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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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Podcast: How to Build Stronger Suburbs

By Kinder Institute | Dec 6, 2016 | No Comments

If you think you know the suburbs, think again.

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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.

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