The Mpact Podcast (Formerly Railvolution)
Welcome to the Mpact Podcast (Formerly Rail~Volution). Mpact is a network and an annual conference focused on ways that communities leverage major transit investments (including rail, bus rapid transit, bus, as well as bicycling walking, sharing and emerging options) to connect people with employers and neighborhoods. With the Mpact Podcast, we're delving deeper into aspects of building livable communities, with special focus on equity and community participation.
- Update frequency
- every 28 days
- Average duration
- 45 minutes
- Episodes
- 88
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Episode 87: The Cognitive Experience of a Transit User
This month on the Mpact podcast we’re joined by Ren Yee of UN Studio at the Mpact Transit + Community conference in Philadelphia. We chat about the cognitive workload of pedestrians and creating saf…
Episode 86: Preserving Missing Middle Neighborhoods
This month on the Mpact podcast we’re going back to the Mpact Transit + Community conference in Philadelphia to hear about proven approaches to saving naturally occurring affordable housing. From tan…
Episode 85: TOD and Affordable Commercial
This month on the Mpact Podcast we’re joined by Ryan Kelley, Community development Manager for Hennepin County in Minnesota. Ryan chats with us about the county’s transit-oriented communities program…
Episode 84: Wins and Co-benefits from Climate Work
This month on the Mpact podcast we’re listening in on a 1 to 1 conversation between HNTB’s Julie Eaton Ernst and Cris Liban, Sustainability Officer for LA Metro. They chat about the co-benefits of t…
Episode 83: Advancing Active Transportation in the Delaware Valley
This month on the Mpact podcast we’re joined by Cassidy Boulan and Thom Stead of the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission. We chat about their work in Philadelphia, Trenton, and greater New …
Episode 82: Cities and E-Scooters: The Portland Approach
This month on the Mpact podcast we’re joined by Dylan Rivera and Jacob Sherman of the Portland Bureau of Transportation to discuss micromobility. We chat about the importance of cities regulating acc…
Episode 81: Transit to the Great Outdoors
This month on the Mpact Podcast we have a conversation moderated by Corrie Parrish of Kittleson Associates with Andrea Breault of Cascades East Transit and Amy Schlappi of Hood River County Transport…
Episode 80: Post-Peaky Transit
This month on the Mpact podcast we’re chatting with Tracy Hadden Loh of Brookings about impacts of the pandemic on downtowns, activity centers, and transit usage. We chat about creating activity cent…
Episode 79: A New Model for Public Housing at Sun Valley
This month on the Mpact Podcast we’re joined by Erin Clark, Chief Real Estate Investment Officer of the Denver Housing Authority. We chat about the redevelopment of Sun Valley, a public housing proje…
Episode 78: Culture Change in Cleveland
This month on the Mpact podcast we’re featuring a one to one conversation featuring Billy Terry, Executive Director of the National Transit Institute at Rutgers University, and India Birdsong Terry, …
Episode 77: Public Sentiment and Public Transit
This month on the Mpact podcast, Adelee Le Grand of Intellectual Concepts is joined by Scott Wilkinson of AlphaVu for a 1 on 1 conversation. They chat about how transit agencies can get a better hand…
Episode 76: Displacement is More than Housing
This month on the Mpact podcast we’re joined by Dr. Kathryn Howell, Director of the National Center for Smart Growth at the University of Maryland. We talk about her daily e-bike commute, organizing …
Episode 75: Health in All Places
This month on the Mpact Podcast we’re at the 2023 Mpact Conference in Phoenix Arizona. Jon Ford of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco leads a panel discussing the connections between transpor…
Episode 74: Downtown or Not Downtown
This month on the Mpact podcast, we’re at the closing plenary of the Mpact Transit & Mobility conference in Phoenix. Christopher Coes, Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy at USDOT moderates…
Episode 73: Older Adults and Climate Emergencies
This month on the MPact podcast we’re joined by Danielle Arigoni, Managing Director for Policy and Solutions at The National Housing Trust. We chat about Danielle’s new book Climate Resilience for a…
Episode 72: Leveraging TOD at BART
This month on the Mpact podcast we’re joined by Abby Thorne-Lyman, Director of Real Estate and Property Development at BART. We talk about BART’s development projects and priorities, and the importa…
Episode 71: Developing with Creativity
This month on the Mpact Podcast we’re joined by Phoenix community builder Tim Sprague. We chat about supporting local culture through development projects and the importance of sustainable developmen…
Episode 70: Do It for the Neighborhood Part 2
This month on the Mpact podcast we’re listening in on part 2 of a one to one conversation between David Longoria of LISC in Phoenix, and Ryan Winkle from RAIL CDC. The two of them discuss the commun…
Episode 69: Do It for the Neighborhood Part 1
This month on the Mpact podcast we’re listening in on a one to one conversation between David Longoria of LISC in Phoenix, and Ryan Winkle from RAIL CDC. The two of them discuss the community work t…
Episode 68: Micromobility and Access
This month on the Mpact podcast, we’re joined by Hussain Mahfouz of Transport for Cairo and Adham Kalila of Streetlight Data to talk about their new report created for NUMO All Possible Commutes: Ho…