The Rail~Volution Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Welcome to the Rail~Volution Podcast. Rail~Volution is a network and an annual conference focused on ways that communities leverage major transit investments (including rail, bus rapid transit, bus, as well as bicycling walking, sharing and emerging options) to connect people with employers and neighborhoods. With the Rail~Volution Podcast, we're delving deeper into aspects of building livable communities, with special focus on equity and community participation.
This month on the Mpact podcast we’re joined by Ren Yee of UN Studio at the Mpact Transit + Community conference in Philadelphia. We chat about the cognitive workload of pedestrians and creating safe opportunities for mind wandering and absorbing information.
This episode of the Mpact Podcast features a conversation with architect and urban designer Renn Yee, from UN Studio in Amsterdam. We sat down with him at last fall’s Mpact Transit + Community conference in Philadelphia, where he was part of a session on Using Human Behavior to Inform Transit Decisions. On the podcast, he talks about using cognitive mapping tools to understand how people experience transit spaces in order to make them better. We start with a little background about Ren Yee, then get into human-centered design of transit spaces. Along the way you’ll hear about mind wandering, the horn effect, and using virtual reality to pre-design transit spaces.
And, heads up: If you’d like to be a speaker at this year’s Mpact Transit + Community conference in Portland, the Call for Speakers opens February 19.
For more information on Mpact or the annual conference, visit http://mpactmobility.org
This month on the Mpact podcast we’re going back to the Mpact Transit + Community conference in Philadelphia to hear about proven approaches to saving naturally occurring affordable housing. From tangled title to home repair, ULI Philadelphia’s Kevin Moran leads a local panel.
Moderator: Kevin Moran, Executive Director, Urban Land Institute (ULI), Philadelphia, PA Nikil Saval, State Senator, District 1, Pennsylvania State Senate, Philadelphia, PA Jamie Gauthier, Councilmember, District 3, Philadelphia City Council, Philadelphia, PA James Leonard, Commissioner, Department of Records, City of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Find out more at http://mpactmobility.org
This month on the Mpact Podcast we’re joined by Ryan Kelley, Community development Manager for Hennepin County in Minnesota. Ryan chats with us about the county’s transit-oriented communities program and how they support commercial aid and affordability.
For more information, visit http://mpactmobility.org
This month on the Mpact podcast we’re listening in on a 1 to 1 conversation between HNTB’s Julie Eaton Ernst and Cris Liban, Sustainability Officer for LA Metro. They chat about the co-benefits of transportation, the evolution of the definition of transportation, and making change in small steps.
To find out more about Mpact's work or the annual conference, visit http://mpactmobility.org
This month on the Mpact podcast we’re joined by Cassidy Boulan and Thom Stead of the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission. We chat about their work in Philadelphia, Trenton, and greater New Jersey related to complete streets and creating safe infrastructure for biking.
To find out more about Mpact, visit http://mpactmobility.org
This month on the Mpact podcast we’re joined by Dylan Rivera and Jacob Sherman of the Portland Bureau of Transportation to discuss micromobility. We chat about the importance of cities regulating access to transportation markets, importance of bike infrastructure, and alternatives to a parking pass.
Link to Portland's E-Scooter Program - PBOT
Portland Scooter Data - PBOT
For more information, visit http://mpactmobility.org
This month on the Mpact Podcast we have a conversation moderated by Corrie Parrish of Kittleson Associates with Andrea Breault of Cascades East Transit and Amy Schlappi of Hood River County Transportation District discussing Transit service to the Great Outdoors.
For more information, visit http://mpactmobility.org
This month on the Mpact podcast we’re chatting with Tracy Hadden Loh of Brookings about impacts of the pandemic on downtowns, activity centers, and transit usage. We chat about creating activity center cluster maps and a recent report entitled Building Better on Philadelphia.
Building Better - Brookings
Mapping Activity Centers - Brookings
For more information, visit http://mpactmobility.org
This month on the Mpact Podcast we’re joined by Erin Clark, Chief Real Estate Investment Officer of the Denver Housing Authority. We chat about the redevelopment of Sun Valley, a public housing project built in the 1950s that is being reinvigorated by new investments in public housing, parks, and community.
To find out more about Mpact, visit http://mpactmobility.org
For more on Sun Valley:
http://denverhousing.org
http://thrivedenverliving.com
http://greenhausdenverliving.com
This month on the Mpact podcast we’re featuring a one to one conversation featuring Billy Terry, Executive Director of the National Transit Institute at Rutgers University, and India Birdsong Terry, General Manager and CEO of the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority.
For more information, visit http://mpactmobility.org
This month on the Mpact podcast, Adelee Le Grand of Intellectual Concepts is joined by Scott Wilkinson of AlphaVu for a 1 on 1 conversation. They chat about how transit agencies can get a better handle on how riders and non-riders alike feel about their service.
For more information on the annual conference or resources, visit http://mpactmobility.org
This month on the Mpact podcast we’re joined by Dr. Kathryn Howell, Director of the National Center for Smart Growth at the University of Maryland. We talk about her daily e-bike commute, organizing around the Purple Line, the importance of eviction data, and commercial displacement.
For more information visit http://Mpactmobility.org
This month on the Mpact Podcast we’re at the 2023 Mpact Conference in Phoenix Arizona. Jon Ford of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco leads a panel discussing the connections between transportation, housing, and public health.
Moderator: Jon Ford, Senior Regional Field Manager, Community Development, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA | Debarati “Mimi” Majumdar Narayan, Ph.D., Officer, Health Programs, Pew Charitable Trusts, Washington, DC | John Vu, Vice President of Strategy for Community Health, Kaiser Permanente, Berkeley, CA
This month on the Mpact podcast, we’re at the closing plenary of the Mpact Transit & Mobility conference in Phoenix. Christopher Coes, Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy at USDOT moderates a panel of experts discussing the evolution of downtowns.
Learn more about Mpact and the annual conference at http://mpactmobility.org
Moderator: Christopher Coes, Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy, Office of the Secretary, USDOT, Washington, DC
Karen Chapple, Ph.D., Director, School of Cities, University of Toronto / Professor, Department of Geography & Planning, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
Nichol Bordeaux, Chief Planning and Engagement Officer, Utah Transit Authority, Salt Lake City, UT
Dee Brewer, Executive Director, Downtown Alliance, Salt Lake City, UT
Emeke Moneme, President, Capitol Riverfront, Washington, DC
Ryan Johnson, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Culdesac, Tempe, AZ
This month on the MPact podcast we’re joined by Danielle Arigoni, Managing Director for Policy and Solutions at The National Housing Trust. We chat about Danielle’s new book Climate Resilience for an Aging Nation and housing policy that benefits everyone.
For more information about Mpact or the annual conference, visit http://mpactmobility.org
This month on the Mpact podcast we’re joined by Abby Thorne-Lyman, Director of Real Estate and Property Development at BART. We talk about BART’s development projects and priorities, and the importance of real estate to BART’s future.
For more information on the Mpact Transit and Livability conference, visit http://mpactmobility.org
This month on the Mpact Podcast we’re joined by Phoenix community builder Tim Sprague. We chat about supporting local culture through development projects and the importance of sustainable development.
For more information, visit http://mpactmobility.org
This month on the Mpact podcast we’re listening in on part 2 of a one to one conversation between David Longoria of LISC in Phoenix, and Ryan Winkle from RAIL CDC. The two of them discuss the community work they are doing in Mesa and the impact their work has on local businesses.
For more information about Mpact, visit http://mpactmobility.org
This month on the Mpact podcast we’re listening in on a one to one conversation between David Longoria of LISC in Phoenix, and Ryan Winkle from RAIL CDC. The two of them discuss the community work they are doing in Mesa, what it takes to earn trust, and getting positive results.
To find out more, visit http://Mpactmobility.org
This month on the Mpact podcast, we’re joined by Hussain Mahfouz of Transport for Cairo and Adham Kalila of Streetlight Data to talk about their new report created for NUMO All Possible Commutes: How Micromobility and Realistic Car Travel Times Impact Accessibility Analysis. We learn about measuring car travel more accurately, how micromobility can improve accessibility, and a bit about transportation in the Cairo metro region.
For more information about programs or the annual conference, visit Mpact
Today on the Mpact podcast we’re chatting with Alex Brennan, Executive Director of Futurewise in Washington State. We chat about this most recent legislative session and bills on missing middle housing, climate change, and TOD. We chat about the important topics affecting Washington State, building coalitions to pass legislation, and the type of effort need to sustain a campaign.
For more information, visit http://mpactmobility.org
This month on the Mpact podcast we’re chatting with Meghna Khanna of LA Metro and Scarlett DeLeon of the Alliance for Community Transit LA about women who ride transit. We talk about LA Metro’s first of its kind Gender Action Plan and ACT LA’s Metro as Sanctuary report.
For more information, visit Mpact's website.
This month on the MPACT podcast we’re joined by Andrew Jones, Program director for the Uptown and Downtown Oakland Community Benefits District. We chat about urban place management, how urban spaces are taken care of, and what it takes to keep them vibrant and engaging.
Also the call for speakers is now open! Put in your proposal for Phoenix today!
This month on the MPact podcast we are back at the Rail~Volution conference in Miami last fall. We chat with Commissioner Eileen Higgins about the South Dade Busway, the importance of FTA ratings in getting projects built, and why she thinks it’s important as an elected official to ride transit.
For more information visit http://mpactmobility.org
This month on the MPact podcast, we’re going back to Railvolution Miami for the Tuesday plenary. Daniel Gibson moderates a panel featuring LA Metro CEO Stephanie Wiggins, SEPTA CEO Leslie Richards, and Diana Stanley, CEO of homeless services provider The Lord’s Place to talk about homelessness and public transportation.
For more information, visit MPactmobility.org
This month on the MPact podcast we’re going back to Miami for the closing conference plenary featuring the amazing Tamika Butler. Tamika discusses community centered transit, equity, and thinking about who we’re actually planning for.
Find out more about MPact at http://mpactmobility.org
This month on the Rail~Volution podcast we’re going to the Monday morning plenary at this year’s conference in Miami.
We have a panel on Building Resilience in Miami and Across the Country hosted by NRDC Chief Climate Strategist Shelley Poticha will feature Miami Chief Heat Officer Jane Gilbert, Former Director, Environment & Sustainability Department, City of Miami Beach Elizabeth Wheaton, and the North American Regional Director of the Resilient Cities Network Laurian Farrell.
For more information, visit http://railvolution.org
This month on the Railvolution podcast we’re joined by Jacob Graham, a Program Manager for MoGo Bike Share in Detroit. Jacob chats with us about how the system works in Detroit, how bike share riders and bus riders coincide, the benefits of E-Bikes, and coordination with other organizations.
For more information about Rail~Volution visit the conference page!
This month on The Rail~volution Podcast Tien-Tien Chan of Nelson Nygaard and Jessica Roberts of Alta Planning and Design join the show to talk about Transportation Demand Management or TDM. Tien-Tien and Jessica discuss how TDM acts as the soft side of transportation and the flipside of infrastructure and the different types of programs are employed.
Find out more about the podcast and the conference at http://railvolution.org
This month on the Rail~Volution podcast, Broward MPO Executive Director Greg Stuart joins the show to talk about the history of Broward County, it's connections to the rest of South Florida, the historic MAPS transportation plan, and how they are dealing with potential sea level rise and impacts of the pandemic.
Today on the podcast we’re going back in time to a discussion we had with Jim Murley, Chief Resilience Officer for Miami Dade County, about resiliency in south florida. Jim talks about climate change, sea level rise, and how South East Florida is responding with policy and planning. The podcast was first released in June 2020. The Rail~Volution conference, originally scheduled for fall 2020, was rescheduled for 2022 due to the pandemic. Rail~Volution Miami is finally happening this October of 2022, so we wanted to bring resiliency top of mind as that will also be a focus of one of the plenaries at the conference. For more about the conference in Miami and to sign up to attend, visit Railvolution.
This month on the RailVolution podcast Kim Cella of Citizens for Modern Transit and Sheila Holm of AARP discuss how they are transforming transit stops in St. Louis. We chat about how they involve the community, engage transit operators, and bring life to grey spaces.
For more more information visit http://railvolution.org
This month on the Railvolution podcast… we’re listening in on a 1 to 1 conversation between City of Phoenix planner Elias Valencia, and community champion Victor Vidales. Elias and Victor talk about the process of creating the South Central TOD Community Plan and what it takes to create strategies that empower neighborhoods and reduce displacement.
For more information, visit http://railvolution.org
This month on the RailVolution podcast we’re having a 1 to 1 conversation between Developer Johnny Opara of JO Companies and Lea Hargett, Principal of JOG Associates. They talk about LISC’s Capacity Building programs that support developers of color, why Johnny got into development, and some of the barriers people of color face in the market which includes the many different types of capital.
This month on the Rail~Volution podcast we're joined by Harriet Tregoning, Director at NUMO, and Yonah Freemark, a senior research associate at the Urban Institute to talk about their report, Charting Out a Next-Generation, Place-Based Federal Transportation Policy. We talk what needs to change about federal policy and the entities that need to pursue it.
This month on the railvolution podcast we’re featuring a 1 to 1 conversation between Aidil Ortiz, Principal at Aidilisms and MaryKate Morookian, a transit planner at Kimley Horn. Aidil and MaryKate discuss the Durham Transit Plan and how they approached public engagement while centering the community in the process.
This month on the Rail~volution podcast we’re joined by Adie Tomer from Brookings to talk about how transit oriented development and active transportation play into climate strategies over the long term. We talk about mitigation versus adaptation strategies and what solutions work best for each.
This month on the Railvolution podcast, we are featuring a one to one conversation between Carlos Cruz-Casas, Assistant Director, Department of Transportation and Public Works for Miami Dade County, and Grace Perdomo, Executive Director of Transit Alliance. Grace and Carlos chat about the Better Bus Project, an advocacy-led community driven redesign of the Miami-Dade bus network.
This month on the Rail~Volution podcast, we’re back at this fall’s virtual conference. Former BART GM Grace Crunican moderates a panel discussing the role of board members in transit agencies with Boston’s Monica Tibbits-Nutt and Houston’s Christof Spieler.
This month on the Rail~Volution podcast, we’re at the 2021 Virtual Railvolution conference. Adelee Le Grand, CEO of the Hillsborough Area Regional Transit System in Tampa moderates a panel featuring Debra Johnson, GM and CEO of RTD in Denver and Peter Rogoff, CEO of Sound Transit in Seattle.
This month on the Rail~Volution podcast, we’re joined by staff from MARTA in Atlanta for a 1 on 1 conversation. Collie Greenwood, Deputy General Manager, and Jacob Vallo, Senior Director of TOD, Real Estate, and Art in Transit … talk with each other about the agency’s bus network redesign and their TOD program.
This month on the Railvolution podcast we’re joined by Duncan Hwong, Interim Co-Director of the Asian Pacific Network of Oregon and Gauri Rajbaidya, architect and senior associate at SERA. They chat with us about community driven development in Portland’s Jade District and how it's connected to the rest of the region.
This week on the RailVolution Podcast we’re joined by the new Rail~volution CEO Tamar Shapiro. We chat about her previous work at in cities and transportation, how to better measure transportation success and the transportation parades at German soccer stadiums.
This month on The Railvolution Podcast we’re featuring a 1 to 1 conversation between Dan Baer, Senior Vice President at WSP USA and Kevin Corbett, President and CEO of New Jersey Transit. Dan and Kevin talk about New Jersey transit’s response to the pandemic, transit oriented development, bus electrification and much much more.
On this month’s episode of the Rail~Volution podcast, we’re chatting with Chris Puchalsky and Andrew Simpson of the Philadelphia Office of Transportation, Infrastructure, and Sustainability. We talk about the The Philadelphia Transit Plan, regional rail, and agency coordination.
On this month’s episode of the Railvolution podcast we’re joined by Robert del Rosario, Director of Service Development for AC Transit in Oakland and the East Bay California. Robert talks about agency coordination during the pandemic, what’s needed to get riders coming back, and what sustainable revenue might look like going forward.
This month on the Rail~Volution podcast we're joined by Sharon Roerty, Senior Program Officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Maki Kawaguchi, a Director at Gehl to talk about the Inclusive Healthy Places Framework. Sharon and Maki talk about the importance of creating spaces that bring dignity to all users, the importance of evaluating existing spaces, and creating a data driven and people first approach to creating inclusive healthy places.
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This month on the Railvolution Podcast I’m joined by Dan Nissenbaum, CEO of the Low Income Investment Fund. We chat with Dan about Liif’s many different projects including early childhood education and housing, and how to connect transportation to community development.
On this episode of the Rail~Volution podcast, we’re talking again about bus electrification. Erica Eggleton of the University of Washington joins us to chat about her work on Route Dynamics, an open source program that estimates the energy demand for electric bus routes run by King County Metro.
This week, we’re joined by Camron Gorguinpour, Director of Mobility Solutions for ENGIE Impact . We talk about Shenzhen’s 16,000 electric buses and what world cities can learn positive and negative from their implementation. Gorguinpour also discusses infrastructure needs for electric bus operations at a fleet level, the impact of street maintenance, and procurement and implementation issues.
On this month’s episode of the Rail~Volution podcast, Angie Rivera Mal-pied-e, Board Chair of the Regional Transportation District in Denver talks with Cindy Chavez, Former Board Chair of the VTA and Current Santa Clara County Supervisor. These two Latina leaders chat about leadership and getting communities involved in transportation.
This month on the Rail~Volution podcast, we're sharing the closing keynote discussion of the 2020 conference. Moderated by Smart Growth America CEO Calvin Gladney, Roberto Requejo of Elevated Chicago, Dr. Adonia Lugo, and Joshua Schank of LA Metro discuss the challenges and hopes the future of livable communities bring. They discuss equity in decision making, thinking outside of silos, whether metrics are equitable or not, and a have a few inspirational thoughts to bring us all into 2021.
As Transit Oriented Development has evolved over 25 years the transit and mobility landscape has been radically transformed by new technology, land-use patterns, and the sharing economy, especially in recent years. Peter Calthorpe, a pioneer of innovative approaches to urban revitalization, suburban growth, and regional planning, will share new research with some win-win models to consider with moderator Allison Brooks.
On this month’s episode of the Rail~Volution podcast, Nilda Ruiz and Rose Gray of Asociación Puertorriqueños en Marcha (APM) join the show to talk about how they’ve been able to build community through TOD while promoting health, wellness, and a green future.
On this special episode of the Rail~Volution podcast, Verdran Dzebic and Ntianu Eastmond-Visani join us to talk about wayfinding apps and how improved wayfinding can enhance the customer experience.
This month on the Rail~Volution podcast, Mesa Arizona City Council Member Francisco Heredia and Charlotte City Council Member Braxton Winston talk with each other about their journeys from being an advocate to elected officials. They talk about the challenges and opportunities their cities have related to transportation and development of the city.
This month on the Rail~Volution podcast we are chatting with Stephanie Gidigbi, Director of Policy and Partnerships for the Natural Resources Defense Council. Stephanie joins us to talk about federal policy, connections between transportation and race, and much more!
This month on the Rail~Volution podcast, we're joined by David Huffaker, Chief Development Officer for the Port Authority of Allegheny County in the Pittsburgh region. David joins us to chat about transit operations during the pandemic, emergency planning, the agency's equity index, and the future of streets.
This month on the Railvolution podcast, we're joined by Dr. Georges Benjamin, Director of the American Public Health Association. Dr. Benjamin joins us to talk about the determinants of health and how certain investments can change health outcomes for the better.
This month on the Rail~Volution podcast we are chatting with Jim Murley, Chief Resilience Officer for Miami-Dade County Florida. Jim talks about climate change, sea level rise, and how South East Florida is responding with policy and planning.
This month on the Rail~Volution podcast, April Bertelsen, Transit Modal Coordinator with the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) joins us to talk about the Rose Lanes Project. April chats about implementation, public engagement, and the benefits of the pilot project approach.
This month we're joined by Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner to talk about the city's Complete Communities program.
This month on the Rail~Volution podcast we're joined by Lindiwe Rennert, Transit Planner at the City of Boston. She chats with us about her work on the Warren Street corridor; the creation of bus priority for the many riders on the corridor and how to get feedback on projects.
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This month on the Rail~Volution podcast we are chatting with Adrienne Heim and Rafe Rabalais from the SFMTA about the Potrero Yard electric bus and housing project. We chat about modernization, planning, electricity use and much much more!
This month on the Rail~Volution podcast we are chatting with Alice Bravo and Carlos Cruz-Casas, Director and Assistant Director respectively of Miami Dade County’s Department of Transportation and Public Works. We chat about better buses, managing the right of way, privacy and data, and their contactless fare payment system.
This month we're joined by Grace Crunican, former GM at BART. Grace chats about her long and distinguished career as a leader in transportation and what it takes to lead, to mentor, and gives lessons for the next generation of advocates and public officials.
This month we're back at the 2019 Rail~Volution conference in Vancouver BC. We chat with GB Arrington and Steve Dotterer about the early days of Rail~Volution and what the conference has meant to transportation in the United States. They also tell stories about conferences past from when Al Gore came to Portland to having to move the conference date due to 9/11. Join us for a fun look at the past and the future.
This month we're at the Rail~Volution conference and join the final plenary of Vancouver 2019. Mac McCarthy of the Lincoln Institute, Lisa Bender, President of the City Council for Minneapolis, and Odetta MacLeish-White Managing Director of the Transformation Alliance.
The panel, moderated by Railvolution lifer GB Arrington discusses leadership, embracing the lived experience of riders, and to a small degree the future of the movement.
This month on the Rail~Volution podcast, we're joined by Sound Transit's Deputy Executive Director for Land Use Planning and Development Brooke Belman, Land Use Planning Manager Sloan Dawson, and TOD Program Manager Thatcher Imboden to talk about how Sound Transit in the Seattle region coordinates land use and transportation decisions. They talk about the 80-80-80 program, managing timelines and expectations, and the future for the integration of transit investments with development.
This month on the Rail~Volution podcast we are joined By Gordon Price, former member of the Vancouver BC City Council. Gordon talks about everything Vancouver from its humble beginnings to its urban planning lessons as well as what folks should be looking to see when they visit.
This month we're joined by Andrew Owen, Director of the Accessibility Observatory at the University of Minnesota. Andrew talks about his work at the Accessibility Observatory and how we measure how we access important destinations. He mentions the importance of land use, why 30 minutes of time is a good way to look at access, and how transportation agencies can think about access in the future. Andrew also teases a future report that will look at bike access as well.
This month on the Rail~Volution podcast we are joined By Bowinn MA, Member of the British Columbia Legislative Assembly for North Vancouver-Lonsdale BC. Bowinn talks about creating better transportation options for her constituents, new transportation technologies, and the importance of political engagement.
This month on the Rail~Volution podcast we're joined by Amy Silbermann of the Port Authority of Allegheny County in Pittsburgh and Steven Higashide and Mary Buchanan of TransitCenter to talk about the deeper issues of transit ridership. We talk about the places that are increasing ridership like Pittsburgh and TransitCenter's new report Who's on Board.
This month on the Rail~Volution podcast we chat with Maurice Jones, President of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation or LISC. Maurice talks about how he got into community development, their involvement in a new Bay Area housing initiative, and the potential for investments to make big changes for the better.
This month on the Rail~Volution podcast we chat with Eileen Evert and Brian Ebersole of Springboard Health to think about the 80% of patient health that happen outside of the hospital including transportation and access to healthy food. They chat about their program NEPA Moves that focuses on sustainable transportation and has piloted transportation programs for hospital patients in urban and rural areas.
This month we're joined by Vanan Murugesan, Director of Design and Innovation at Pillsbury United Communities. He talks about how human centered design has impacted how he thinks about community building and building a community centered grocery store.
This month on the Rail~Volution podcast we're joined by Laura Loe of Share the Cities. Laura talks about being a bus driver and housing activist and how to talk to parents about opposition to housing.
This roundtable at the Tuesday morning plenary at the Rail~Volution Conference in Pittsburgh this October featured speakers from Ford, Lyft, The City of Minneapolis and Jarrett Walker + Associates.
Emcee: Robin Hutcheson, AICP, Director of Public Works, City of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, MN
Jarrett Walker, Principal Consultant, Jarrett Walker + Associates; blogger on HumanTransit.org, Portland, OR
Joseph Okpaku, Vice President of Public Policy, Lyft, San Francisco, CA
Aniela Kuzon, Global Lead, City of Tomorrow Challenge, Ford Motor Company, Detroit, MI
At the Rail~Volution conference this year, Jarrett Walker gave the Tuesday morning keynote. This is part one of a two part series. Part 2, Episode 11, is the round table that took place after Jarrett's keynote speech.
This month on the Rail~Volution podcast, Dr. Manuel Pastor joins us to talk about a whole host of subjects from place based community organizing to the environmental justice screen method and rent control. He brings a new perspective to demographic change in LA and has some thoughts on turning academic work into policy.
This month we're joined by Kari Watkins, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech and co-founder and "Chief Motivator" of OneBusAway, an open source platform for real time transit info. Kari talks about her research into the role of technology in the evolving transit experience, how Atlanta has changed in the 7 years she's lived there and the difference between teaching undergrads and grad students about transportation.
This month on the Rail~Volution podcast we're joined by Chloe Spano of Cityway to talk about how cities can better use data to support mobility solutions. We chat about Paris' limits on single occupancy vehicles using real time information to get ready for the Olympics and what is needed to get ready for a future where mobility is a service.
This month on the Railvolution Podcast, former President and CEO of the Low Income Investment Fund (Liif) Nancy Andrews joins us. Nancy and I chat about community development, poverty reduction strategies, and the Bay Area Transit Oriented Housing Fund.
This month on the Rail~Volution podcast, Patrick Siegman joins us to chat on the topic of parking. We chat about the etymology of the word parking, the legend that is Donald Shoup, and why the topic of parking gets so personal.
This month on the Rail~Volution Podcast, Odetta MacLeish White of the Transformation Alliance joins us to talk about transportation and planning issues in the Atlanta region. Odetta talks about displacement pressures on the Atlanta Beltline, the history of segregation in planning, and the big changes coming to advocacy and equity in the Atlanta region.
This week we're joined by LA Metro CEO Phil Washington to talk about the many interesting things the agency is working on. He discusses building affordable housing near transit, testing new ideas like microtransit, and the origins of Metro's Office of Extraordinary Innovation.
This week we're joined by Mariia Zimmerman of MZ Strategies to discuss the evolution of livable communities at the federal level as well as the past and future of TOD.
Today on The Rail~Volution podcast, we’re talking with Former Director of the Central Corridor Funders Collaborative Jonathan Sage Martinson. We’ll chat about advocacy and work that the collaborative did along the Green Line Light Rail between Minneapolis and St. Paul.