Laura Chace, president and CEO of ITS America, joins the podcast to discuss the MobilityXX Pledge, an initiative led by ITS America, WTS, and The Ray to advance the role of women as leaders within the transportation industry. She also talks about current priorities at ITS America, including integrating new technologies under the Infrastructure and Investment Act, and the future of vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications. Laura also touches on how ITE can continue to partner with her organization to empower transportation professionals to improve their communities.

Kelley Coyner, CEO and founder of Innovation4Mobility, discusses the current state of autonomous vehicle (AV) development and deployment, and how this technology marries accessibility, connectivity, electrification, and “shareability” to get the best possible outcome from our transportation system. She also touches on low-speed AVs in transit, including case study examples where these autonomous vehicles are being utilized to improve mobility and the quality of life in communities. Finally, Kelley ties the recently passed Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to the critical ways in which U.S. infrastructure needs to be improved for more widespread use of AVs.

ITE’s Lisa Fontana Tierney and Kevin Hooper discuss the newly released 11th edition of ITE’s Trip Generation Manual on this episode of the ITE Talks Transportation podcast. They address the significantly expanded database including person, walk, bicycle, transit, motor vehicle, and truck trip generation and characteristics associated with an individual development site or land use. They also highlight the expanded database including new and reclassified land uses as well as the addition of several land use subcategories. Lisa and Kevin also provide an overview of the updated features of the ITETripGen web app, which helps the analyst access trip generation data plots and supplemental trip generation materials more quickly and easily.

#ITETalksTransportation host, Bernie Wagenblast, shares hosting duties for this podcast with Justin Ward, Head of Policy and Practice, CIHT (Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation), London, UK. They speak about the evolution of urban form and function with with Noreen McDonald, Chair, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

This month, Bernie Wagenblast talks with Carol Schweiger, President at Schweiger Consulting LLC and Co-Chair of TRB Committee on Innovative Public Transportation Services and Technologies. Carol has more than 40 years of experience in transportation consulting, nationally and internationally recognized in the area of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and Advanced Public Transportation Systems (APTS).

During this conversation, Carol talks about the deployment of MaaS/MOD strategies, reflecting on how the pandemic impacted implementation, pilots in the U.S. and internationally, and the wide range of factors that need to be considered.

Director of the California Department of Transportation, Toks Omishakin, discusses how the agency dealt with the challenges of the pandemic as well as the strategies it is employing to create safer, more livable, and more equitable communities.