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With the Mpact Podcast, we’re delving deeper into what it takes to build more just and sustainable communities around transit. Look for a new podcast around the start of every month.

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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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Podcast Archives

| 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)

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| 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)

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| 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.

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| 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.

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| July 30, 2018

Episode 6: Investing in People

We’re joined by Nancy Andrews, longtime leader in community development finance.

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| 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!

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| June 7, 2018

Episode 4: The New Atlanta Way

We’re joined by Odetta MacLeish-White, Managing Director of Atlanta’s TransFormation Alliance.

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| May 2, 2018

Episode 3: The Lens Called Equity

We’re joined by LA Metro CEO, Phil Washington, to talk about the evolving role of transit agencies in the life of cities. He discusses building affordable housing near transit, testing new ideas like microtransit, and the origins of Metro’s Office of Extraordinary Innovation.

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| April 5, 2018

Episode 2: The Once and Future Livable Community

Mariia Zimmerman recaps her experience with the evolving conversation about transit and livable communities, from the days of proving transit-oriented development as a concept (including some blind spots) to TOD as a mobility hub. The goal: “creating great places where people across all income levels can live.”

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| February 24, 2018

Episode 1: Equity Strategies for a Transportation Corridor

We’re talking with Jonathan Sage Martinson, former director of the Central Corridor Funders Collaborative, about the very deliberate steps taken to ensure community participation in defining the outcomes from a new light rail transit line the Twin Cities.

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