Episodios

  • Episode 543: Measuring Emissions Reduction for Bike Commutes
    Jul 31 2025

    This week we’re joined by Mark Kabbash, founder of The Dandy Horse. He chats with us about a new system for measuring and verifying bike commuting to obtain carbon avoidance credits. We chat about how the system works and the funding it could generate.

    Find out more about Mark's work at Linked In

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    43 m
  • Episode 542: Measuring Transportation System Success
    Jul 24 2025

    This week we’re joined once again by professor Karel Martens of Technion Israel Institute of Technology. We learn about how transportation engineering is good at measuring only one problem and ignoring others and a new tool to determine the success of transportation systems.

    Fair Transport Lab Website

    A scale for describing people's mobility status - Findings Press

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    56 m
  • Episode 541: Reclaiming the Road
    Jul 17 2025

    This week we’re joined by Oxford Ohio City Councilor and Miami of Ohio geography professor, David Prytherch. We chat about his new book Reclaiming the Road: Mobility Justice beyond Complete Streets. We chat about how pandemic open street experiments were rediscovering original uses, the cognitive benefits of experiencing car free streets, the opening of a democratic space for a discussion of what streets could and should be.

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    53 m
  • Episode 175: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - The City That Lost Its Zoning
    Jul 15 2025

    This week we're Han Solo but we've got some great items to discuss with you all. We talk about how Salt Lake lost its street design, how Charlottesville lost its zoning code, and the importance of transit to the justice system.

    Post Items

    Stop building highways - Bloomberg CityLab

    No zoning in Charlottesville - Charlottesville Tomorrow

    How Utah took away SLC's streets - Building Salt Lake

    Transit essential to the justice system - City and State PA

    Wildlife evolution - LA Times

    Bonus Items

    Building credit - Brooklyn Reader

    Cities not built for mothers - Architectural Digest

    Dutch kids happier - CNN

    Texas outlaws dealer paper plates - Jalopnik

    Chinatown rent strike works - LA Public Press

    Cutting shipping emissions - Anthropocene Magazine

    Bike commuter benefits gone - Politico Pro

    Tax deduction on car interest - Kiplinger

    Hawaii launches road user charges - Citti Magazine

    Fig trees turn CO2 to stone - Discover Magazine

    Teens taking Waymos now - Wired Magazine

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    47 m
  • Episode 540: Localities Subsidize the State DOT
    Jul 10 2025

    This week on the Talking Headways podcast we’re joined by Adie Tomer of Brookings to discuss a paper he and his team wrote about the idea of regional block grants. He discusses the local subsidies going to state DOTs and how more local funding could mean more regional collaboration on infrastructure.

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    56 m
  • Flashback: Fixing Mobility as a Service
    Jul 3 2025

    This week we’re joined by David Hencher, Director of the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies at the University of Sydney. David chats about how to fix Mobility as a Service, why transportation providers aren’t home base for these services, and proposes a new way to reduce travel and emissions called Mobility as a Feature.

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    48 m
  • Episode 174: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - A Bike Share Triathlon
    Jul 1 2025

    This week we're Han Solo again, but we discuss lead pollution and serial killers, PM 1 micro-pollution, and how ICE raids are reducing transit ridership in Los Angeles.

    Below is a full linked article list:

    Main Items

    ICE raids lead to low LA ridership - LA Times

    Tinier particles data finally collected - Washington University St. Louis

    Reversible architecture - ArchDaily

    TTC congestion management - blogTO

    Bonus Items

    KC wants to pay for block parties - Kansas City Star

    Disasters impact baby brains - Gizmodo

    Full of lead - The Overhead Wire

    Oakland block tries to quit fossil fuels - KQED

    End of Energy Star? - Smart Cities Dive

    China's high speed rail debate - Asia Times

    Arizona to vote on VMT charges - Ballotpedia

    How government can finance low cost homes - Nonprofit Quarterly

    Florida restricts bus lanes to ridership quotas - Tampa Bay Times

    New motor could change e-bikes - Electrek

    Toronto bike lane gets more traffic - Carbon Upfront!

    Oregon housing bonds surpassed expectations - Governing

    Puppies and Butterflies:

    Michelin Restaurants on LA Transit

    Bike share triathlon

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    41 m
  • Episode 539: Testing Universal Basic Mobility
    Jun 26 2025

    This week we’re joined by Madeline Brozen of the UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies. We talk about universal basic mobility and research her team has done on the LA Mobility Wallet Pilot Program.

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    55 m