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Podcast | April 17, 2023
Episode 66: Women Who Ride Transit
We’re joined by Scarlett De Leon, Campaigns Director at Alliance for Community Transit – Los Angeles and Meghna Khanna, Senior Director, Mobility Corridors, Countywide Planning & Development at Los Angeles Metro.
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Podcast | August 8, 2019
Episode 19: The Village at the Edge of the Rainforest
On this podcast we’re joined by Gordon Price for an insider’s view of Vancouver, how it developed and what might be next on the horizon.
Podcast | July 11, 2019
Episode 18: Access as a Metric
How easy is it to get the places we want to go? Andrew Owen, director of the Accessibility Observatory at the University of Minnesota, gives us a new way to look at places – through the lens of accessibility.
Podcast | June 4, 2019
Episode 17: The View from North Vancouver, BC
We’re joined by Bowinn Ma, a transportation engineer who represents North Vancouver-Lonsdale in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. She also is the parliamentary secretary for TransLink, the regional transportation authority.
Podcast | May 9, 2019
Episode 16: Riders are Never Really Gone
On this episode we’re talking transit ridership with Amy Silbermann, Director of Planning for Port Authority of Allegheny County, the transit agency in Pittsburgh, and Steven Higashide and Mary Buchanan, co-authors of Transit Center’s Who’s On Board 2019, a report based on surveys of transit riders.
Podcast | April 4, 2019
Episode 15: Maurice Jones: High Impact Investing in Low Wealth Communities
“We have an imperfect system. Inherent in it is the risk of generating inequality. What you need is a coalition of people who want to do good, who want to transform the system so that more people can share in the prosperity.” — Maurice Jones
Podcast | March 11, 2019
Episode 14: Treating the Whole Person
How do healthcare providers approach the social determinants of health, including transportation? On the podcast, Brian Ebersole and Eileen Evert share the approach to “treating the whole person” that led Geisinger Health System to launch a pilot program with regional partners to address the transportation barriers of a specific group of patients. For regular listeners of the Rail~Volution podcast, this episode offers a view of the motivation of an anchor institution to be part of a transportation initiative – how it works on the ground, and how views of transportation change as a result.
Podcast | February 6, 2019
Episode 13: Human-Centered Design in a Food Desert
On this episode we’re joined by Vanan Murugesan, Director of Design and Innovation at Pillsbury United Communities, a human services organization in Minneapolis that recently opened a nonprofit grocery store, North Market.
Podcast | January 3, 2019
Episode 12: Transit + Housing = PB+J, with Laura Loe
We’re excited to welcome Laura Loe to the Rail~Volution podcast. She currently is a community activist with Share the Cities in Seattle and a bus driver.
Podcast | December 6, 2018
Episode 11: Lyft, Ford, Transit and Cities – What Works for Whom?
This month, the Rail~Volution podcast features the plenary conversation at Rail~Volution 2018 in Pittsburgh about new mobility, transit and cities. (Part 2)
Podcast | December 4, 2018
Episode 10: Elephants, Wine Glasses, and the Certainty of Transit
This month, the Rail~Volution podcast features the plenary conversation at Rail~Volution 2018 in Pittsburgh about new mobility, transit and cities. (Part 1)
Podcast | November 9, 2018
Episode 9: Community Organizing, Equity, and Place
Professor of Sociology and American Studies & Ethnicity, University of Southern California, and Director of USC’s Program for Environmental and Regional Equity (PERE) and the USC Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration (CSII)
Podcast | October 4, 2018
Episode 8: Thinking About Collective Mobility
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech and co-founder and “Chief Motivator” of OneBusAway, an open source platform for real time transit info.
Podcast | September 4, 2018
Episode 7: Getting to Mobility as a Service
We’re joined by Chloe Spano for a look at integrated mobility systems and the idea of mobility as a service.
Podcast | July 30, 2018
Episode 6: Investing in People
We’re joined by Nancy Andrews, longtime leader in community development finance.
Podcast | July 4, 2018
Episode 5: The First Shoupista
We’re joined by Patrick Siegman to unpack automobile parking – perhaps the most subsidized element of transportation!