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| September 12, 2024

Episode 84: Wins and Co-benefits from Climate Work

A 1 to 1 Conversation about climate resilience, transit, sustainability and the intersection of all of the above, with Julie Eaton Ernst, Climate Resilience Practice Leader at HNTB, and Dr. Cris Liban, Chief Sustainability Officer at LA Metro.

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| March 18, 2021

Episode 40: Open Source Electric Bus

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

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| March 3, 2021

Episode 39: Electric Bus Opportunities and Barriers

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.

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| February 4, 2021

Episode 38: Latina Leaders in Transit

A conversation with 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.

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| January 6, 2021

Episode 37: Acknowledge History, Shift Power, Embrace Accountability

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.

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| December 3, 2020

Episode 36: The Answer is the Arterial

We’re joined by Peter Calthorpe, Senior Vice President, HDR | Calthorpe, one of our foremost thinkers about urban design and an innovator of transit-oriented development, along with Allison Brooks, Executive Director of the Bay Area Regional Collaborative (BARC). This podcast is a recording of a keynote discussion from the Rail~Volution 2020 transit and community development conference.

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| November 12, 2020

Episode 35: The Healthy Heart of a Community

We’re joined by Nilda Ruiz, President and Chief Executive Officer,  and Rose Gray, Senior Vice President, Community and Economic Development, both at APM  (The Asociación Puertorriqueños en Marcha or Association of Puerto Ricans on the March).

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| October 21, 2020

Episode 34: Wayfinding in a Stroller Land – A 1:1 Conversation

Vedran Dzebic is head of R&D for Entro, a signage and wayfinding company with expertise in transportation. Ntianu Eastmond-Visani is a mom, with a background in retail and a passion for making the New York subway system easier to navigate for caregivers with kids and strollers.

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| October 2, 2020

Episode 33: Advocate to Elected: A 1:1 Conversation with Francisco Heredia and Braxton Winston

This Rail~Volution podcast introduces a new format we will use from time to time – of two guests speaking with each other. Let’s listen as Francisco Heredia a city council member in Mesa, AZ, and Braxton Winston, a city councilmember in Charlotte,  NC, talk about their work as advocates and elected officials as well as their vision for transit in their communities.

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| September 9, 2020

Episode 32: Liberating Transportation

We’re joined by Stephanie Gidigbi, a community champion and systems strategist. Among her many professional roles, she is developing a racial resilience training program, including focus on transportation equity.

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| August 6, 2020

Episode 31: Optimizing Transit — For the Pandemic and Community

Hear about the factors involved in one transit agency’s response to COVID-19 and their efforts to improve the quality of the transit experience for their riders, with David Huffaker, Chief Development Officer for the Port Authority of Allegheny County.

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| July 9, 2020

Episode 30: Build with Health in Mind

Dr. Georges Benjamin, Executive Director of the American Public Health Association, joins us to explore the linkage between health, transportation and the built environment.

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| June 4, 2020

Episode 29: Resiliency in South Florida

Jim Murley, Chief Resiliency Officer for Miami-Dade County, joins us, describing how South Florida takes a comprehensive approach to resiliency. We spoke to him earlier this spring, as the county was beginning to respond to COVID-19. Due to the pandemic, the Rail~Volution conference in Miami is rescheduled to October 2022.

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| May 7, 2020

Episode 28: A Network of Rose Lanes

April Bertelsen, transit modal planner with the City of Portland Bureau of Transportation, joins us to share all the details about the Rose Lanes initiative to create a bus priority network. This is the second in a series about bus priority. Please also see Episode 26, “Corridors Where Bus is King,” with Lindiwe Rennert, a transit planner with the City of Boston Transportation Department

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| April 1, 2020

Episode 27: Houston’s Complete Communities

We’re joined by Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner. He describes the city’s Complete Communities program and why he has made it a priority.

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| March 5, 2020

Episode 26: Corridors Where Bus is King

We’re joined by Lindiwe Rennert, Transit Planner with the City of Boston Transportation Department.

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