About MobilityCharts
Public transport datasets, plotted honestly, and given away for anybody to reuse.
In one paragraph
- Every chart is built from a public dataset with a licence that permits republishing.
- Every page names its source, its licence and the date it was pulled.
- Every chart can be embedded elsewhere at no cost, with no signup.
- Mistakes get corrected in public, with a dated note.
What this site does
Good transport data already exists. It mostly sits inside long reports and spreadsheets that nobody reads. MobilityCharts takes those numbers, plots them clearly, states plainly what they show, and publishes the raw table alongside so that anybody can check the working.
One chart per page. A short numeric summary, the data table, a method note, and an embed code. Nothing padded, nothing dressed up.
Standards the charts hold to
- Bars always start at zero. A truncated axis makes small gaps look dramatic, and that is a lie told with geometry.
- Bars sort by value, never alphabetically. The ranking is usually the story.
- Linear scales by default. When one market dwarfs the rest, the chart shows that gap at full size rather than flattening it.
- No rounding in storage. Source values land in the data files exactly as published. Rounding happens only when a number gets drawn.
- The credit line rides inside the image. When a chart gets screenshotted and reposted, the source travels with it.
How a dataset gets in
A dataset enters only after its licence has been read and recorded. If the terms do not clearly permit republishing with attribution, it stays unpublished, however useful the numbers look. Several ideas sit parked for exactly that reason, and the register says so rather than quietly hiding them.
The exact credit wording gets stored word for word at that point, then repeated on every page that uses the data.
Take the charts
Every chart carries an embed code. No signup, no cost, no expiry, no limit on traffic. Journalists, students, bloggers and researchers can lift any chart here and place it on their own page.
One condition only: keep the credit line visible and the link intact. That link is the whole business model.
Corrections
Errors get fixed within 48 hours of discovery, with a dated note on the affected page. Spotting one and writing in is a favour, not a nuisance. The contact page lists how to reach the site.
Who runs it
MobilityCharts is written and maintained by Hashaam Shahid Yousafzai, working independently. Reach him by email at hsyz2019@gmail.com or by phone on +92 319 5015013.
How it pays for itself
Advertising on the reader-facing pages, and in time a weekly digest with sponsor slots. Advertising never appears on the embed pages that other sites host, and no advertiser has any say about which datasets get plotted or about what the numbers show.
What it is not
Not a news site, not a forecasting service, and not a source of investment advice. The charts describe what already happened, according to the organisation that published the figures.