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Jeff Wood

Recent Posts

Talking Headways Podcast: Culture Is Designed Every Century

By Jeff Wood | Oct 28, 2021 | No Comments
This week we’re joined by Dutch architect Ton Venhoeven. We chat about Utrecht’s new tram station TOD, the difference between the 15 minute and Micro City, planning policy and its history in the Netherlands, and the future of cities.

Talking Headways Podcast: How Partisanship Influences Transportation Reform

By Jeff Wood | Oct 22, 2021 | No Comments
This week we're joined by Kelcie Ralph, Nick Klein, and Calvin Thigpen, who talk about their recent paper "Political Partisanship and Transportation Reform." We chat about why they wrote the paper, what they found out about partisanship and transportation policy, and why actors across the political spectrum have little understanding of induced demand.

Talking Headways Podcast: Asphalt – A History

By Jeff Wood | Oct 14, 2021 | No Comments
This week we’re joined by Kenneth O’Reilly to talk about his book "Asphalt: A History." We chat about, um, asphalt (which is actually fascinating!).

Talking Headways Podcast: How Berlin Encourages Active Transportation

By Jeff Wood | Oct 7, 2021 | No Comments
This week we’re joined by Roland Stimpel of the German Pedestrian Association Fussverkehr. Stimpel chats with us about Berlin’s new mobility laws, including the 2018 Mobility Act and 2021’s pedestrian law amendments. We also talk about SUVs, the struggle to find public servants, and Ampelmännchen, the traffic-light man.

Talking Headways Podcast: What We Can Do to Depave Cities

By Jeff Wood | Sep 30, 2021 | No Comments
This week on the podcast, we're joined by Mary Pat McGuire, associate professor of landscape architecture at the University of Illinois. McGuire talks with us about what happens to water after it hits the pavement, the damaging environmental effects of covering cities in pavement, and steps we can take to reduce runoff in green cities.

Talking Headways Podcast: The Built Environment Memory Hole

By Jeff Wood | Sep 9, 2021 | No Comments
This week we’re joined by Tufts Professor Justin Hollander. Hollander chats with us about a range of topics, including VMT Taxes, using eye-tracking software to measure the effects of the built environment on people’s minds, and the most recent census release.

Talking Headways Podcast: Biking to the Stadium

By Jeff Wood | Sep 2, 2021 | No Comments
This week we’re joined by new Rail~Volution CEO Tamar Shapiro. We chat about her previous work in transportation and city planning at organizations such as NUMO and The Governor's Institute, how to measure transportation success, and the "transportation parades" before German soccer games.

Talking Headways Podcast: How We’ve Subsidized Driving (and What to Do About It)

By Jeff Wood | Aug 26, 2021 | No Comments
This week we’re joined by Todd Litman, executive director of the Victoria Transport Policy Institute. Litman discusses his book "New Mobilities: Smart Planning for Emerging Transportation Technologies." We reframe the transportation investments we make, talk about sharing information, and discuss why air taxis might not be the future.
This week we're joined by Melissa and Chris Bruntlett to talk about their book, "Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives." We chat about the ambient stress and anxiety created by auto-oriented cities, the mental energy saved by car-light spaces, and the difference between engineering and ecological resilience.

Talking Headways Podcast: Saved Mental Energy

By Jeff Wood | Aug 16, 2021 | No Comments
This week we're joined by Melissa and Chris Bruntlett to talk about their book, "Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives." We chat about the ambient stress and anxiety created by auto-oriented cities, the mental energy saved by car-light spaces, and the difference between engineering and ecological resilience.

Talking Headways Podcast: No More Transit Hunger Games

By Jeff Wood | Jul 29, 2021 | No Comments
This week Dan Baer, senior vice president at WSP, talks with Kevin Corbett, president and CEO of New Jersey Transit. In this one-on-one conversation, Baer and Corbett talk about NJ Transit’s response to the pandemic, bus electrification, new technologies, and much more.

Talking Headways Podcast: This Food Pyramid Would be All Cars

By Jeff Wood | Jul 22, 2021 | No Comments
This week we’re joined by Zabe Bent, director of design for the National Association of City Transportation Officials. We chat about how we think too much about the future and growth, the MUTCD process, and how she would start the design an infrastructure bill.

Talking Headways Podcast: Man’s Best Friend on Transit

By Jeff Wood | Jul 15, 2021 | No Comments
This week we’re joined by Dr. Jennifer Kent, senior research fellow in urbanism at the Sydney School of Architecture. Kent talks with us about why we travel, the effect of family on our travel behavior, and the idea of “messy trips.” But, mostly, we talk about how dogs effect people’s trip choices, whether they will get a car just for the dog or be willing to get rid of a car because the transit system will let them take their dogs.
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