This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we delve into sameness around the world, climate change extremes, and Amsterdam’s red light district.

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This week we’re chatting with David Wasserman of Alta Planning and Mike Flaxman of Heavy.AI about generative artificial intelligence. We chat about what generative AI is and how it is trained, and some of the ways it could be used or misused in a planning and transportation context.

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This week we’re joined by Paula DiPerna to talk about her book Pricing the Priceless: The Financial Transformation to Value the Planet, Solve the Climate Crisis, and Protect Our Most Precious Assets. We chat about how nature is working for us for free and how we should value those services as well as the financial mechanisms we could use to save the planet. She also shares how she got the Vatican to pledge to go net zero and lessons from working with Jacques Cousteau.

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This week on the podcast we are solo and chatting about a lot of different topics from banning drive thrus to AI bias, to impacts of climate change. We also dive into the week of the cone here in San Francisco.

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This week we’re joined by Mike Warren, Senior Vice President at WSP. Mike chats with us about road user charging including how the discussion has changed over the last decade and the idea of treating roads as a utility by paying for driving by the mile. We also discuss policy considerations including reducing driving and congestion, privacy considerations, and replacing existing use taxes.

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This week we’re joined by Hussein Mahfouz of Transport for Cairo and Adham Kalila of Streetlight Data to talk about their new report created for NUMO, All Possible Commutes: How Micromobility and Realistic Car Travel Times Impact Accessibility Analysis. We learn about measuring car travel more accurately, how micromobility can improve accessibility, and a bit about transportation in the Cairo metro region.

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This week we’re joined by Yale Law professor David Schleicher to talk about his new book, In a Bad State: Responding to State and Local Budget Crises. We chat about how historic fiscal crisis shape similar responses today and how infrastructure funding plays out in the United States.

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This week we’re Han Solo again, but we’ve got some interesting studies on homelessness and managed retreat from flooding. We also share some stories on Arizona’s transportation tax, and research on social inclusion and lack of transportation options. Listen in!

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This week we’re joined by Ben Wilson to talk about his most recent book Urban Jungle: The History and Future of Nature in the City. We chat about how plants took root in the rubble of wars and blank spaces and how cities could be more circular and sustainable.

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This week we’re chatting with Alex Brennan, Executive Director of Futurewise in Washington State. We chat about this most recent legislative session and bills on missing middle housing, climate change, and TOD.

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This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we’re Han Solo but that doesn’t stop us from talking about how to get groceries home without a car, how insurance could save us from climate catastrophe, and whether Houston should ditch its MPO to get better representation.

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This week we chat with Melanie Piana, the Mayor of Ferndale Michigan. We chat about her city’s Woodward Avenue road diet, the city’s bike plans, and how parking is part of too many urban issues.

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This week we’re joined by the Head of Zipcar, Angelo Adams. We talk about how Zipcar gets parking spaces, how they find customers, the benefits of car sharing and how the company’s biggest competitor is car ownership.

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This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we’re joined by Chrissy Mancini Nichols to cover a whole host of topics including urban migration patterns, New York congestion pricing, the impacts of e-commerce warehouses and much more!

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This week we’re chatting with Meghna Khanna of LA Metro and Scarlett DeLeon of the Alliance for Community Transit LA about women who ride transit. We talk about LA Metro’s first of its kind gender action plan and ACT LA’s Metro as Sanctuary report.

This podcast was produced in partnership with Mpact.

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This week we’re joined by Setha Low to talk about her book Why Public Space Matters. We chat about using ethnography to understand space, emotional connections, and transforming the world through public space.

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This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we’re joined by James Llamas of TEI Inc to discuss a whole raft of issues including tiny Japanese Trucks, the goings on of the Texas Transportation Commission, and population impacts of the pandemic.

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May the 4th be with you! This week my good friend Jeff Munowitch of Populus is joining the show to talk about Star Wars! We talk about the top five transportation modes and our top five cities in a galaxy far far away. Which ideas from this science fantasy could be in our future? Listen in and find out.

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This week we’re joined by Mike Salisbury of Denver’s Office of Climate Action, Sustainability & Resiliency to talk about the city’s E-bike rebate program. We talk about funding, E-bikes vs electric cars, and how the rebates are distributed.

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This week we’re Han Solo but we have a lot to talk about! Donut shop murals spark free speech fights, we think more about the concept of time, and work from home’s effects on the public sector. Of course there’s much more and we hope you join us as we share the news.

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This week we’re joined by Hamilton Steimer of the World Resources Institute to talk about their report: Zero-emission Delivery Zones: A New Way to Cut Traffic, Air Pollution and Greenhouse Gases. We chat about electrification of fleets, what cities have the best programs for ZEDZ, and the current moment in urban delivery.

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This week we’re joined by Trevor Latimer to talk about his book Small Isn’t Beautiful: The Case Against Localism. We chat about what localism is and how its geographically defined, as well as why “leave if you don’t like it” is disingenuous.

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This week we’re joined by Andrew Jones, Program director for the Uptown and Downtown Oakland Community Benefits District. We chat about urban place management, how urban spaces are taken care of, and what it takes to keep them vibrant and engaging.

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This week Yonah Freemark of the Urban Institute is BACK for the Annual Prediction Show. This year we chat about our predictions from last year and next year of course, but also regional rail in France, interesting transportation projects happening around the world, and the high cost and management of big transit projects.

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This week on the show we’re Han Solo again but we have a lot of topics to cover! Do Americans have an apartment phobia, should bedrooms have windows, and what’s the newest trends in mapping sidewalks? All these and more on the show this week!

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