Latest Intelligent transport Podcast Episodes
Rolling Resistance and Vehicle Efficiency
Transportation Radio - September 21, 2021 12:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsMark Hoffman, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Auburn University, and his graduate research assistant Karl Bohnenberger have been studying one of the lesser known contributors to poor fuel economy: rolling resistance. Rolling resistance is a measure of the effort required to k...
Deployment of MaaS/MOD Strategies
Transportation Radio - August 30, 2021 14:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThis month, Bernie Wagenblast talks with Carol Schweiger, president at Schweiger Consulting LLC and co-chair of the TRB Committee on Innovative Public Transportation Services and Technologies. Carol has more than 40 years of experience in transportation consulting, nationally and internationally...
Monarch Butterfly Conservation with Arizona DOT's Kris Gade
Transportation Radio - August 14, 2021 15:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsOnce ubiquitous in North America, the monarch’s striking orange and black wings are likely the first image that comes to mind when picturing a butterfly. The monarch is famed not only for its beauty, but also for its role in a healthy ecosystem – the pollinators are a critical support to some un...
Moving a Public Agency into the Future of Active Transportation
Transportation Radio - August 03, 2021 14:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsOn this episode of the ITE Talks Transportation podcast, the director of the California Department of Transportation, Toks Omishakin, discusses how the agency dealt with the challenges of the pandemic as well as the strategies it is employing to create safer, more livable, and more equitable com...
Roadside Vegetation & The Ray
Transportation Radio - July 14, 2021 20:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn this month’s episode of AASHTO’s ETAP Podcast, host Bernie Wagenblast sits down with Matthew Quirey, a Landscape Design & Research Fellow at The Ray. For his thesis, Matthew partnered with The Ray to produce new classifications of the most beneficial and well rounded roadside vegetation syste...
A Safer, More Equitable Post-COVID Future for Transportation – Eulois Cleckley, Denver DOT Executive Director and NACTO President
Transportation Radio - June 24, 2021 21:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsEulois Cleckley, the outgoing Executive Director of the Denver Department of Transportation & Infrastructure, discusses how he helped launch a new transportation and infrastructure department in a large urban city. Cleckley, who serves as president of both the National Association of City Transp...
Connecticut DOT Climate Initiative Program and Partnership with Department of Environmental Protection
Transportation Radio - June 09, 2021 20:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThis month's AASHTO ETAP Podcast will focus on how state agency partnerships are helping Connecticut both achieve its state climate goals and implement the Transportation and Climate Initiative Program, or TCI-P. State DOTs are critical stakeholders in deciding how to re-invest revenue generated...
Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices: Looking Back, Looking Forward with Jeff Lindley, P.E., ITE Chief Technical Officer
Transportation Radio - May 28, 2021 16:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThe Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has been around for nearly 100 years, and is the federal standard for regulation of all things signs, markings, and signals in the U.S. transportation system. But how has the Manual changed throu...
Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices: Looking Back, Looking Forward with Jeff Lindley, PE, ITE Chief Technical Officer
Transportation Radio - May 28, 2021 16:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThe Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has been around for nearly 100 years, and is the federal standard for regulation of all things signs, markings, and signals in the US transportation system. But how has the manual changed through...
Transportation Equity and Minnesota's Rethinking I-94 Project
Transportation Radio - May 07, 2021 17:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThis episode of the AASHTO ETAP podcast will focus on transportation equity and environmental justice. Transportation systems are critical to people’s ability to reach jobs, educational opportunities, health care, and a number of other goods and services. However, underserved and marginalized co...
2020 Motor Vehicle Fatalities Estimates and COVID-19 Safety with Lorraine Martin, National Safety Council President and CEO
Transportation Radio - April 29, 2021 20:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsLorraine Martin, President and CEO of the National Safety Council, discusses the NSC 2020 Motor Vehicle Fatalities preliminary data, which estimate that as many as 42,060 people died in motor vehicle crashes in 2020. That marks an 8 percent increase over 2019 in a year where people drove signifi...
AASHTO ETAP Podcast: Electric Vehicle Infrastructure and Implementation with Shoshana Lew
Transportation Radio - April 08, 2021 12:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsState departments of transportation will play a critical role in rolling out electric vehicle infrastructure. Shoshana Lew, the Executive Director of Colorado DOT, is leading the march towards a greener future for her state’s drivers and riders. This month’s podcast discusses how Colorado is ram...
Ryan Russo, OakDOT Director – Lessons Learned from the Slow Streets Program
Transportation Radio - March 24, 2021 21:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsRyan Russo, Director of Transportation at the Oakland, California Department of Transportation, is the guest on the ITE Talks Transportation podcast and discusses the city’s Slow Streets program and the challenges of meeting the community’s transportation needs during COVID-19. He also highlight...
Women In Transportation With Paula Hammond
Transportation Radio - March 04, 2021 21:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn this episode of the AASHTO ETAP Podcast, Paula Hammond – market leader-multimodal at consulting firm WSP USA and a former secretary of the Washington State Department of Transportation – talks about the career challenges and opportunities for women in the transportation industry.
INRIX President and CEO Bryan Mistele Talks Transforming Transportation with Big Data
Transportation Radio - February 24, 2021 12:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsOn the February edition of the ITE Talks Transportation podcast, Bryan Mistele, President and CEO of INRIX, talks about the impact of big data and data analytics on the transportation sector, including how his company utilizes real-time information to improve location-based insights for companie...
DC DOT Advancing Transportation Equity
Transportation Radio - February 05, 2021 13:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsJeff Bennett — head of the Transit Delivery Division of the District of Columbia Department of Transportation and president of the DC Chapter of the Conference of Minority Transportation Officials — is interviewed by host Bernie Wagenblast about how Washington, DC is advancing transportation equ...
AASHTO's Jim Tymon on Transportation and COVID-19, Working with a New Administration, and More
Transportation Radio - January 26, 2021 14:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsJim Tymon, Executive Director of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), discusses the impacts of COVID-19 on the transportation industry over the past year and how state departments of transportation are faring. He also talks about the new US presidentia...
Environmental Topics at the Virtual TRB Annual Meeting
Transportation Radio - January 07, 2021 21:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThe January AASHTO ETAP Podcast focuses on the Transportation Research Board’s 2021 Annual Meeting, taking place throughout the month of January. Like most organizations, TRB has shifted to a virtual meeting due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The meeting will celebrate TRB’s centennial with t...
Complete Streets in a Pandemic and Beyond with Jennifer Toole, Toole Design
Transportation Radio - November 24, 2020 21:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsJennifer Toole, founder and president of Toole Design, discusses the implications of COVID-19 for complete streets in communities and whether they will last beyond the pandemic. She also talks about starting a business from scratch, and how she and her staff work to promote a spirit of diversity...
AASHTO's ETAP Podcast: Georgia DOT's Innovative Planning and Environmental Linkage (PEL) Study
Transportation Radio - November 24, 2020 14:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn this episode, host Bernie Wagenblast interviews Jannine Miller and Charles Robinson of the Georgia Department of Transportation about the I-85 Corridor Study, an innovative effort that is using a new approach – Planning and Environmental Linkage, or PEL. EPISODE NOTES Planning and Environm...
Professional Development in a Virtual World with Shelley Row - Founder, Blue Fjord Leaders
Transportation Radio - October 27, 2020 14:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsShelley Row, P.E., CSP, CEO and founder, Blue Fjord Leaders, discusses effective professional development within this new virtual landscape brought on by COVID-19. Hear her advice for those wanting to develop their leadership traits and perspective on how well transportation professionals have a...
Caltrans' Director Toks Omishakin Talks Active Transportation
Transportation Radio - October 06, 2020 11:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsCalifornia DOT Director Toks Omishakin about the important role active transportation — primarily walking and cycling — plays in a healthy transportation system during the AASHTO ETAP Podcast. Omishakin, chairs AASHTO’s Council on Active Transportation, and is a considered a national leader in p...
Promoting Quality of Life Through Rural and Tribal Transit – National RTAP Program
Transportation Radio - September 28, 2020 13:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsRobin Phillips, Executive Director of the National Rural Transit Assistance Program (RTAP), discusses the challenges of delivering safe and effective public transportation in rural and tribal areas, and highlights some of the challenges faced by these communities, especially in light of the COVI...
Futurist Garry Golden – How COVID-19 is Shaping the Future of the Transportation Industry
Transportation Radio - September 11, 2020 12:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsFuturist Garry Golden shares how he sees the global COVID-19 pandemic shaping future outcomes for the transportation industry as a whole and for professionals. Garry was a Plenary Speaker at the 2020 ITE Annual Meeting and Exhibition and the session was sponsored by the ITE Consultants Council.
Futurist Garry Golden – How COVID-19 is Shaping the Future of the Transportation Industry
Transportation Radio - September 11, 2020 12:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsFuturist Garry Golden shares how he sees the global COVID-19 pandemic shaping future outcomes for the transportation industry as a whole and for professionals. Garry was a Plenary Speaker at the 2020 ITE Annual Meeting and Exhibition and the session was sponsored by the ITE Consultants Council.
Hawaii DOT’s Focus on Organizational Resiliency
Transportation Radio - September 08, 2020 20:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsHawaii is no stranger to natural disasters — over the course of several months between 2018-2019, the state faced flooding, landslides and volcanic eruptions. In this episode of the AASHTO ETAP Podcast, Ed Sniffen, Hawaii DOT deputy director for Highways, explains how HDOT plans and prepares to ...
Arizona DOT's Innovative Approach to Virtual Public Involvement
Transportation Radio - August 16, 2020 19:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsOne of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the temporary end to the traditional public meeting. Most of these gatherings have become virtual. On AASHTO's ETAP Podcast, Arizona DOT’s Steve Olmsted, senior program manager, discusses ways in which his agency has approached the challenge o...
Self-Driving Technology and Safety with David Harkey
Transportation Radio - August 16, 2020 18:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsDavid Harkey, president of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and the Highway Loss Data Institute, joins the ITE Talks Transportation podcast to discuss connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) and two new studies conducted by the traffic safety research organizations. The first study cit...
The Impact of Innovation on MaaS/MOD with Vincent Valdes
Transportation Radio - June 23, 2020 17:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsVincent Valdes joins the ITE Talks Transportation podcast to talk about the role of mobility as a service (MaaS) and mobility on demand (MOD) in public transit and how innovation can improve travel for users and transportation networks as a whole. The podcast was recorded while Vince was at the ...
A Minnesota Perspective on Environmental Sustainability
Transportation Radio - June 03, 2020 17:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsMinnesota DOT Commissioner Margaret Anderson Kelliher talks about her state’s perspectives on environmental sustainability on the AASHTO ETAP Podcast. Commissioner Anderson Kelliher, who serves as chairperson of AASHTO’s Committee on Environment and Sustainability, says that her state looks for ...
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