City Information Panel: celebrating its 50th anniversary
It’s 1972. Jean-Claude Decaux’s bus shelter invented in 1964 already serves around 300 municipalities in France. Parallel to this is the development of another major innovation: the CIP, or City Information Panel (known as MUPI in French, for Mobilier Urbain Pour l’Information). 1972 was a landmark year in the development of JCDecaux. Portugal followed Belgium as the Group’s third country of operation and first non-French-speaking region. That same year, the Group began operations in Paris, with a contract for 1,500 bus shelters. At the time, JCDecaux enhanced its bus shelter street furniture by introducing the City Information Panel.
