From Data to Narrative: Storymaps Using Spatiotemporal Travel Behaviour Data

Aligned with the narrative turn in science and the exacerbation of the climate crisis, Storytelling and Storymaps are powerful tools for communication. They help readers to empathise with different points of view, help broaden minds, and help envision new futures while prompting reflection. Considering mobility transition, the emergence of smartphone-based tracking applications makes Spatiotemporal Mobility Behaviour Data more frequent, thus providing an improved data basis for Storymaps. What cartographical consequences impose themselves on maps created from a base data set that specific? Theoretical considerations on map types are made and consequently compared with the Storymap-application example "Seestadt on the move". This exemplifies the current state of implementation of Storymaps within transportation planning and highlights their as-yet unexploited potential.