This series gives voice to the many volunteers of the Transportation Research Board and other leading transportation experts. Co-hosts Elaine Ferrell and Paul Mackie explore the latest and most critical research and innovations in transportation. The show is a production of TRB and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
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Jacky Grimshaw, Vice President of Government Affairs at the Center for Neighborhood Technology, discusses how to get engineers and policymakers to understand equity.Από τον Transpotation Research Board
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Anne Strauss-Wieder, TRB’s 2022 Deen recipient, discusses how the freight and port industries are adapting to how they move goods through COVID-19.Από τον Transpotation Research Board
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Alan Jette and Gary Weissel discuss a National Academies/TRB report that finds securing personal motorized wheelchairs on commercial airplanes is challenging but feasible.Από τον Transpotation Research Board
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Herby 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.Από τον Transpotation Research Board
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Carol Schweiger, a transit consultant who has authored numerous TRB reports, discusses how "mobility as a service" can become a successful model.Από τον Transpotation Research Board
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Shawn 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.Από τον Transpotation Research Board
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Gloria 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.Από τον Transpotation Research Board
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Kara 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.Από τον Transpotation Research Board
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Stewart Mader of VaxTransit discusses transit innovations and ways to communicate its benefits.Από τον Transpotation Research Board
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Robert Sumwalt, Chair of the National Transportation Safety Board, discusses the latest NTSB “Most Wanted List” for safety in all modes of transportation.Από τον Transpotation Research Board
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Jane Lappin, chair of TRB’s Vehicle-Highway Automation Standing Committee, discusses advances in autonomous vehicles.Από τον Transpotation Research Board
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Amy Benedick, a senior study director at Westat, discusses current legislation about distracted driving, ways it can be enforced, and measures to educate the public.Από τον Transpotation Research Board
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Norm 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.Από τον Transpotation Research Board
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Alicia 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.Από τον Transpotation Research Board
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Chris 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" transportation emissions by 2050?…
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Carlos 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.Από τον Transpotation Research Board
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Susan 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 Recovery". She also discusses research needed both within the transpo…
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Katie 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.Από τον Transpotation Research Board
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Former 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.Από τον Transpotation Research Board
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