Podcast Episodes

Episode 542: Measuring Transportation System Success

This week we're joined once again by professor Karel Martens of Technion Israel Institute of Technology. We learn about how transportation engineering is good at measuring only one problem and ignor…

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

Episode 541: Reclaiming the Road

This week we're joined by Oxford Ohio City Councilor and Miami of Ohio geography professor, David Prytherch. We chat about his new book Reclaiming the Road: Mobility Justice beyond Complete Streets. …

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

Episode 175: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - The City That Lost Its Zoning

This week we're Han Solo but we've got some great items to discuss with you all. We talk about how Salt Lake lost its street design, how Charlottesville lost its zoning code, and the importance of tr…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

Episode 540: Localities Subsidize the State DOT

This week on the Talking Headways podcast we're joined by Adie Tomer of Brookings to discuss a paper he and his team wrote about the idea of regional block grants. He discusses the local subsidies go…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Flashback: Fixing Mobility as a Service

This week we're joined by David Hencher, Director of the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies at the University of Sydney.  David chats about how to fix Mobility as a Service, why transportat…

Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago

Episode 174: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - A Bike Share Triathlon

This week we're Han Solo again, but we discuss lead pollution and serial killers, PM 1 micro-pollution, and how ICE raids are reducing transit ridership in Los Angeles.

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Published on 6 months ago

Episode 539: Testing Universal Basic Mobility

This week we're joined by Madeline Brozen of the UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies. We talk about universal basic mobility and research her team has done on the LA Mobility Wallet Pilot P…

Published on 6 months ago

Episode 538: Small Scale Manufacturing in Cities

This week we're joined by Ilana Preuss of Recast City to talk about small scale manufacturing in cities. We discuss the commercial side of economic development, the types of jobs we are creati…

Published on 6 months, 1 week ago

Episode 173: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Is This Podcast a Third Place?

This week on the podcast, we're Han Solo but there's still a lot of news to share! We talk about research that shows how active transportation can reduce emissions even more than before, the ever gro…

Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago

Episode 537: Creating Positive Soundscapes in Cities

This week we're joined by Chris Berdik to talk about his book Clamor: How Noise Took Over the World and How We Can Take it Back. We discuss the impacts of road noise on health and wellbeing, how our…

Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago