Transportation Planning: Recent Episodes
Eric Rensel
This monthly podcast series will feature updates about Gannett Fleming Transportation Planning current events as well as interviews with Gannett Fleming executives, practice members, friends of the practice, and external invited guests.
Niles Barnes, Deputy Director of the https://www.greenway.org/ (East Coast Greenway Alliance), joins us to celebrate Bike Month with a conversation about the value and the demand for better active transportation infrastructure. The East Coast Greenway is a walking and biking route that spans 3,000 miles, from Maine to Florida, connecting 450 communities and providing a safe space for commuting and recreation. To learn more about the East Coast Greenway, get involved, or discover trails and upcoming events, visit https://www.greenway.org/ (www.greenway.org).
Stasys Fidleris joins us for a conversation about his path to transportation engineering, what he's working on in Toronto, and the https://gfnet.sharepoint.com/sites/FuGen/SitePages/Home.aspx (Future Generations of Gannett Fleming) (FuGen) employee resource group. FuGen seeks to amplify the voice of emerging professionals - learn more or get involved by emailing FuGen@GFNET.com.
Welcome back to the Transportation Planner! We are excited to re-launch the podcast after a brief hiatus in 2020. This bonus episode provides a brief introduction to our new co-host and our plans for the series.
Amy Ford from the Mobility on Demand Alliance stopped by to discuss Mobility as a Service and Mobility on Demand. She also offered some perspective on where she sees mobility going after the COVID-19 Pandemic.
In this episode Eric Rensel sat down with Ister Morales of the Management Consulting Group and Carrie Suffern of the Environmental Acoustics group to discuss planning for transportation resiliency. Ister and Carrie are spearheading efforts to take recent experience in resiliency and turn it into knowledge we can use as win themes.
In this episode Eric Rensel provided an update on the Transportation Planning Practice Leadership Team Meeting and visited with Nelson Mora from Gannett Fleming's Miami office. Nelson oversees transportation planning in Florida. He gave some perspectives on the practice and talked about the firm's recent project to develop a new Long Range Transportation Plan for the Miami-Dade Transportation Planning Organization.
The Managing Director of the National Operations Center of Excellence, Patrick Son, visited with Eric Rensel to talk about what the Center is, what it focuses on, the pivotal role Gannett Fleming has played in it's development and what the future looks like.
Host Eric Rensel visits with Gannett Fleming Executive Vice President and Transportation Planning Director John Derr to kickoff the Transportation Planner show. Listen as John describes what it means to have a National Transportation Planning Practice and what his goals are for the group in 2020 and what his expectations are for 2025.
Matt Schiemer stops by to talk about what has shaped his viewpoint on transportation planning and how the transportation planning practice fits into Gannett Fleming's future. He also discusses his 2020 goals for the practice.
Bryan Mulqueen visits the show to talk about how Transportation Planning fits into the Transit and Rail Business Group and what his 2020 goals are for the practice. He also talks about the role transportation planners play in helping clients make confident decisions for investments in flexible solutions.