Here’s the scenario: You’re psyching yourself up to take on the worst Boston’s rush hour has to offer – can you reach your office in 10 minutes? The University of Applied Sciences Potsdam aims to answer that question by using a new interactive map that renders visual boundaries of how far one can travel in up to ten minutes from a specific location, by car or on foot.

The map, called Isoscope, was developed by Sebastian Kaim, Flavio Gortana and Martin von Lupin in an urban mobility class at the university, according to Fast Co.Exist. Their platform was developed after brainstorming ways to convey when a situation, such as traffic, hinders urban mobility.

“We want to make the daily traffic experience visually accessible,” von Lupin told Fast Co.Exist. “People start realizing what barriers and liberties they have in their city, and what limitations come along with a specific day or daytime. Maybe our tool can change the way people think about the traffic in their neighborhood, the streets they use and the paths they walk.”

What’s great about Isoscope is that rather than give you an estimated time of arrival from one destination to another, it tells you how far you’re able to travel from a specific point given a certain day and time. Stuck at historic Faneuil Hall at high noon on a Wednesday? You can drive as far north as Medford, as far south as the gas tanks on the Southeast Expressway, or walk to the intersection of Atlantic Avenue and Seaport Boulevard, all in 10 minutes time.

It’s that simple.

“This is what Isoscope is about,” reads Isoscope’s website, “layered shapes show the area around a chosen location that is reachable within a chosen travel time. As traffic conditions change throughout the day, there are 24 layered shapes – each representing one hour of the day.”

Take a look at the video above and jump to 1:44. It details how one can engage with Boston’s layout specifically.

Featured image via Isoscope