Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

This is our last week at TRB and we're back on the poster board floor talking with professors and students about their research. This week they cover topics including trip routing with smart phones, stop sign impacts on safety, how rain affects bus travel times, transit agency equity analysis, and much more. To find out more about the presentations or people, links are provided below. Rebecca Kiriazes - Georgia Tech - Research Yousteena Bocktor - McGill University - Research Patrick Loa - University of Toronto - Research Margarita Novales - Universidade Da Coruna Spain - Research Torrey Lyons - UNC Chapel Hill - Research Sultan Ali  - Florida International University Travis Moe/Nicolas Farenchak - University of New Mexico - Research Andrew Schouten - UCLA ITS Josef Szende - NYCDOT

This week Chrissy Mancini Nichols is back on the show and we talk HS2 in England, London's congestion, Los Angeles data and disparities in urban areas in the United States. News LA wins Uber appeal - Los Angeles Times HS2 Moves Forward - Guardian Rose Lanes in Portland - Portland Oregonian Rich cities vs growing cities - New York Times Odds and Ends Moscow subway microbiome - Genetic Engineering and Biotech News Cincinnati solar farms - Smart Cities Dive Bike commute joy - SSTI Story of the Week London's Congestion - Guardian Puppies and Butterflies Seattle Tree Singers - The Stranger

This week and next we’ll be sharing poster presentations from January’s Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting in Washington DC.  Each year professors and students from around the world come to present their transportation research in a great hall of knowledge that some believe is the best part of the conference. Getting to talk with folks about their work is extremely satisfying.  If you want to learn more about any of the following researchers work, check out our show notes in your podcatcher of choice for links to their work. 1. The 85th Percentile - UCLA Luskin School - Brian Taylor and Yu Hong Hwang - Research Link 2. A Proactive Approach to Redefining Child Road Safety - and Vision Zero - University of Colorado at Denver - Wes Marshall - YouTube Presentation 3. Who is Distracted by Distracted Pedestrians? - Rutgers University - Professor Kelcie Ralph 4. Enhancing Cybersecurity in Public Transportation - University of South Florida- Kevin Dennis and Sean Barbeau - Research 5. Results of the Flower

This week we’re joined by Professor David Levinson of the University of Sydney for Part 2 of our TRB discussion. This week we chat about the creation and politics of research journals and his new book, The 30 Minute City.

This week on Mondays, Ian Griffiths of Seamless Bay Area joins the show to talk about connecting the dots on transit agency integration, a national architecture executive order, and a little bit of the details on Amazon's HQ2. News Seamless transit - SF Chronicle Federal architecture order 1 - Architecture Record Part 2 - The New Republic Unaffordable Rental Housing 1 - Reuters Part 2 - Harvard JCHS Odds and Ends Paris streets and cycling - Eltis Suburbs around the world - CityLab 10 Day hospital build - Core77 Story of the Week LA and Tokyo - Archinect Bezos and the Musk - Bloomberg Puppies and Butterflies The coyote and the badger Submit a transit mascot for your agency using #transitmascot

This week we’re joined Professor David Levinson of the University of Sydney. Professor Levinson spoke to us at the Transportation Research Board conference in Washington DC about his work on measuring access, pricing, understanding the growth of cities, and transport as a utility.  This is part 1 of 2. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Find us online at http://theoverheadwire.com  

This week Laura Bliss joins the show  to talk about SB50's demise, the closing of Market Street to cars, and a red wagon in Germany full of cell phones creating digital traffic. Sharon Feigon also lets us in on what's happening at the Shared Use Mobility Summit in Chicago. News The demise of SB50 - Los Angeles Times New transportation bill coming? - Politico Market Street goes free - Streetsblog USA Odds and Ends American houses have more bathrooms - The Atlantic UPS electric vehicles - Engadget Degraded air quality in US Metros - Environment America Story of the Week Creating traffic jams with phones - The Verge Vacancy Taxes - WBUR

This week we’re joined Ben Levine, Executive Director of the Metrolab Network.  We chat with Ben about the partnerships that Metrolab forges between cities and academic institutions, data collection and usage, as well as the Civic Innovation Challenge. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Find us online at http://theoverheadwire.com Also check out http://usa.streetsblog.org  

This week Laramie Bowron joins the show to talk about Nashville, the Menino Mayors Survey, Andy Byford and more! Swiftly's State of Public Transit Report - Swiftly News Andy Byford resigns - New York Times Paris warehouses get urban makeover - Wired Cities annexing to pump up census #s - New York Times Odds and Ends Household travel in EU - Eltis Oregon DOT launches new office - Smart Cities Dive China bans single use plastics - Core 77 Story of the Week Nashville's transit plans derailed - TransitCenter US Mayors know of safety issues, not solutions - Fast Company

This week we are chatting with Alice Bravo and Carlos Cruz-Casas, Director and Assistant Director respectively of Miami Dade County’s Department of Transportation and Public Works.  We chat about better buses, managing the right of way, privacy and data, and their contactless fare payment system. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Visit us on the web at http://theoverheadwire.com    

It's a Solo show with Greedo this week. We're back from the winter break with some news to share!  Also if you want to get on the list for the "Bus Only" soccer scarf, email me at theoverheadwire@gmail.com News Governor says no more freeways in Texas - D Magazine Mass timber in the news - Arch Daily | Vox London throat - BBC Odds and Ends Farewell to Guardian Cities - Guardian Barcelona's zero emissions zone - Guardian Story of the Week SB50 is Back - Los Angeles Times America's long distance transportation problems - Brookings| Texas Monthly US land use mapped - Visual Capitalist Puppies and Butterflies Transit Supply

This week Hugh Martin of Lacuna joins the podcast to talk about his passion for open source ways to operate city streets in the future. As more and more transportation operators look for space on city streets and perhaps in the air, government needs a way to distribute access fairly based on public priorities and policy. Hugh talks about why he’s so passionate about this future for cities and gives us some food for thought on the current state of the relationship between cities and transportation companies.

This week we’re joined by Laura Wiens of Pittsburgh for Public Transit to talk about their report on AVs called “Wait, Who’s Driving This Thing”  Laura chats about vehicle data, the future of bus drivers, the frameworks we need for a positive implementation and blows our mind by comparing the movement for micro-mobility and transport choice to the charter school movement.  Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire or go to http://theoverheadwire.com And if you want to support the show you can do so on Patreon.

This week we're joined by Grace Crunican, former GM at BART. Grace chats about her long and distinguished career as a leader in transportation and what it takes to lead, to mentor, and gives lessons for the next generation of advocates and public officials.

This is one of my favorite episodes ever.  I hope folks enjoy this flashback for the holidays. We chat with Alisa Valderrama and Rob Moore of NRDC all about water.

This week we’re joined by Ben Kabak of Second Avenue Sagas.  We take a look at New York transit issues including who controls the MTA, why subway rides are getting faster, why he started writing about transit in the city, and the L train un-shutdown.  We also chat about the 14th Street busway, bad airport transit, and the Mayor’s fascination with ferries. 

This week Chrissy Mancini Nichols joins the show to talk about Miami's Velocia app, Jakarta's transit expansion, the urban media landscape and much more! News Bloomberg Media purchases CityLab - Mother Jones Restaurants on the "streets" of NYC better reviews - WaPo Indonesia's $40B Metro expansion - South China Morning Post Odds and Ends Headphones to alert pedestrians - Fast Company Wolfhagen Germany goes 100% renewable - The Conversation Amazon's Ring privacy problem - Gizmodo Story of the Week Velocia app rewards active transportation - Fast Company Indonesia's $40B Metro expansion - South China Morning Post  

This week we're back at the 2019 Rail~Volution conference in Vancouver BC. We chat with GB Arrington and Steve Dotterer about the early days of Rail~Volution and what the conference has meant to transportation in the United States over the last 25 years. They also tell stories about conferences past from when Al Gore came to Portland to having to move the conference date due to 9/11. Join us for a look at the past and the future. 

Tracy McMillan of Nelson Nygaard returns to chat about climate change, gas price sensitivity, and free transit. News Gas price sensitivity - Haas Energy Institute Blog Free transit in Kansas City - Jalopnik The future is transparent wood - Horizon Magazine World News Land sold for Egypt's new capital - Reuters Largest 3D printed building in Dubai - Construction Dive Story of the Week Climate change converts - Deseret News Climate plan for Dallas transportation - Dallas Morning News  

This week we're joined by Giacomo Lozzi of Polis to talk about a report he co-wrote about zero emissions sustainable government procurement. Giacomo talks about how cities such as Rotterdam, Oslo, and Copenhagen are trying to measure and manage the emissions they create through the procurement of goods and services.