TRB's Transportation Explorers Podcast

Jacky Grimshaw, Vice President of Government Affairs at the Center for Neighborhood Technology, discusses how to get engineers and policymakers to understand equity.

Anne Strauss-Wieder, TRB’s 2022 Deen recipient, discusses how the freight and port industries are adapting to how they move goods through COVID-19.

Alan Jette and Gary Weissel discuss a National Academies/TRB report that finds securing personal motorized wheelchairs on commercial airplanes is challenging but feasible.

Herby Lissade, an active TRB Volunteer, discusses his work dealing with natural disasters in California and Haiti as well as 9/11 in New York City.

Carol Schweiger, a transit consultant who has authored numerous TRB reports, discusses how "mobility as a service" can become a successful model.

Shawn Wilson, Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development, discusses how his state is handling the effects of climate change and building more resilience.

Gloria Jeff, the Director of Rethinking I-94 at the Minnesota Department of Transportation, discusses how transportation planners can learn from the past and bake equity into their processes moving forward.

Kara Kockelman, a professor of transportation engineering at the University of Texas, Austin, discusses how the focus on and advertisement of gas prices is odd since commodities like milk have much more price fluctuation.

Stewart Mader of VaxTransit discusses transit innovations and ways to communicate its benefits.