The Mpact Podcast (Formerly Railvolution)

This month on the Mpact podcast we're going back to Miami for the closing conference plenary featuring the amazing Tamika Butler. Tamika discusses community centered transit, equity, and thinking about who we're actually planning for. Find out more about Mpact at http://mpactmobility.org  

This month on the Rail~Volution podcast we're going to the Monday morning plenary at this year's conference in Miami.  We have a panel on Building Resilience in Miami and Across the Country hosted by NRDC Chief Climate Strategist Shelley Poticha will feature Miami Chief Heat Officer Jane Gilbert, Former Director, Environment & Sustainability Department, City of Miami Beach Elizabeth Wheaton, and t...

This month on the Railvolution podcast we're joined by Jacob Graham, a Program Manager for MoGo Bike Share in Detroit. Jacob chats with us about how the system works in Detroit, how bike share riders and bus riders coincide, the benefits of E-Bikes, and coordination with other organizations. For more information about Rail~Volution visit the conference page !

This month on The Rail~volution Podcast Tien-Tien Chan of Nelson Nygaard and Jessica Roberts of Alta Planning and Design join the show to talk about Transportation Demand Management or TDM. Tien-Tien and Jessica discuss how TDM acts as the soft side of transportation and the flipside of infrastructure and the different types of programs are employed. Find out more about the podcast and the confere...

This month on the Rail~Volution podcast, Broward MPO Executive Director Greg Stuart joins the show to talk about the history of Broward County, it's connections to the rest of South Florida, the historic MAPS transportation plan, and how they are dealing with potential sea level rise and impacts of the pandemic.

Today on the podcast we're going back in time to a discussion we had with Jim Murley, Chief Resilience Officer for Miami Dade County, about resiliency in south florida. Jim talks about climate change, sea level rise, and how South East Florida is responding with policy and planning. The podcast was first released in June 2020. The Rail~Volution conference, originally scheduled for fall 2020, was r...

This month on the RailVolution podcast Kim Cella of Citizens for Modern Transit and Sheila Holm of AARP discuss how they are transforming transit stops in St. Louis. We chat about how they involve the community, engage transit operators, and bring life to grey spaces.   For more more information visit http://railvolution.org  

This month on the Railvolution podcast… we're listening in on a 1 to 1 conversation between City of Phoenix planner Elias Valencia, and community champion Victor Vidales. Elias and Victor talk about the process of creating the South Central TOD Community Plan and what it takes to create strategies that empower neighborhoods and reduce displacement. For more information, visit http://railvolution.o...

This month on the RailVolution podcast we're having a 1 to 1 conversation between Developer Johnny Opara of JO Companies and Lea Hargett, Principal of JOG Associates. They talk about LISC's Capacity Building programs that support developers of color, why Johnny got into development, and some of the barriers people of color face in the market which includes the many different types of capital.

This month on the Rail~Volution podcast we're joined by Harriet Tregoning, Director at NUMO, and Yonah Freemark, a senior research associate at the Urban Institute to talk about their report , Charting Out a Next-Generation, Place-Based Federal Transportation Policy. We talk what needs to change about federal policy and the entities that need to pursue it.

This month on the railvolution podcast we're featuring a 1 to 1 conversation between Aidil Ortiz, Principal at Aidilisms and MaryKate Morookian, a transit planner at Kimley Horn. Aidil and MaryKate discuss the Durham Transit Plan and how they approached public engagement while centering the community in the process.

This month on the Rail~volution podcast we're joined by Adie Tomer from Brookings to talk about how transit oriented development and active transportation play into climate strategies over the long term. We talk about mitigation versus adaptation strategies and what solutions work best for each.

This month on the Railvolution podcast, we are featuring a one to one conversation between Carlos Cruz-Casas, Assistant Director, Department of Transportation and Public Works for Miami Dade County, and Grace Perdomo, Executive Director of Transit Alliance. Grace and Carlos chat about the Better Bus Project, an advocacy-led community driven redesign of the Miami-Dade bus network.

This month on the Rail~Volution podcast, we're back at this fall's virtual conference.  Former BART GM Grace Crunican moderates a panel discussing the role of board members in transit agencies with Boston's Monica Tibbits-Nutt and Houston's Christof Spieler.

This month on the Rail~Volution podcast, we're at the 2021 Virtual Railvolution conference.  Adelee Le Grand, CEO of the Hillsborough Area Regional Transit System in Tampa moderates a panel featuring Debra Johnson, GM and CEO of RTD in Denver and Peter Rogoff, CEO of Sound Transit in Seattle.

This month on the Rail~Volution podcast, we're joined by staff from MARTA in Atlanta for a 1 on 1 conversation. Collie Greenwood, Deputy General Manager, and Jacob Vallo, Senior Director of TOD, Real Estate, and Art in Transit … talk with each other about the agency's bus network redesign and their TOD program.

This month on the Railvolution podcast we're joined by Duncan Hwong, Interim Co-Director of the Asian Pacific Network of Oregon and Gauri Rajbaidya, architect and senior associate at SERA. They chat with us about community driven development in Portland's Jade District and how it's connected to the rest of the region.

This week on the RailVolution Podcast we're joined by the new Rail~volution CEO Tamar Shapiro.  We chat about her previous work at in cities and transportation, how to better measure transportation success and the transportation parades at German soccer stadiums.

This month on The Railvolution Podcast we're featuring a 1 to 1 conversation between Dan Baer, Senior Vice President at WSP USA and Kevin Corbett, President and CEO of New Jersey Transit.  Dan and Kevin talk about New Jersey transit's response to the pandemic, transit oriented development,  bus electrification and much much more.

On this month's episode of the Rail~Volution podcast, we're chatting with Chris Puchalsky and Andrew Simpson of the Philadelphia Office of Transportation, Infrastructure, and Sustainability.  We talk about the The Philadelphia Transit Plan, regional rail, and agency coordination.

On this month's episode of the Railvolution podcast we're joined by Robert del Rosario, Director of Service Development for AC Transit in Oakland and the East Bay California.  Robert talks about agency coordination during the pandemic, what's needed to get riders coming back, and what sustainable revenue might look like going forward.

This month on the Rail~Volution podcast we're joined by Sharon Roerty, Senior Program Officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Maki Kawaguchi, a Director at Gehl to talk about the Inclusive Healthy Places Framework .  Sharon and Maki talk about the importance of creating spaces that bring dignity to all users, the importance of evaluating existing spaces, and creating a data driven and p...

This month on the Railvolution Podcast I'm joined by Dan Nissenbaum, CEO of the Low Income Investment Fund.  We chat with Dan about Liif's many different projects including early childhood education and housing,  and how to connect transportation to community development.

On this episode of the Rail~Volution podcast, we're talking again about bus electrification.  Erica Eggleton of the University of Washington joins us to chat about her work on Route Dynamics, an open source program that estimates the energy demand for electric bus routes run by King County Metro.

This week, we're joined by Camron Gorguinpour, Director of Mobility Solutions for ENGIE Impact . We talk about Shenzhen's 16,000 electric buses and what world cities can learn positive and negative from their implementation. Gorguinpour also discusses infrastructure needs for electric bus operations at a fleet level, the impact of street maintenance, and procurement and implementation issues.