Jeff Wood
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Talking Headways Podcast: Fixing Mobility as a Service
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We chat with David Hensher about the failures of the "Mobility as a Service" concept, which proposed to reduce emissions but uniting disparate transportation modes under a single service.
Talking Headways Podcast: Roadways for People
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We chat with Oregon Metro Council President Lynn Peterson about her book Roadways for People: Rethinking Transportation Planning and Engineering — plus better project scoping, capacity building, engineers going to actually walk and bike their project areas, and highway expansion in cities.
Talking Headways Podcast: A Miami-Dade Voice for Bus Rapid Transit
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We chat with Miami-Dade County 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.
Talking Headways Podcast: The Messiness of Family Travel
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This week we’re joined again by Dr. Jennifer Kent of the University of Sydney to talk about her work on family transportation, the messiness of travel for parents, and loneliness and the built environment. She also shares what parents might need to travel more sustainably.
Talking Headways Podcast: Can Everyone be a Landscape Architect? No!
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Let's talk about food deserts and transportation access and the American Society of Landscape Architects Climate Action Plan.
Talking Headways Podcast: The Overlap of Public Transit and Homelessness
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Here's a very good conversation about the need for more federal agency coordination among transportation, health, and human services as well as how transit agencies are tackling the issues vulnerable populations face.
Talking Headways Podcast: Why We Travel — To Reach Destinations, Of Course
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The new buzzword is "accessibility," but not in the traditional ADA sense, but rather meaning how can we get transit to make it possible for everyone to get to the places they need to get to?
Talking Headways Podcast: Get on the Fast Bus!
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This week, Colin Parent, executive director of Circulate San Diego, comes on the program to talk about his new report, "Fast Bus! How San Diego Can Make Progress by Speeding Up the Bus." That title should say it all!
Talking Headways Podcast: Get on the Fast Bus!
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This week, Colin Parent, executive director of Circulate San Diego, comes on the program to talk about his new report, "Fast Bus! How San Diego Can Make Progress by Speeding Up the Bus." That title should say it all!
Talking Headways Podcast: Policy Transfer in Southeast Asia
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On this week's podcast, let's talk about congestion in Asia!
Talking Headways Podcast: What Does a Transportation Lobbyist Do?
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"It’s good to have different people with different ideas around the table sort of hashing things out and working on, you know, very pressing and important issues," says the lobbyist.
Talking Headways Podcast: Building the Right Urban Sound
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This week, I'm joined by Michiel Huijsman for a fascinating talk about how to think about the positive aspect of urban soundscapes — and how everyone hears everything differently.