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Episode 37. Greg Lindsay chats with Josh Cohen, National Director of Policy at TransLoc, about co-creating ways to fill the gaps where fixed route transit is not available. TransLoc works directly with transit agencies and cities to solve mobility challenges in suburban, rural and smaller urban communities. Josh hosts a mobility podcast of his own, The Movement, where he seeks to understand how to engage with communities to bring about a green, equitable and accessible mobility future.

Episode 36. Recorded live from the Motor City. Greg Lindsay and Jessica Robinson, cofounder of the Detroit Mobility Lab and Executive Director at the Michigan Mobility Institute, chat about how electrification and automation will impact the mobility workforce. Jessica and her business partner Chris Thomas's research focuses on the people that will fuel the mobility revolution and seeks to understand how to attract and leverage new talents, software developers especially, through new forms of education.

Episode 35. Greg Lindsay chats with New York State Senator Jessica Ramos about the transportation challenges faced by her District 13 constituents. Greg and Senator Ramos chat about transportation equity, ways to increase micromobility use, living up to Vision Zero and MTA governance. Senator Ramos believes funds should be used to fix the city's ageing subway system rather than to build casinos and wants to put the MTA’s budget in open data form to better understand how the agency is spending its money.

Episode 34. Greg Lindsay sat down with Kent Larson, Director of City Science Initiative at the MIT Media Lab, at the Moscow Urban Forum 2019. Kent and his City Science team are working on developing lightweight autonomous micro-vehicle working prototypes that combine the best attributes of dockless bikes and autonomous ridesharing, without any of the negatives. Kent and his team use interactive tools to build consensus in communities and find bottom-up solutions to urban problems. Kent and Greg chat about the intersection between housing and transportation. Kent's upcoming masterclass, "A World Without Slums", will look into how informal transportation, micro-vehicles and drones can provide transit and delivery to slums.

Episode 33. This conversation between Greg Lindsay and Assaf Biderman, founder and CEO of Superpedestrian and Associate Director of the MIT SENSEable City Lab, was recorded on location at the Moscow Urban Forum 2019. Assaf taught at the Strelka Institute and feels the city of Moscow has become a much more walkable than it was 8 years ago. Assaf and Greg chat about ride sharing in the context of multimodality, how the e-scooter business model can become sustainable and the importance of data infrastructure and for cities to provide their imput.

Episode 32. Greg Lindsay chats with Bits and Atoms Principal Consultant Anthony Townsend about his upcoming book, "The Ghost Road," where he deconstructs the myths surrounding autonomous vehicles and analyzes their long-term effects. Anthony Townsend believes it is essential to regulate the business side of automation and that congestion pricing is the "beginning of a slippery slope towards financializing all movement." Greg and Anthony discuss how multiple forms of automation will impact our culture and the built environment.

Episode 31. Greg Lindsay chats with Don Burnette, co-founder and CEO at Kodiak Robotics. Don Burnette believes trucking will be the first commercially viable application of autonomous vehicle technology and that autonomous trucks can drive much more safety and efficiency to the system. Kodiak Robotics seeks to revolutionize freight transportation with a single network, connected autonomous trucking fleet.

Episode 30. Greg Lindsay chats with Dr. Henrik Haenecke, member of the Management Board for Berlin's public transport operator, BVG. Dr. Haenecke tells us all about how Jelbi, Berlin's groundbreaking all-in-one app Mobility as a Service platform came about and how it works. BVG took an incremental approach to implementing this ambitious experiment. The public transportation operator needed to convince private sector mobility providers to join forces and integrate by offering to share customer data, and reconcile with transit weary Berliners through an audacious marketing campaign.

Episode 29. Greg Lindsay chats with MetaProp Venture Advisor Elie Finegold about the intersection of multi-modal transportation and real-estate development. Elie is a New Yorker living car-free in Dallas, and has seen the e-scooter boom dramatically increase the number of Dallasites walking in the street. From delivery services to the advent of autonomy, Greg and Elie examine how the mobility revolution will impact the value of real-estate in the near future.

Episode 28. Greg Lindsay chats with Curbed's Urbanism Editor Alissa Walker about changing behavior and moving beyond cars. Greg and Alissa take a deep dive into the Los Angeles mobility scene, from walkable urbanism, micromobility options and dedicated bus lanes to congestion pricing and SB 50.