Episode 51. Greg Lindsay chats with Nexar Co-Founder and CEO Eran Shir and RTC Senior Director of Engineering John Peñuelas about how Nexar’s pilot in Las Vegas is a successful example of how the public and private sector can collaborate to increase road safety. Thanks to Nexar's City Stream, a connected network of smart dash cameras which can identify road hazards, the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada is able to better understand and manage the city's traffic, especially around construction zones. Greg, John and Eran chat about the pilot's expansion and issues surrounding privacy and the advent of autonomous vehicles.

Episode 50. Greg Lindsay chats with Roni Floman, the VP of Marketing at Optibus, an Israel-based startup that is using A.I. to build optimized scheduling software for creating the most efficient paths for fixed-route bus services. Greg and Roni dive into how Optibus is working to revolutionize public transit by using advanced computer technology to create better bus schedules to help cities, commuters, and bus drivers to better do their jobs, and get where they're going. Optibus hopes to use optimization algorithms and A.I. to create new solutions for current scheduling inefficiencies.

Episode 48. Greg Lindsay chats with Andrei Greenawalt, Head of Public Policy at Via, about how shared, on-demand micro-transit can get people out of the private vehicle. Andrei explains how Via is working with nearly 100 cities and transit agencies to provide optimized and equitable first/last mile mobility solutions. Greg and Andrei discuss Via's numerous deployments, from its recently launched shared autonomous on-demand service in Irvine, CA to its partnership with New York City's yellow school bus fleet.

Episode 49. Greg Lindsay chats with Richard Bruce, Director of Energy, Technology and Innovation at the UK's Department for Transport, about how all the simultaneous changes happening in the mobility ecosystem can be leveraged to deliver basic environmental improvements. Richard Bruce outlines the UK’s key strategies for the future of urban mobility and highlights the necessity of modernizing the regulatory framework in order to better embrace new modes of transportation.

Episode 47. Greg Lindsay chats with Vanderbilt University's Executive Director for Mobility, Erin Hafkenschiel and NRDC Transportation Technical Advisor Zak Accuardi, about the Athens of the South's "Let's Move Nashville" mass transit plan failure. Erin, Greg and Zak look into the political issues that led voters to reject the local referendum and draw valuable lessons for public officials wishing to overcome anti-transit forces.

Episode 46. Greg Lindsay chats with Natalia Quintero, Transit Tech Lab's Program Director, about bringing in the most innovative and cutting-edge technology startups to remake New York's public transit. The Transit Tech Lab is a public-private initiative between the city's Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the Partnership for New York City. Natalia Quintero believes in finding innovative software solutions from all over the world, that can be responsive to the public transit needs of all New Yorkers.

Episode 45. Greg Lindsay chats with Yuan Shi, Global Solution Leader for New Mobility at Arcadis, about working with cities to bring about equitable micromobility first/last mile solutions. From Minneapolis to Paris, Yuan Shi believes local governments should learn from past successes and failures to implement micromobility regulations.

Episode 44. Greg Lindsay chats with Tony Pino, Bestmile's head of sales for North America, about ways to optimize fleet management. Tony Pino explains why Bestmile's modular-based fleet orchestration platform can adapt to any driving mode or vehicle brand. Greg and Tony chat about the future of autonomy and how city regulation will come into play.

Episode 43. Greg Lindsay chats with technologist Bianca Wylie, co-founder of Tech Reset Canada, about Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs project in Toronto and the many ethical questions surrounding urban data collection. Bianca Wylie believes we can't rely on data and technology to solve hard mobility infrastructure problems and that there are many trade-offs to data collection. Bianca argues cities should not be putting private companies in charge of local governance issues without consulting the public first.

Episode 42. Greg Lindsay chats with Rachel Weinberger, Senior Fellow for Transportation at the Regional Plan Association in New York, about congestion pricing in the Big Apple. New York is the first city in the US to adopt the policy and Dr. Rachel Weinberger walks us through the plan's implementation, revisiting best practices gathered from urban environments like Singapore, London and Stockholm, and explaining why congestion pricing in New York is a progressive tax which can help both alleviate congestion and fund public transit.