Interactions: Campus Is a Little City of Its Own

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Day 13 (Interactions): An origin–destination network of my own trips around Philadelphia from my TripLibre travel diary, Sept. 28 – Oct. 30, 2026. I expected the strongest link to be my commute. It isn’t. Of 133 trips, 41 began and ended on Penn’s campus, more than the 27 between campus and home. Campus works like a little city of its own: short walks from one building to the next, mostly on foot, with a median of about 430 m.

The map is laid out as one story sheet in Penn’s colors.

Campus Is a Little City of Its Own. A story sheet in Penn Blue and Penn Red: a map of central Philadelphia with red arrows from a large Penn campus circle to City Hall station and the Academy of Music, an inset of short trips between campus buildings centred on the Weitzman School, a bar chart led by 41 trips within campus, and four numbered story notes