Talking Headways Podcast: The Humble Curb
This week, we’re joined by Stephen Smyth, co-founder and CEO of Coord. He talks about his company’s digital infrastructure keeps inventory of our existing infrastructure assets, especially curb space....
View ArticleTalking Headways Podcast: Transit-Oriented Bus and Rail in Chicago
This week, we chat with Kendra Freeman of the Chicago Metropolitan Planning Council, an independent non-profit focused on shaping the Chicago region. Freeman talks about her work with Elevated Chicago...
View ArticleTalking Headways Podcast: The Pulse of Richmond, Virginia
This week, we’re joined by Maritza Pechin, a planner with AECOM who works with city staff in Richmond on long-range planning. On the podcast, Pechin talks about the Pulse Bus Rapid Transit and the...
View ArticleTalking Headways Podcast: The ‘Intelligent’ Transportation Future
This week, we’re joined by Shailen Bhatt, president and CEO of ITS America. He talks about how we can use technology to reduce collisions, how we should spend infrastructure money, and what policy...
View ArticleTalking Headways Podcast: The Potential of Real-Time Information
This week on the podcast we’re joined by Candace Brakewood, a civil engineering professor at the University of Tennessee, and Jonny Simkin, the co-founder and CEO of Swiftly. We talk about real-time...
View ArticleTalking Headways Podcast: Urban Journalism with Nate Berg
Sponsored post: Spin and Better Block Foundation are calling on designers, urbanists and anyone who cares about safe and livable streets, to submit ideas for a new generation of multimodal parklets....
View ArticleTalking Headways Podcast: Who’s Riding Transit in 2019?
This week, we’re joined by Amy Silbermann, director of Planning for Port Authority of Allegheny County, the transit agency in Pittsburgh; and Steven Higashide and Mary Buchanan of TransitCenter. They...
View ArticleTalking Headways Podcast: Highways in the Sky with Dr. Astro
This week on the podcast, we journeyed to the Michelin Movin’ On Summit to chat with Dr. Anita Sengupta, an aerospace engineer who has worked for Virgin Hyperloop and is the co-founder of Airspace...
View ArticleTalking Headways Podcast: The View from North Vancouver
This week, we are joined by Bowinn Ma, a Member of the British Columbia Legislative Assembly for North Vancouver-Lonsdale, British Columbia. Ma talks about creating better transportation options for...
View ArticleTalking Headways Podcast: Charlotte’s Transit-Oriented Zoning Innovations
This week, we’re joined by Monica Holmes, placemaking manager for the City of Charlotte and the project manager for the rewrite of the transit-oriented development zoning ordinance. Holmes talks about...
View ArticleTalking Headways Podcast: Vehicle Miles Traveled and Electric Utilities
This week, we’re joined by Fred Dock, the former transportation director for the City of Pasadena. Dock talks about his work over the past 30 years, Pasadena’s move to measuring vehicle miles traveled...
View ArticleTalking Headways Podcast: Access as a Metric
This week, we are joined by Andrew Owen, director of the Accessibility Observatory at the University of Minnesota. Access is a way to measure how easy it is to get places — often jobs — in how much...
View ArticleTalking Headways Podcast: Electric Bus Opportunities and Barriers
This week, we’re joined by Camron Gorguinpour, global senior manager for electric vehicles at WRI’s Ross Center for Sustainable Cities. We talk about Shenzhen’s 16,000 electric buses and what world...
View ArticleTalking Headways Podcast: ‘The Farm Bill’ with Dan Imhoff
This week, we’re joined by Dan Imhoff to talk about his book, The Farm Bill — and how Imhoff became interested in eponymous legislation, and how he got pulled down a rabbit hole of subsidies and...
View ArticleTalking Headways Podcast: The Village at the Edge of the Rainforest
This week, we’re joined by Gordon Price, former Vancouver City Council member and former director of The City Program at Simon Fraser University. Price talks about Vancouver’s historical importance as...
View ArticleTalking Headways Podcast: New Thinking on Economic Development Investments
This week on the podcast we’re joined by Adie Tomer a fellow at The Brookings Institution and Noah Siegel, Interim Deputy Director at the Portland Bureau of Transportation to talk about their new...
View ArticleTalking Headways Podcast: Designing Ninja-Proof Seats
This week, we’re joined by Lily Bernheimer of Space Works Consulting. Bernheimer, a Streetsblog/Open Plans Alum, talks to us about her book “The Shaping of Us: How Every Day Spaces Structure our Lives,...
View ArticleTalking Headways Podcast: Sidewalk Labs and Toronto’s Waterfront
This week, we’re joined by Eric Jaffe, editorial director at Sidewalk Labs. Jaffe chats with us about Sidewalk’s Quayside project on Toronto’s waterfront, about the potential for innovative ideas,...
View ArticleTalking Headways Podcast: Integrated Trips for People Not Vehicles
This week we’re joined by Arielle Fleisher Transportation Policy Director at SPUR, Adina Levin, Executive Director of Friends of Caltrain, and Ian Griffiths Co-Founder and Director of Seamless Bay Area...
View ArticleTalking Headways Podcast: The Right Way to Prioritize Projects
This week, we’re joined by Beth Osborne of T4 America and Chris McCahill of the State Smart Transportation Initiative. We talk about how states like Virginia and Hawaii are using data on access to...
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