10 Oct

What does “this” map tell you about the city of Rome?

With over 19.5 million visitors a year, Rome is a city with very demanding transportation needs. Not only must considerations be made for local transportation, but also for international travel as well as travel between European countries. In order to accommodate all of these types of travel many different modes of transportation are utilized and weaved together to create a single transportation system that connects Rome to the world around it. Rome has three airports, one of the biggest train stations in Europe, a metro system, and a bus, tram and urban train network which all work together to accommodate the large number of travelers common in the city.

While many maps of Rome focus on the main sights of the city, the transportation map’s focus is entirely different. Rather than showing an isolated city with points of interest, a transportation map represents the city in connection with the world. People come and go, bringing outside knowledge with them and taking away newly found knowledge of the historical city with them to wherever they may be headed. Rome is not simply a city of history, but a city that has the ability to share its history with the rest of the world.