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Talking Headways Podcast: Asphalt – A History
This week we’re joined by Kenneth O’Reilly to talk about his book "Asphalt: A History." We chat about, um, asphalt (which is actually fascinating!).
October 14, 2021
Talking Headways Podcast: How Berlin Encourages Active Transportation
This week we’re joined by Roland Stimpel of the German Pedestrian Association Fussverkehr. Stimpel chats with us about Berlin’s new mobility laws, including the 2018 Mobility Act and 2021’s pedestrian law amendments. We also talk about SUVs, the struggle to find public servants, and Ampelmännchen, the traffic-light man.
October 7, 2021
Talking Headways Podcast: What We Can Do to Depave Cities
This week on the podcast, we're joined by Mary Pat McGuire, associate professor of landscape architecture at the University of Illinois. McGuire talks with us about what happens to water after it hits the pavement, the damaging environmental effects of covering cities in pavement, and steps we can take to reduce runoff in green cities.
September 30, 2021
Talking Headways Podcast: The Built Environment Memory Hole
This week we’re joined by Tufts Professor Justin Hollander. Hollander chats with us about a range of topics, including VMT Taxes, using eye-tracking software to measure the effects of the built environment on people’s minds, and the most recent census release.
September 9, 2021
Talking Headways Podcast: Biking to the Stadium
This week we’re joined by new Rail~Volution CEO Tamar Shapiro. We chat about her previous work in transportation and city planning at organizations such as NUMO and The Governor's Institute, how to measure transportation success, and the "transportation parades" before German soccer games.
September 2, 2021
Talking Headways Podcast: How We’ve Subsidized Driving (and What to Do About It)
This week we’re joined by Todd Litman, executive director of the Victoria Transport Policy Institute. Litman discusses his book "New Mobilities: Smart Planning for Emerging Transportation Technologies." We reframe the transportation investments we make, talk about sharing information, and discuss why air taxis might not be the future.
August 26, 2021
Talking Headways Podcast: No More Transit Hunger Games
This week Dan Baer, senior vice president at WSP, talks with Kevin Corbett, president and CEO of New Jersey Transit. In this one-on-one conversation, Baer and Corbett talk about NJ Transit’s response to the pandemic, bus electrification, new technologies, and much more.
July 29, 2021
Talking Headways Podcast: This Food Pyramid Would be All Cars
This week we’re joined by Zabe Bent, director of design for the National Association of City Transportation Officials. We chat about how we think too much about the future and growth, the MUTCD process, and how she would start the design an infrastructure bill.
July 22, 2021
Talking Headways Podcast: Man’s Best Friend on Transit
This week we’re joined by Dr. Jennifer Kent, senior research fellow in urbanism at the Sydney School of Architecture. Kent talks with us about why we travel, the effect of family on our travel behavior, and the idea of “messy trips.” But, mostly, we talk about how dogs effect people’s trip choices, whether they will get a car just for the dog or be willing to get rid of a car because the transit system will let them take their dogs.
July 15, 2021
Talking Headways Podcast: Coordinating Pandemic Transit
This week we’re joined by Robert del Rosario, director of service development for AC Transit in Oakland to talk about the pandemic, what’s needed to get riders coming back, and what sustainable revenue might look like going forward.
July 1, 2021