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 8: Thinking About Collective Mobility
This month we're joined by Kari Watkins, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech and co-founder and "Chief Motivator" of OneBusAway, an open source platform for rea…
Episode 7: Getting to Mobility as a Service
This month on the Rail~Volution podcast we're joined by Chloe Spano of Cityway to talk about how cities can better use data to support mobility solutions. We chat about Paris' limits on single occup…
Episode 6: Investing in People
This month on the Railvolution Podcast, former President and CEO of the Low Income Investment Fund (Liif) Nancy Andrews joins us. Nancy and I chat about community development, poverty reduction stra…
Episode 5: The First Shoupista
This month on the Rail~Volution podcast, Patrick Siegman joins us to chat on the topic of parking. We chat about the etymology of the word parking, the legend that is Donald Shoup, and why the topic …
Episode 4: The New Atlanta Way
This month on the Rail~Volution Podcast, Odetta MacLeish White of the Transformation Alliance joins us to talk about transportation and planning issues in the Atlanta region. Odetta talks about displ…
Episode 3: The Lens Called Equity
This week we're joined by LA Metro CEO Phil Washington to talk about the many interesting things the agency is working on. He discusses building affordable housing near transit, testing new ideas lik…
Episode 2: The Once and Future Livable Community
This week we're joined by Mariia Zimmerman of MZ Strategies to discuss the evolution of livable communities at the federal level as well as the past and future of TOD.
Episode 1: Equity Strategies for a Transportation Corridor
Today on The Rail~Volution podcast, we’re talking with Former Director of the Central Corridor Funders Collaborative Jonathan Sage Martinson. We’ll chat about advocacy and work that the collaborative…