Security Administration) confiscated a total of 22,044 “dangerous items” in airport security screenings around the U.S. Use the graphic below to see what those items were and how many were found in each U.S....
It’s well known that air travel impacts the climate. U.S. aircraft account for 11% of transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions. And as the EPA announced just last month, aircraft emissions contribute to climate change and “endanger the public health and welfare of...
On an average day, there are roughly 90,000 commercial flights around the world. This stunning animated map displays them all in 4 seconds. Every plane flight in the world over 24 hours Credit: Zurich School of Applied SciencesYoutube version /...
If you’ve read many of the posts here, you know I like cartograms, maps that encode information by distorting the size of geographic regions. The last few years have seen an explosion of digital mapping on the web, but for some reason...
This map displays 373,377 points, one for each person who died in a vehicle crash between 2004 and 2013. More information about each one will appear as you zoom the map in closer. To locate your neighborhood, there is an address search bar in the upper right corner...
Every dot in this map is a fatal accident for which speeding was a contributing factor, 2004-2013 The other day, I came across this chart, posted by reddit user Ayatollah_Bahloni with the title “Is speeding worth it?” For a given driving distance, the chart...