Latest Transportation explorers Podcast Episodes
Jacky Grimshaw and Pinpointing Community Needs for Policymakers
TRB's Transportation Explorers Podcast - December 29, 2021 18:37 - 20 minutesJacky Grimshaw, Vice President of Government Affairs at the Center for Neighborhood Technology, discusses how to get engineers and policymakers to understand equity.
Jacky Grimshaw and Pinpointing Community Needs for Policymakers
TRB's Transportation Explorers Podcast - December 29, 2021 18:37 - 20 minutesJacky Grimshaw, Vice President of Government Affairs at the Center for Neighborhood Technology, discusses how to get engineers and policymakers to understand equity.
Anne Strauss-Wieder and the Rapidly Evolving Modern Supply Chain
TRB's Transportation Explorers Podcast - December 10, 2021 15:41 - 22 minutesAnne Strauss-Wieder, TRB’s 2022 Deen recipient, discusses how the freight and port industries are adapting to how they move goods through COVID-19.
Alan Jette and Gary Weissel and Wheelchairs on Airplanes
TRB's Transportation Explorers Podcast - November 05, 2021 13:34 - 24 minutesAlan Jette and Gary Weissel discuss a National Academies/TRB report that finds securing personal motorized wheelchairs on commercial airplanes is challenging but feasible.
Herby Lissade and Emergency Management for Transportation Agencies
TRB's Transportation Explorers Podcast - October 22, 2021 13:45 - 21 minutesHerby Lissade, an active TRB Volunteer, discusses his work dealing with natural disasters in California and Haiti as well as 9/11 in New York City.
Carol Schweiger and Connecting All U.S. Transportation Systems
TRB's Transportation Explorers Podcast - September 17, 2021 14:00 - 23 minutesCarol Schweiger, a transit consultant who has authored numerous TRB reports, discusses how "mobility as a service" can become a successful model.
Shawn Wilson and Dealing with a Wetter, Weirder, and Wilder World
TRB's Transportation Explorers Podcast - September 07, 2021 13:18 - 46 minutesShawn Wilson, Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development, discusses how his state is handling the effects of climate change and building more resilience.
Gloria Jeff and How Transportation Equity is a Pizza
TRB's Transportation Explorers Podcast - August 12, 2021 13:20 - 50 minutesGloria Jeff, the Director of Rethinking I-94 at the Minnesota Department of Transportation, discusses how transportation planners can learn from the past and bake equity into their processes moving forward.
Kara Kockelman and How Gas Prices Are Like Orange Prices
TRB's Transportation Explorers Podcast - July 01, 2021 13:20 - 22 minutesKara Kockelman, a professor of transportation engineering at the University of Texas, Austin, discusses how the focus on and advertisement of gas prices is odd since commodities like milk have much more price fluctuation.
Stewart Mader and How Transit Gets People to Vaccinations
TRB's Transportation Explorers Podcast - June 04, 2021 16:20 - 23 minutesStewart Mader of VaxTransit discusses transit innovations and ways to communicate its benefits.
Robert Sumwalt and Prioritizing Transportation Safety Measures
TRB's Transportation Explorers Podcast - May 20, 2021 16:20 - 22 minutesRobert Sumwalt, Chair of the National Transportation Safety Board, discusses the latest NTSB “Most Wanted List” for safety in all modes of transportation.
Jane Lappin and Technology to Make Cars Safer
TRB's Transportation Explorers Podcast - May 07, 2021 16:30 - 25 minutesJane Lappin, chair of TRB’s Vehicle-Highway Automation Standing Committee, discusses advances in autonomous vehicles.
Amy Benedick and the Distracted Driving Crisis
TRB's Transportation Explorers Podcast - March 31, 2021 16:30 - 23 minutesAmy Benedick, a senior study director at Westat, discusses current legislation about distracted driving, ways it can be enforced, and measures to educate the public.
Norm Augustine and Big Ideas for Interstates
TRB's Transportation Explorers Podcast - March 19, 2021 12:30 - 24 minutesNorm Augustine, chair of TRB’s 2019 Future of the Interstate report, gives an update on how those recommendations could fit into President Biden’s infrastructure plans.
Alicia Trost and COVID Communications
TRB's Transportation Explorers Podcast - March 01, 2021 16:30 - 25 minutesAlicia Trost, Chief Communications Officer at the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART), discusses where San Francisco is in the vaccination effort and how excellent communications is crucial to getting riders back on transit.
Alicia Trost and COVID Communications
TRB's Transportation Explorers Podcast - March 01, 2021 16:30 - 25 minutesAlicia Trost, Chief Communications Officer at the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART), discusses where San Francisco is in the vaccination effort and how excellent communications is crucial to getting riders back on transit.
Chris Hendrickson and Transportation "Net Zero"
TRB's Transportation Explorers Podcast - February 16, 2021 16:30 - 26 minutesChris Hendrickson, NAE member and professor emeritus of civil and environmental engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, discusses how transportation, still dependent on petroleum, is now the single-largest sector for greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. How do we get to "net zero" transportati...
Chris Hendrickson and Transportation "Net Zero"
TRB's Transportation Explorers Podcast - February 16, 2021 16:30 - 26 minutesChris Hendrickson, NAE member and professor emeritus of civil and environmental engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, discusses how transportation, still dependent on petroleum, is now the single-largest sector for greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. How do we get to "net zero" tr...
Carlos Braceras and Utah’s Vibrant Transportation Culture
TRB's Transportation Explorers Podcast - January 26, 2021 16:30 - 29 minutesCarlos Braceras, Executive Director for the Utah Department of Transportation, discusses how he manages people and places in the eighth-most urbanized U.S. state. He also discusses how research saves DOTs money and how young and new voices present an optimistic transportation future. ...
Carlos Braceras and Utah’s Vibrant Transportation Culture
TRB's Transportation Explorers Podcast - January 26, 2021 16:30 - 29 minutesCarlos Braceras, Executive Director for the Utah Department of Transportation, discusses how he manages people and places in the eighth-most urbanized U.S. state. He also discusses how research saves DOTs money and how young and new voices present an optimistic transportation future.
Susan Shaheen and Planning Future Mobility
TRB's Transportation Explorers Podcast - January 19, 2021 16:30 - 22 minutesSusan Shaheen, co-director of the Transportation Sustainability Research Center and professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, discusses her latest study, "Future of Public Transit and Shared Mobility Scenario Planning for COVID 19 Recove...
Katie Turnbull and Texas
TRB's Transportation Explorers Podcast - January 11, 2021 16:30 - 26 minutesKatie Turnbull of the Texas A&M Transportation Institute discusses transportation priorities for the state and also for the rest of the United States as we continue recovering from COVID-19.
Anthony Foxx and Equity
TRB's Transportation Explorers Podcast - January 05, 2021 16:30 - 25 minutesFormer U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx grew up in a Charlotte neighborhood surrounded by freeways that he thought of as "literal walls." In this episode, he explores equity issues in transportation.
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