{"id":23011,"date":"2025-10-14T15:25:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T19:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/?p=23011"},"modified":"2025-10-14T15:54:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T19:54:12","slug":"designing-and-using-transit-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/2025\/10\/14\/designing-and-using-transit-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Designing and Using Transit Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>When<\/strong>: Monday, October 27, 2025, 12:00 \u2013 1:30 PM<br \/>\n<strong>Where<\/strong>: Metropolitan College, 1010 Commonwealth Ave., 1st floor, Room 122<\/p>\n<p>Join the Boston University <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cityplanning\/\">Metropolitan College City Planning &amp; Urban Affairs Program<\/a> and Initiative on Cities for a noontime <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/events\/transportation-the-city\/\">Transportation &amp; the City<\/a> discussion on how people use and navigate with transit map designs. The discussion features <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/kenneth-dumas-bbba8b12b\/\">Ken Dumas<\/a>, Manager of the Central Transportation Planning Staff at the Boston MPO, who has been designing the MBTA transit maps for the past 25 years, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markovenden.com\/\">Mark Ovenden<\/a> (joining via Zoom), a broadcaster, transit map design expert, and author of <em>Iconic Transit Maps: The World\u2019s Best Designs<\/em>.<\/p>\n<a href='https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLScZMd_J8OgPTNHhu7ONUVRTyYLtuvqKF1xWnmXGcq4zRdiIVg\/viewform' class='button button-primary'>Register<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When: Monday, October 27, 2025, 12:00 \u2013 1:30 PM Where: Metropolitan College, 1010 Commonwealth Ave., 1st floor, Room 122 Join the Boston University Metropolitan College City Planning &amp; Urban Affairs Program and Initiative on Cities for a noontime Transportation &amp; the City discussion on how people use and navigate with transit map designs. The discussion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19783,"featured_media":23014,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[169,469],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23011"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19783"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23011"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23018,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23011\/revisions\/23018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}