• Episode 507: Thinking Bigger About Regional Economic Development
    Nov 7 2024

    This week on Talking Headways we’re joined by Julie Huls, CEO of Waymaker Group. We chat about economic development strategies for mid-sized cities, the impacts of the pandemic on regional thinking, and what a future of Mega Regions means for cities trying to attract talent.

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    40 mins
  • Episode 506: Transit Wins and Co-Benefits from Climate Work
    Oct 31 2024

    This week on Talking Headways we’re listening in on a 1 to 1 conversation between Julie Eaton Ernst, Climate Resilience Practice Leader at HNTB, and Dr. Cris Liban, Chief Sustainability Officer at LA Metro. They chat about the co-benefits of transportation, the evolution of the definition of transportation, and making change in small steps.

    This podcast was produced in partnership with Mpact. http://mpactmobility.org

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    46 mins
  • Monday's Flashback: More Than Just a Box
    Oct 29 2024

    We’re going back in time to Episode 144 to chat with Matthew Heins about his book The Globalization of American Infrastructure: The Shipping Container and Freight Transportation. We’ve done a lot of fun shows and I had forgotten about this one until I was looking back trying to think of a good oldie to share with you all.

    Matthew talks about how the American highway and rail systems created a global standard for shipping containers, the local actors shaping globalization, containerization’s effects on labor and relevance to an automated trucking future, and the massive intermodal terminals in cities like Chicago.

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    33 mins
  • Episode 505: Urgency and Vision Zero
    Oct 24 2024

    This week we’re joined by Leah Shahum, Executive Director of the Vision Zero Network. We chat about why it’s so hard to make change, the implicit biases around designing for automobiles and the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims coming up on November 17th.

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    49 mins
  • Episode 504: Simpler Payment Systems for Agencies and Riders
    Oct 17 2024

    This week we’re joined by Gillian Gillett of CalITP and Dan Baker, of the Connecticut Department of Transportation to discuss how agencies can create simpler payment and travel experiences for transit riders. We chat about the Connecticut Integrated Mobility Project, building payment system capacity and merchant services for smaller transit agencies, and the need for digital customer first thinking in a paper based industry.

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    1 hr and 1 min
  • Episode 160: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - The Long and Winding Road
    Oct 15 2024

    This week on Mondays Wes Marshall is back! We chat about his trip to Bogota Columbia, the connections between biological structure and the built environment, and of course we discuss the news from last week including climate migration, high speed rail, roundabouts, and healthy urbanism.

    Check out below for the show notes including links to the items we chatted about and a full AI generated unedited transcript of this show. And don't forget to check this out on YouTube.

    Show Notes

    Ants that count - NPR

    Austin to Mexico HSR? MySA

    Japan's 60 years of HSR - The Guardian

    To Mexico Under Wires - The Overhead Wire

    Moving to Disaster Prone Areas - New York Times

    Nowhere is safe, not even climate havens - The Guardian

    Galveston at the edge of the seawall - Washington Post

    A worse case scenario - Washington Post

    Rebuilding roads post disaster - Wired Magazine

    The Sprawl - The Overhead Wire

    The Modular Roundabout - Equipment World

    Rethinking La Rambla - El Pais

    Obvious Solutions v. Actual Ones - The Overhead Wire

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    1 hr and 35 mins
  • Episode 503: The Architecture of Urbanity
    Oct 10 2024

    This week on Talking Headways, we're joined by architect Vishaan Chakrabarti to talk about his book The Architecture of Urbanity: Designing for Nature, Culture, and Joy. We discuss the goldilocks density, defining urbanity, and the ennui of young architects.

    How to Make Room for 1M New Yorkers - NYT

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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Mondays Flashback: Access as a Metric
    Oct 8 2024

    We’re flashing back to Talking Headways episode 246 from five years ago and chat with Andrew Owen of the Accessibility Observatory about access as a metric! Wes Marshall will be back next week but in the meantime we've got you covered with some great information.

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    37 mins