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Talking Headways Podcast: Self Driving Cars Getting Drunk on Motor Oil

By Jeff Wood | Aug 4, 2017 | No Comments
For the 150th episode of the podcast, this week we welcome back Talking Headways co-founder Tanya Snyder, now a reporter at Politico Magazine. We get into the developing topic of regulating self-driving vehicles, including issues of children’s safety and state versus federal rules. We also discuss aviation legislation in the House of Representatives, what it means for drones, and whether private jets should pay more for air traffic control.
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Talking Headways Podcast: Planning Is Easy, Zoning Is Hard

By Jeff Wood | Jul 21, 2017 | No Comments
This week's guest is Lee Einsweiler of Code Studio in Austin, Texas. We talk about all things land use and zoning -- what goes into a land use code, the approaches to zoning in different countries, and of course the dreaded topic of parking.
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Talking Headways Podcast: Sharing a Ride to the Future

By Jeff Wood | Jul 13, 2017 | No Comments
This week's guest on Talking Headways is Zack Wasserman, head of global business development at Via, a ride-hailing company headquartered in New York. We talk about Via’s role as a trip provider, as well as a software builder for transit agencies, and how we can get more people sharing rides. We also discuss how transportation systems are likely to change in lower density places and the role of technological and policy innovation in both the public and private transportation sectors.
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Talking Headways Podcast: Avoiding Carbon Emissions by Taking Transit

By Jeff Wood | Jul 6, 2017 | No Comments
This week we’re coming to you from the UITP Global Transport Summit in Montreal with guest Projjal Dutta, director of sustainability at the New York MTA. We chat about the idea of "transit-avoided carbon," how you measure emissions, and the impact of Superstorm Sandy on sustainability thinking in the New York region.
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Talking Headways Podcast: Supply and Demand Is So Boring

By Jeff Wood | Jun 2, 2017 | No Comments
We’re back with Dr. Lisa Schweitzer of USC’s Price School of Public Policy this week for part two of our discussion. We talk about the idea of jobs/housing balance, her blog post on the Smartest Boy Urbanist, and her favorite planning books and mentors, plus we get a preview of her upcoming book on firearms and cities.
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Talking Headways Podcast: Lightsaber Fights From Autonomous Pods

By Jeff Wood | May 25, 2017 | No Comments
This week's guest is Dr. Lisa Schweitzer of USC's Sol Price School of Public Policy. In the first of a two-part series, Dr. Schweitzer talks about how her students respond to urban planning classes, what a recent controversy in a Los Angeles City Council election reveals about bike advocacy, and autonomous vehicles and land use policy.
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Talking Headways Podcast: The Battery Powered Electric Bus

By Jeff Wood | Apr 20, 2017 | No Comments
This week's guest is Matt Horton of Proterra, a company that designs and manufactures battery powered electric buses. We cover the basics of electric buses, power consumption and recharging, the benefits and costs, as well as potential environmental effects.
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Talking Headways Podcast: When Relatives Take Transit, You Ride Too  

By Jeff Wood | Mar 28, 2017 | No Comments
This week's guest is Darnell Grisby, director of policy development and research at the American Public Transportation Association. We discuss the national drop in transit ridership, who rides transit in the United States, and federal policy going forward.
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Talking Headways Podcast: Can All Cities Be Great?

By Jeff Wood | Feb 17, 2017 | No Comments
The guest this episode is Alexander Garvin, author of the recently released book What Makes a Great City. We chat about why people are an important factor in building cities and taking pictures; Houston’s Post Oak Boulevard is going to show up Chicago, San Francisco, and New York’s best streets; and Alexander’s heroes, from Edmund Bacon to Haussmann to Robert Moses.
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Talking Headways Podcast: Colonias — Informal Housing in the U.S.

By Jeff Wood | Dec 8, 2016 | No Comments
This week on Talking Headways, Emily Perlmeter of the Federal Reserve Bank in Dallas discusses the half million people living in informal settlements known as Colonias, on the U.S. side of the Mexican border.
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Talking Headways Podcast: A Bus Full of People Should Go Ahead of a Tesla

By Jeff Wood | Dec 2, 2016 | No Comments
This week’s episode returns to the Shared Use Mobility Summit in Chicago for a great discussion of how the changing technology and information landscape could yield more equitable outcomes.

Talking Headways Podcast: Transportation and Empty Storefronts

By Jeff Wood | Nov 15, 2016 | No Comments
Talking Headways is coming to you this week from Madison, Wisconsin, and the Empty Storefronts Conference.
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