The Mpact Podcast (Formerly Railvolution)

This month we're joined by Vanan Murugesan , Director of Design and Innovation at Pillsbury United Communities. He talks about how human centered design has impacted how he thinks about community building and building a community centered grocery store.

This month on the Rail~Volution podcast we're joined by Laura Loe of Share the Cities. Laura talks about being a bus driver and housing activist and how to talk to parents about opposition to housing.

This roundtable at the Tuesday morning plenary at the Rail~Volution Conference in Pittsburgh this October featured speakers from Ford, Lyft, The City of Minneapolis and Jarrett Walker + Associates. Emcee: Robin Hutcheson, AICP, Director of Public Works, City of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, MN Jarrett Walker, Principal Consultant, Jarrett Walker + Associates; blogger on HumanTransit.org , Portland, OR...

At the Rail~Volution conference this year, Jarrett Walker gave the Tuesday morning keynote. This is part one of a two part series. Part 2, Episode 11, is the round table that took place after Jarrett's keynote speech.

This month on the Rail~Volution podcast, Dr. Manuel Pastor joins us to talk about a whole host of subjects from place based community organizing to the environmental justice screen method and rent control. He brings a new perspective to demographic change in LA and has some thoughts on turning academic work into policy.

This month we're joined by Kari Watkins, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech and co-founder and "Chief Motivator" of OneBusAway, an open source platform for real time transit info. Kari talks about her research into the role of technology in the evolving transit experience, how Atlanta has changed in the 7 years she's lived there and the difference between te...

This month on the Rail~Volution podcast we're joined by Chloe Spano of Cityway to talk about how cities can better use data to support mobility solutions.  We chat about Paris' limits on single occupancy vehicles using real time information to get ready for the Olympics and what is needed to get ready for a future where mobility is a service.  

This month on the Railvolution Podcast, former President and CEO of the Low Income Investment Fund (Liif) Nancy Andrews joins us.  Nancy and I chat about community development, poverty reduction strategies, and the Bay Area Transit Oriented Housing Fund.

This month on the Rail~Volution podcast, Patrick Siegman joins us to chat on the topic of parking. We chat about the etymology of the word parking, the legend that is Donald Shoup, and why the topic of parking gets so personal.

This month on the Rail~Volution Podcast, Odetta MacLeish White of the Transformation Alliance joins us to talk about transportation and planning issues in the Atlanta region. Odetta talks about displacement pressures on the Atlanta Beltline, the history of segregation in planning, and the big changes coming to advocacy and equity in the Atlanta region.

This week we're joined by LA Metro CEO Phil Washington to talk about the many interesting things the agency is working on. He discusses building affordable housing near transit, testing new ideas like microtransit, and the origins of Metro's Office of Extraordinary Innovation.

This week we're joined by Mariia Zimmerman of MZ Strategies to discuss the evolution of livable communities at the federal level as well as the past and future of TOD. 

Today on The Rail~Volution podcast, we're talking with Former Director of the Central Corridor Funders Collaborative Jonathan Sage Martinson. We'll chat about advocacy and work that the collaborative did along the Green Line Light Rail between Minneapolis and St. Paul.