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Join us for a 1-1 Conversation with Grace Perdomo, Executive Director of Transit Alliance Miami, and Carlos Cruz-Casas, Deputy Director of the Miami-Dade County Department of Transportation and Public Works, about how a nonprofit organization led a major bus network redesign in cooperation with county transit officials.

How do transit board members lead change and bring community voice? Find out in this conversation with Monica Tibbits-Nutt, former Vice-Chair of the MBTA’s Fiscal and Management Control Board, and Christof Spieler, a former board member for Houston METRO, moderated by Grace Crunican, former General Manager of Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) in San Francisco, and a current member of the Rail~Volution Board of Directors. This was a session at the 2021 Rail~Volution virtual conference.

This episode presents a conversation between transit agency CEOs: Debra Johnson, CEO and General Manager of the Regional Transportation District (RTD) in Denver and Peter Rogoff, CEO of Sound Transit in Seattle, moderated by Adelee Le Grand, CEO of the Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority (HART) in Tampa. This was the Wednesday plenary at the 2021 Rail~Volution virtual conference.

A 1-1 Conversation between Collie Greenwood, Deputy General Manager of Operations at MARTA, and Jacob Vallo, Senior Director of TOD & Real Estate at MARTA.

A 1-1 Conversation between Collie Greenwood, Deputy General Manager of Operations at MARTA, and Jacob Vallo, Senior Director of TOD & Real Estate at MARTA.

Episode 47 Transcript (Unedited)

On our latest podcast, we get to know Rail~Volution’s new CEO, Tamar Shapiro. 

On this episode of the Rail~Volution Podcast, Kevin Corbett, President and CEO of NJ TRANSIT, talks with WSP’s Dan Baer about the turn-around at NJ TRANSIT, a process Corbett compares to “getting out of the transit hunger games.” 

We’re joined by Christopher Puchalsky and Andrew Simpson from the Philadelphia Office of Technology, Infrastructure and Sustainability to talk about The Philadelphia Transit Plan, regional rail improvements, transit service levels and agency coordination.

We’re joined by Robert del Rosario, Director of Service Development and Planning at AC Transit in the Bay Area in California. Find out how regional operators are coordinating in unprecedented ways to try to “do this recovery correctly.”

On this episode, we’re joined by Sharon Roerty and Maki Kawaguchi, who describe the origins and uses of a framework for understanding, creating and measuring public spaces.

Episode 42 Transcript

On this episode, Dan Nissenbaum describes how the Low Income Investment Fund (LIIF) is working to deliver capital to projects that advance racial equity.

On this episode, we’re talking with Erica Eggleton about estimating the energy demand of electric buses.

On this episode, Camron Gorguinpour, PhD, Director of Mobility Solutions at ENGIE Impact, describes the implementation of 16,000 electric buses in Shenzhen, China, and what we can learn.

This episode is a 1-1 Conversation between Angie Rivera-Malpiede, Chair of the Board of Directors of Denver’s Regional Transportation District, and Cindy Chavez, a member of the boards of  Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA), Caltrain, and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission in California.

This episode features four passionate speakers about how to navigate forward from the challenges of 2020. We’re joined by Calvin Gladney, CEO of Smart Growth America; Adonia Lugo, PhD, interim chair of the urban sustainability program at Antioch University Los Angeles and a core organizer for The Untokening; Roberto Requejo, Program Director at Elevated Chicago; and Dr. Joshua Schank, Chief Innovation Officer at the LA Metro Office of Extraordinary Innovation. This episode is a recording of the October 12 closing keynote from the Rail~Volution 2020 virtual conference.