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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This week we’re joined by David Hensher, Director of the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies at the University of Sydney. David chats about how to fix Mobility as a Service and proposes a new way to reduce travel and emissions called  Mobility as a Feature.

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This week we’re joined by Oregon Metro Council President Lynn Peterson to talk about her book Roadways for People: Rethinking Transportation Planning and Engineering. We chat about better project scoping, capacity building, engineers going to actually walk and bike their project areas, and highway expansion in cities.

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This week on the show we talk about a whole lot of different topics from bus stop requests, bus electrification, and health care streets.

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This week on the podcast we are back at the Rail~Volution conference in Miami last fall.  We chat with Miami Dade County Commissioner Eileen Higgins about the South Dade Busway, the importance of FTA ratings in getting projects built, and why she thinks it’s important as an elected official to ride transit.

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This week we’re joined by Dr. Jennifer Kent, Senior Research Fellow in Urbanism at the University of Sydney, to talk about her work on family transportation, the messiness of travel for parents, and loneliness and the built environment. She also shares what parents might need to travel more sustainably.

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This week on Mondays we’re again Han Solo, but don’t let that stop you from listening in to all the news from the last couple of weeks! We chat about the 15 Minute City conspiracy, why the American Association of Railroads is against electrification, and Wales’ climate action on roads.

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This week we’re joined by Diane Jones Allen, Program Director for Landscape Architecture at the University of Texas at Arlington. We chat about her work on food deserts and transportation access and the American Society of Landscape Architects Climate Action Plan.

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This week we’re going to the Rail~Volution (Now MPact) Conference in Miami. Daniel Gibson of Regional Vice President of Miami Dade Allegany Franciscan Ministries moderates a panel featuring LA Metro CEO Stephanie Wiggins, SEPTA CEO Leslie Richards, and Diana Stanley, CEO of homeless services provider The Lord’s Place to talk about homelessness and public transportation. They chat about the need for more federal agency coordination between transportation, health, and human services as well as how transit agencies are tackling the issues vulnerable populations face.

This episode was produced in partnership with MPact.

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This week we’re Han Solo but we do talk about a LOT of news from around the country! We chat about Denver’s successful e-bike pilot, biodiversity in cities, transit project costs report, Pittsburgh rethinks its budget based on climate change, and much much more!

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This week we’re joined by Greg Shill, Professor of Law at the University of Iowa, and Jonathan Levine, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Michigan to talk about their paper, First Principals in Transportation Law and Policy. We talk about how to rethink transportation metrics towards accessibility, how the law has embedded mobility in transportation, and why we really travel.

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This week we’re joined by Colin Parent, Executive Director of Circulate San Diego, to talk about their new report Fast Bus! How San Diego Can Make Progress by Speeding Up the Bus. We chat about some of the big things happening in San Diego and how the region can promote and support buses.

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Chrissy Mancini Nichols joins the show this week to talk bike lanes, low traffic neighborhoods, gas stoves, and transportation engineering in the United States. It gets even more fun as Jeff’s power goes out and we have to do the last 10 minutes over the phone! Join us for episode 125 of Mondays at The Overhead Wire.

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This week we’re joined by Dr. Dorina Pojani, Associate Professor of Urban Planning at the University of Queensland to talk about her book Planning for Sustainable Transport in Southeast Asia: Policy Transfer, Diffusion, and Mobility. We chat about how four different Southeast Asian cities are taking transportation ideas from other places and trying to deal with congestion and mobility.

You can find the book from Springer here.

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This week we’re joined by Dr. Nadia Anderson, former Director of Federal Affairs at INRIX. Dr. Anderson joins us to talk about what lobbyists actually do, the one year anniversary of IIJA, and how it leads to Justice 40 and equity action.

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This week we’re joined by Ron Milam of Fehr and Peers to talk about some of his thoughts on this year’s Transportation Research Board Conference. We also talk about VMT and highway expansions, commute times and distances in China, and why certain sounds from your neighbors might put you on edge.

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This week we’re joined by Michiel Huijsman, Managing Director of Soundtrackcity in the Netherlands. We chat about how to think about the positive aspect of urban soundscapes, designing how a place sounds, and how thinking was changed by the pandemic.

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This week we’re joined by Johanna Hoffman to talk about her book Speculative Futures: Design Approaches to Navigate Change, Foster Resilience, and Co-Create the Cities We Need. We chat about thinking longer term about planning problems, people’s emotional reactions to the future, and ways to imagine a different way of interacting in cities.

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This week we’re joined by Jacob Graham, a Program Manager for MoGo Bike Share in Detroit. Jacob chats with us about how the system works in Detroit, how bike share riders and bus riders coincide, the benefits of E-Bikes, and coordination with other organizations.

This podcast was produced in partnership with MPact (fmrly Railvolution)

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This week we’re Han Solo but we’ve got a lot to share from ideas we have for next year’s podcasts as well as a lot of really interesting news items you probably won’t hear about anywhere else. Check out the show notes below for more and have a great finish to 2022!

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This week we’re joined by Sarah Kaufman of the NYU Rudin Center for Transportation. Sarah joined us in Miami at the RailVolution conference to talk about autonomous vehicle policy, acceptable safety levels, what happens to the NYC Taxis and the lessons from Superstorm Sandy for transportation infrastructure.

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This week we’re joined by Jarred Johnson, Executive Director of TransitMatters in Boston. Jarred talks about making the case for the MBTA, the Orange Line shutdown, regional rail and electrification, overhead wires versus batteries, and fare policy.

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This week we’re talking about the big stories of the last few weeks! Why LED lights suddenly turn purple, what walking does to our brains, and the strange city of Lusail in Qatar.

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This week we’re joined once again by Stephanie Gidigbi Jenkins and Helen Chin to talk about the one year anniversary of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. They chat about what they liked, the issue with capacity for applying for and implementing grants, transformative justice, and what states are actually doing well.

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This week we sit down with US Congressman Earl Blumenauer of Oregon’s 3rd District at the Rail~Volution conference in Miami. We chat about the one year anniversary of the infrastructure bill, where we’re at with vision zero, the coming Farm Bill discussion, and the important connections between housing, transportation, and health.

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