Wu, Hsiang-YunNiedermann, BenjaminTakahashi, ShigeoRoberts, Maxwell J.Nöllenburg, MartinSmit, Noeska and Oeltze-Jafra, Steffen and Wang, Bei2020-05-242020-05-2420201467-8659https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.14030https://diglib.eg.org:443/handle/10.1111/cgf14030Transit maps are designed to present information for using public transportation systems, such as urban railways. Creating a transit map is a time-consuming process, which requires iterative information selection, layout design, and usability validation, and thus maps cannot easily be customised or updated frequently. To improve this, scientists investigate fully- or semi-automatic techniques in order to produce high quality transit maps using computers and further examine their corresponding usability. Nonetheless, the quality gap between manually-drawn maps and machine-generated maps is still large. To elaborate the current research status, this state-of-the-art report provides an overview of the transit map generation process, primarily from Design, Machine, and Human perspectives. A systematic categorisation is introduced to describe the design pipeline, and an extensive analysis of perspectives is conducted to support the proposed taxonomy. We conclude this survey with a discussion on the current research status, open challenges, and future directions.Attribution 4.0 International LicenseHuman centered computingVisualization techniquesVisualization design and evaluation methods10.1111/cgf.14030619-646