Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

This week we're chatting with Geoff Boeing, Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Spatial Analysis at the Sol Price School of Public Policy at USC. Geoff talks all things data and streets, focusing first on data usage, moving on to street network design, and then to urban design. For more information on us visit http://theoverheadwire.com Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire

This week I'm solo on the podcast talking about corporate landlords, Austin Transportation, the BQE tunnel, Indianapolis' transit mayhem and more! News Indy transit threatened - Indianapolis Star An $11B tunnel for NYC? - New York Times Sunnyside Yards plan - Wall Street Journal Odds and Ends Austin expanding I-35? - Austin American Statesman Texas high speed rail deal - RFI Heathrow 3rd runway stopped - Guardian Story of the Week New Mobility + Transit - Traffic Technology Today Germany's pedestrian plan framework - City Fix Corporate Landlords - New York Times DC plan for free transit - Washington Post Free transit reaction - GGWash Puppies and Butterflies Oldest buildings in US cities - ArchDaily For more information on our work visit http://theoverheadwire Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire

This week on the podcast we are chatting with Adrienne Heim and Rafe Rabalais from the SFMTA about the Potrero Yard electric bus and housing project. We chat about modernization, planning, electricity use and much much more!

This is our last week at TRB and we're back on the poster board floor talking with professors and students about their research. This week they cover topics including trip routing with smart phones, stop sign impacts on safety, how rain affects bus travel times, transit agency equity analysis, and much more. To find out more about the presentations or people, links are provided below. Rebecca Kiriazes - Georgia Tech - Research Yousteena Bocktor - McGill University - Research Patrick Loa - University of Toronto - Research Margarita Novales - Universidade Da Coruna Spain - Research Torrey Lyons - UNC Chapel Hill - Research Sultan Ali - Florida International University Travis Moe/Nicolas Farenchak - University of New Mexico - Research Andrew Schouten - UCLA ITS Josef Szende - NYCDOT

This week Chrissy Mancini Nichols is back on the show and we talk HS2 in England, London's congestion, Los Angeles data and disparities in urban areas in the United States. News LA wins Uber appeal - Los Angeles Times HS2 Moves Forward - Guardian Rose Lanes in Portland - Portland Oregonian Rich cities vs growing cities - New York Times Odds and Ends Moscow subway microbiome - Genetic Engineering and Biotech News Cincinnati solar farms - Smart Cities Dive Bike commute joy - SSTI Story of the Week London's Congestion - Guardian Puppies and Butterflies Seattle Tree Singers - The Stranger

This week and next we'll be sharing poster presentations from January's Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting in Washington DC. Each year professors and students from around the world come to present their transportation research in a great hall of knowledge that some believe is the best part of the conference. Getting to talk with folks about their work is extremely satisfying. If you want to learn more about any of the following researchers work, check out our show notes in your podcatcher of choice for links to their work. 1. The 85th Percentile - UCLA Luskin School - Brian Taylor and Yu Hong Hwang - Research Link 2. A Proactive Approach to Redefining Child Road Safety - and Vision Zero - University of Colorado at Denver - Wes Marshall - YouTube Presentation 3. Who is Distracted by Distracted Pedestrians? - Rutgers University - Professor Kelcie Ralph 4. Enhancing Cybersecurity in Public Transportation - University of South Florida- Kevin Dennis and Sean Barbeau - Research 5. Results of the Flower Street Bus Only Lane Pilot - UCLA Luskin School - Cassie Halls - Research 6. The E-Bike Potential: Estimating the Effect of E-Bikes on Person Miles Travelled and Greenhouse Gas on Person Miles Travelled and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Emissions - Portland State University - Mike McQueen - Research 7. Evaluating Uses of Curb Space in NYC - Harvard Kennedy School - Daniel Comeaux 8. Are Cities Prepared for Autonomous Vehicles? - MIT - Annie Hudson - Research 9. Lessons learned from the large-scale application of Driver Feedback Signs in an urban city - University of Alberta - Mingjian Wu - Research Thanks for listening. You can follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire or go to http://theoverheadwire.com

This week, Professor David Levinson of the University of Sydney joins the podcast to discuss the creation and politics of research journals, the accessibility of journal articles, and the benefits of open access publishing. They also explore the concept of the '30-minute city' and how to improve accessibility through infrastructure design and traffic signals.

This week on Mondays, Ian Griffiths of Seamless Bay Area joins the show to talk about connecting the dots on transit agency integration, a national architecture executive order, and a little bit of the details on Amazon's HQ2. News Seamless transit - SF Chronicle Federal architecture order 1 - Architecture Record Part 2 - The New Republic Unaffordable Rental Housing 1 - Reuters Part 2 - Harvard JCHS Odds and Ends Paris streets and cycling - Eltis Suburbs around the world - CityLab 10 Day hospital build - Core77 Story of the Week LA and Tokyo - Archinect Bezos and the Musk - Bloomberg Puppies and Butterflies The coyote and the badger Submit a transit mascot for your agency using #transitmascot

This week we're joined Professor David Levinson of the University of Sydney. Professor Levinson spoke to us at the Transportation Research Board conference in Washington DC about his work on measuring access, pricing, understanding the growth of cities, and transport as a utility. This is part 1 of 2. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Find us online at http://theoverheadwire.com

This week Laura Bliss joins the show to talk about SB50's demise, the closing of Market Street to cars, and a red wagon in Germany full of cell phones creating digital traffic. Sharon Feigon also lets us in on what's happening at the Shared Use Mobility Summit in Chicago. News The demise of SB50 - Los Angeles Times New transportation bill coming? - Politico Market Street goes free - Streetsblog USA Odds and Ends American houses have more bathrooms - The Atlantic UPS electric vehicles - Engadget Degraded air quality in US Metros - Environment America Story of the Week Creating traffic jams with phones - The Verge Vacancy Taxes - WBUR