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 48: Bringing Joy with Transit and TOD
This month on the Rail~Volution podcast, we’re joined by staff from MARTA in Atlanta for a 1 on 1 conversation. Collie Greenwood, Deputy General Manager, and Jacob Vallo, Senior Director of TOD, Real…
Episode 47: The Community Knows What They Want
This month on the Railvolution podcast we’re joined by Duncan Hwong, Interim Co-Director of the Asian Pacific Network of Oregon and Gauri Rajbaidya, architect and senior associate at SERA. They chat …
Episode 46: New Solutions to New Challenges
This week on the RailVolution Podcast we’re joined by the new Rail~volution CEO Tamar Shapiro. We chat about her previous work at in cities and transportation, how to better measure transportation s…
Episode 45: No More Transit Hunger Games
This month on The Railvolution Podcast we’re featuring a 1 to 1 conversation between Dan Baer, Senior Vice President at WSP USA and Kevin Corbett, President and CEO of New Jersey Transit. Dan and Ke…
Episode 44: Rethinking City Transportation
On this month’s episode of the Rail~Volution podcast, we’re chatting with Chris Puchalsky and Andrew Simpson of the Philadelphia Office of Transportation, Infrastructure, and Sustainability. We talk…
Episode 43: Coordinating Better Transit
On this month’s episode of the Railvolution podcast we’re joined by Robert del Rosario, Director of Service Development for AC Transit in Oakland and the East Bay California. Robert talks about agen…
Episode 42: A Framework for Inclusive Healthy Places
This month on the Rail~Volution podcast we're joined by Sharon Roerty, Senior Program Officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Maki Kawaguchi, a Director at Gehl to talk about the Inclusiv…
Episode 41: A New Conversation about Development Finance
This month on the Railvolution Podcast I’m joined by Dan Nissenbaum, CEO of the Low Income Investment Fund. We chat with Dan about Liif’s many different projects including early childhood education …
Episode 40: Open Source Electric Bus
On this episode of the Rail~Volution podcast, we’re talking again about bus electrification. Erica Eggleton of the University of Washington joins us to chat about her work on Route Dynamics, an open…
Episode 39: Electric Bus Opportunities and Barriers
This week, we’re joined by Camron Gorguinpour, Director of Mobility Solutions for ENGIE Impact . We talk about Shenzhen’s 16,000 electric buses and what world cities can learn positive and negative f…
Episode 38: Latina Leaders in Transit
On this month’s episode of the Rail~Volution podcast, Angie Rivera Mal-pied-e, Board Chair of the Regional Transportation District in Denver talks with Cindy Chavez, Former Board Chair of the VTA and…
Episode 37: Acknowledge History, Shift Power, Embrace Accountability
This month on the Rail~Volution podcast, we're sharing the closing keynote discussion of the 2020 conference. Moderated by Smart Growth America CEO Calvin Gladney, Roberto Requejo of Elevated Chicago…
Episode 36: The Answer is the Arterial
As Transit Oriented Development has evolved over 25 years the transit and mobility landscape has been radically transformed by new technology, land-use patterns, and the sharing economy, especially i…
Episode 35: The Healthy Heart of a Community with Nilda Ruiz and Rose Gray
On this month’s episode of the Rail~Volution podcast, Nilda Ruiz and Rose Gray of Asociación Puertorriqueños en Marcha (APM) join the show to talk about how they’ve been able to build community thro…
Episode 34: Wayfinding in Stroller Land - A 1:1 Conversation
On this special episode of the Rail~Volution podcast, Verdran Dzebic and Ntianu Eastmond-Visani join us to talk about wayfinding apps and how improved wayfinding can enhance the customer experience.
Episode 33: Advocate to Elected - A 1:1 Conversation with Francisco Heredia and Braxton Winston
This month on the Rail~Volution podcast, Mesa Arizona City Council Member Francisco Heredia and Charlotte City Council Member Braxton Winston talk with each other about their journeys from being an a…
Episode 32: Liberating Transportation
This month on the Rail~Volution podcast we are chatting with Stephanie Gidigbi, Director of Policy and Partnerships for the Natural Resources Defense Council. Stephanie joins us to talk about federa…
Episode 31: Optimizing Transit – for the Pandemic & Community
This month on the Rail~Volution podcast, we're joined by David Huffaker, Chief Development Officer for the Port Authority of Allegheny County in the Pittsburgh region. David joins us to chat about tr…
Episode 30: Build with Health in Mind
This month on the Railvolution podcast, we're joined by Dr. Georges Benjamin, Director of the American Public Health Association. Dr. Benjamin joins us to talk about the determinants of health and h…
Episode 29: Resiliency in South Florida
This month on the Rail~Volution podcast we are chatting with Jim Murley, Chief Resilience Officer for Miami-Dade County Florida. Jim talks about climate change, sea level rise, and how South East Fl…