TRB's Transportation Explorers Podcast

Jane Lappin, chair of TRB’s Vehicle-Highway Automation Standing Committee, discusses advances in autonomous vehicles.

Amy Benedick, a senior study director at Westat, discusses current legislation about distracted driving, ways it can be enforced, and measures to educate the public.

Norm Augustine, chair of TRB’s 2019 Future of the Interstate report, gives an update on how those recommendations could fit into President Biden’s infrastructure plans.

Alicia Trost, Chief Communications Officer at the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART), discusses where San Francisco is in the vaccination effort and how excellent communications is crucial to getting riders back on transit.

Chris Hendrickson, NAE member and professor emeritus of civil and environmental engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, discusses how transportation, still dependent on petroleum, is now the single-largest sector for greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. How do we get to "net zero" transportation emissions by 2050?

Carlos Braceras, Executive Director for the Utah Department of Transportation, discusses how he manages people and places in the eighth-most urbanized U.S. state. He also discusses how research saves DOTs money and how young and new voices present an optimistic transportation future.

Susan Shaheen, co-director of the Transportation Sustainability Research Center and professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, discusses her latest study, "Future of Public Transit and Shared Mobility Scenario Planning for COVID 19 Recovery". She also discusses research needed both within the transportation sector and across other industries.

Katie Turnbull of the Texas A&M Transportation Institute discusses transportation priorities for the state and also for the rest of the United States as we continue recovering from COVID-19.

Former U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx grew up in a Charlotte neighborhood surrounded by freeways that he thought of as "literal walls." In this episode, he explores equity issues in transportation.