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 67: Building Statewide Wins for Housing and Climate
Today on the Mpact podcast we’re chatting with Alex Brennan, Executive Director of Futurewise in Washington State. We chat about this most recent legislative session and bills on missing middle housi…
Episode 66: Women Who Ride Transit
This month on the Mpact podcast we’re chatting with Meghna Khanna of LA Metro and Scarlett DeLeon of the Alliance for Community Transit LA about women who ride transit. We talk about LA Metro’s firs…
Episode 65: Caretakers of the Public Realm
This month on the Mpact podcast we’re joined by Andrew Jones, Program director for the Uptown and Downtown Oakland Community Benefits District. We chat about urban place management, how urban spaces …
Episode 64: A County Voice for Transit
This month on the Mpact podcast we are back at the Rail~Volution conference in Miami last fall. We chat with Commissioner Eileen Higgins about the South Dade Busway, the importance of FTA ratings in…
Episode 63: Homelessness and Public Transportation
This month on the Mpact podcast, we’re going back to Railvolution Miami for the Tuesday plenary. Daniel Gibson moderates a panel featuring LA Metro CEO Stephanie Wiggins, SEPTA CEO Leslie Richards, a…
Episode 62: Community Centered Transit with Tamika Butler
This month on the Mpact podcast we’re going back to Miami for the closing conference plenary featuring the amazing Tamika Butler. Tamika discusses community centered transit, equity, and thinking abo…
Episode 61: Building Resilience
This month on the Rail~Volution podcast we’re going to the Monday morning plenary at this year’s conference in Miami.
We have a panel on Building Resilience in Miami and Across the Country hosted by…
Episode 60: Bike to Bus in Detroit
This month on the Railvolution podcast we’re joined by Jacob Graham, a Program Manager for MoGo Bike Share in Detroit. Jacob chats with us about how the system works in Detroit, how bike share riders…
Episode 59: A New World of Transportation Demand Management
This month on The Rail~volution Podcast Tien-Tien Chan of Nelson Nygaard and Jessica Roberts of Alta Planning and Design join the show to talk about Transportation Demand Management or TDM. Tien-Tien…
Episode 58: The Evolution of Broward County
This month on the Rail~Volution podcast, Broward MPO Executive Director Greg Stuart joins the show to talk about the history of Broward County, it's connections to the rest of South Florida, the hist…
Replay: Episode 29 - Resiliency in South Florida
Today on the podcast we’re going back in time to a discussion we had with Jim Murley, Chief Resilience Officer for Miami Dade County, about resiliency in south florida. Jim talks about climate change…
Episode 57: Transit Stop Transformation
This month on the RailVolution podcast Kim Cella of Citizens for Modern Transit and Sheila Holm of AARP discuss how they are transforming transit stops in St. Louis. We chat about how they involve th…
Episode 56: Inside the Phoenix TOD Community Plan
This month on the Railvolution podcast… we’re listening in on a 1 to 1 conversation between City of Phoenix planner Elias Valencia, and community champion Victor Vidales. Elias and Victor talk about …
Episode 55: Portrait of a Developer
This month on the RailVolution podcast we’re having a 1 to 1 conversation between Developer Johnny Opara of JO Companies and Lea Hargett, Principal of JOG Associates. They talk about LISC’s Capacity …
Episode 54: Mode Shift for Federal Funding
This month on the Rail~Volution podcast we're joined by Harriet Tregoning, Director at NUMO, and Yonah Freemark, a senior research associate at the Urban Institute to talk about their report, Charti…
Episode 53: A New Conversation about Transit in Durham
This month on the railvolution podcast we’re featuring a 1 to 1 conversation between Aidil Ortiz, Principal at Aidilisms and MaryKate Morookian, a transit planner at Kimley Horn. Aidil and MaryKate d…
Episode 52: Climate Friendly Neighborhoods
This month on the Rail~volution podcast we’re joined by Adie Tomer from Brookings to talk about how transit oriented development and active transportation play into climate strategies over the long t…
Episode 51: A Grassroots Bus Network Redesign
This month on the Railvolution podcast, we are featuring a one to one conversation between Carlos Cruz-Casas, Assistant Director, Department of Transportation and Public Works for Miami Dade County, …
Episode 50: Leading the Charge for Policy Change
This month on the Rail~Volution podcast, we’re back at this fall’s virtual conference. Former BART GM Grace Crunican moderates a panel discussing the role of board members in transit agencies with B…
Episode 49: Growing Transit Systems for a New World
This month on the Rail~Volution podcast, we’re at the 2021 Virtual Railvolution conference. Adelee Le Grand, CEO of the Hillsborough Area Regional Transit System in Tampa moderates a panel featuring…