City Talks

In order to fix congestion, we need to rethink how we present the cost of roadway usage. Welcome to City Talks, brought to you by Ford Motor Company. Each week join Andrew Winston, Speaker, Author of Net Positive and Adviser to Multinationals as he facilitates conversations with experts and leaders that are working through the needs and challenges our cities face today. Come along as we explore how to make both cities and transportation more human-centered and create service-oriented approaches to mobility. On today’s episode, Andrew speaks with Joe Cortright, Principal Economist of ‘Impresa,’ a Portland-based, city-focused consulting firm. Listen as Joe and Andrew address city congestion. Shared mobility and rethinking roadway costs may be the keys to alleviating the hassle of the morning commute. Joe shares with us the latest findings of his ‘Young and Restless’ reports on the movements of young people, what Ben and Jerry’s can teach us about congestion, and what he thinks our cities might look like 20 years into the future. 

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This episode examines racial equity through transportation systems in East Austin. As a result of legislation from 1928, East Austin still faces the negative impact of racially segregated neighborhoods. In this episode of City Talks, we sit down with Kellee Coleman and Christina Willingham, who are with the Equity Office with the City of Austin, to discuss this looming issue and how increasing affordable mobility options for all people is necessary to create change.

The anticipation of greater urban concentrations is bringing challenges to urban mobility and planning. Cities are looking to technologies like 5G, connected transport and micro-mobility to deliver effective and equitable solutions to their citizens. Any solutions must also foster innovation and inclusion while building on existing infrastructure -- in fact, the three pillars at this year’s United States Conference of Mayor were: infrastructure, inclusion and innovation. In this episode, City Talks chats with Raymond Hess, Transportation Manager for the City of Ann Arbor, to discuss how strategies to meet mobility challenges are unique to each city and how data plays a critical role in understanding key mobility trends and informing decisions on how to accommodate traffic fluctuations, curb side management, and more.

The auto industry is being redrawn, re-crafted and reborn through urban mobility, and this evolution is being driven by new conversations and fresh ideas. Ford Motor Company’s City:One Challenge seeks to collaborate directly with communities in order to address the changes and challenges in how we interact with technology and transportation. In this episode, we chat with Pat Bhava and his wife Chitra regarding Miami’s tormented traffic and discover how a simple mistake inspired him to create  “PikMyKid”. The first-of-its-kind app, which was further developed through the City:One Challenge, creates a fluid solution for parents when dropping off and picking up kids, creating a more tranquil experience for parents and helping ease Miami’s notorious school traffic.

As cities continue to boom and sprawl, several cities have turned to micro-mobility solutions to alleviate traffic and pollution. E-scooters are now replacing short car and ride-hail journeys and bridging the “last mile” dilemma to and from mass transit points.

In this episode, City Talks chats with Kyle Rowe of SPIN, a property of Ford Motor Company, to discuss how the e-scooter company is working with local governments, its work across markets, and its adoption of technology and human centered design to overcome traditional transportation challenges.