VTA (Santa Clara) System and Route Maps, 2000
A complete rebuild and redesign of the Santa Clara County’s VTA system map. We started – essentially from scratch – with aerials of the county, traced/redrew the roads and features, rethinking every process to make it easier to update in the future. In 2013, after a decade or more, it won “Best Public Transit System in North America” at APTA’s Multimodal Operations Conference.
The second part of the project was a new series of printed, folded route maps, found at bus stops and transit hubs. Each hand-held map was intended to represent the functional journey from the beginning to the end of the route.
Credit: Reineck and Reineck, Santa Clara VTA![](https://pro2-bar-s3-cdn-cf3.myportfolio.com/4a52ee679624acec4676e725f924cc35/e6674597-3358-47a3-9839-c76d43cfc892_rw_1200.png?h=ebf1c28f0a42a77df492d702a30af2e2)
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