Understanding strategy selection. - Maxwell J. Roberts; Elizabeth J. Newton (Int. J. Hum. Comput. Stud., 2001)

Underground Maps Unravelled - Explorations in Information Design. - Maxwell J. Roberts (Roberts, Maxwell J., 2012)

Drawing Metro Maps Using Bézier Curves. - Martin Fink 001; Herman J. Haverkort; Martin Nöllenburg; Maxwell J. Roberts; Julian Schuhmann; Alexander Wolff 001 (GD, 2012)

Objective versus subjective measures of Paris Metro map usability: Investigating traditional octolinear versus all-curves schematics. - Maxwell J. Roberts; Elizabeth J. Newton; Fabio D. Lagattolla; Simon Hughes; Megan C. Hasler (Int. J. Hum. Comput. Stud., 2013)

Preference versus performance: Investigating the dissociation between objective measures and subjective ratings of usability for schematic metro maps and intuitive theories of design. - Maxwell J. Roberts; Hannah Gray; Jennifer Lesnik (Int. J. Hum. Comput. Stud., 2017)

Metro Map Colour-Coding: Effect on Usability in Route Tracing. - Peter B. Lloyd; Peter Rodgers 001; Maxwell J. Roberts (Diagrams, 2018)

A Survey on Transit Map Layout - from Design, Machine, and Human Perspectives. - Hsiang-Yun Wu; Benjamin Niedermann; Shigeo Takahashi; Maxwell J. Roberts; Martin Nöllenburg (Comput. Graph. Forum, 2020)