Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, Fisher Fine Arts Library

Come celebrate the launch of R-TRIP at Penn with drinks, networking, and leaders from the future of transportation.BackgroundJoin us for a celebratory Networking Happy Hour to kick off the launch of the Richards Transportation Initiative at Penn (R-TRIP)—a new interdisciplinary initiative focused on advancing innovative, real-world transportation solutions.Meet and mingle with faculty, students, transportation professionals, and the founding members of R-TRIP’s Public Sector Advisory Committee, which includes CEOs representing transit, highways, airports, tolling, and city systems from public agencies across the country.The evening will feature brief remarks from faculty and representatives of our founding sponsors. Refreshments will be served.Open to

Join the Penn IUR and Penn Press in welcoming Enrique Peñalosa Londoño, former mayor of Bogotá, Colombia, to campus on January 23 .“An advanced city is not one where the poor own a car,” writes Enrique Peñalosa “but one where the rich use public transport.” Former mayor of Bogotá, Colombia, Penalosa sees city design as projects that define human happiness, dignity, and equality. He worked to achieve that goal during his two terms (1998-2001 and 2016-2019) when he implemented the Transmilenio bike system and the city’s mass transit and bus rapid transit (BRT) systems, along with several other infrastructure projects

Penn IUR and the Ian L. McHarg Center invite you to a book talk and panel discussion on Post Industrial DIY: Recovering American Belt Icons.A pioneering Detroit automobile factory. A legendary iron mill at the edge of Pittsburgh. A campus of concrete grain elevators in Buffalo. Two monumental train stations, one in Buffalo, the other in Detroit. These once-noble sites have since fallen from their towering grace. As local elected leaders did everything they could to destroy what was left of these places, citizens saw beauty and utility in these industrial ruins and felt compelled to act.The Penn Institute for