It is 4:00 am in New York City.

There are 0 freight trucks on the road, making possible.

⏸ 12:00 am 11:59 pm

Steel Arteries is a visualization of freight truck activity in the Big Apple, built on the synthetic dataset created in the 2023 paper "Quantifying and Visualizing City Truck Route Network Efficiency Using a Virtual Testbed" by Davis III et al. These are the trucks and the drivers that make the city run.

To the original researchers: thank you for creating such a rich dataset, and thank you for sharing it with the world!

Tips:

• Click any neighborhood to see how many trucks are driving through it
• Click the any industry drop-down to see the flow of freight trucks for a specific industry
• Click and drag the timeline to change the time of day

For more info on why and how this came together, check out the blog post.

Created by Thomas Hughes