From the National Center for Mobility Management, a technical assistance center funded by the Federal Transit Administration to promote customer-centered mobility strategies that advance good health, economic vitality, self-sufficiency, and community. The Mobility Lines podcast covers myriad topics of interest to mobility management and transit professionals and is disseminated in the interest of information exchange. Neither NCMM nor the FTA assumes liability for its content or use. The opinions and conclusions expressed herein are solely those of the authors and guests.
Episode 10: Eliot McFadden and the Southern Minnesota MaaS project
This episode is a conversation with Eliot McFadden. Elliott is a shared-use mobility industry leader with over a decade of experience bringing innovative solutions to the market in the transportation space. As the Greater Minnesota Shared Mobility Program Coordinator at the Minnesota Department of Transportation, he helps communities and transit agencies throughout Minnesota plan and pilot new services using shared used mobility options, including car share, ride share, bike share, scooters, and micro-transit.
The topic today is the Southern Minnesota Mobility-as-a-Service project, funded by a Federal Transit Administration Accelerating Innovative Mobility (AIM) Grant.
15 Mar 2022
Episode 9: Interview with Jana Sochor, Part 3
This is the last of three segments where NCMM interviews Jana Sochor, about a discussion paper for the International Transport Forum entitled, “Piecing together the puzzle; mobility as a service from the user and service design perspectives.” Jana is a Senior Researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, and at the time of writing the discussion paper, was also a Senior Researcher at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden. In this third and final segment of the interview, we talk about the user's experience of MaaS and frameworks for understanding how users can come to embrace new approaches to mobiity.
3 Feb 2022
Episode 8: Interview with Jana Sochor, Part 2
This is the second of three segments I interview Jana Sochor about a discussion paper for the International Transport Forum entitled, “Piecing together the puzzle; mobility as a service from the user and service design perspectives”. Jana is a Senior Researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, and at the time of writing the discussion paper, was also a Senior Researcher at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden. In this second segment of the interview, we focus on frameworks to design and evaluate implementations of mobility as a service.
11 Jan 2022
Episode 7: Interview with Jana Sochor, Part 1
In this episode, NCMM interviews Jana Sochor about a discussion paper for the international transport forum entitled, Piecing Together the Puzzle Mobility as a Service from the user and service design perspectives. Jana is a senior researcher in Sweden at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg. And at the time of writing of the discussion paper was a senior researcher at Rice Research Institutes of Sweden. In this part one of the series, we talked about the history of mobility as a service and the many ways the term has been used since it was first coined.
Read Transcript of the Episode (https://nationalcenterformobilitymanagement.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/2022_01_Episode_7_MaaS1.pdf)
15 Sept 2021
Episode 6: One-Call/One-Click Systems
In this episode of the Mobility Lines Podcast, we talk with Janae Futrell, NCMM’s OC/OC systems consultant and owner of Civic Sphere (https://www.civicsphere.com/). We talk about Janae's work developing a raft of new resources regarding one-call/one-click systems. We touch on key elements of successful OC/OC systems including education, ways to surmount tricky issues, and the potential for these systems to improve access for riders with barriers to their mobility. The OC/OC resource center is located here (https://nationalcenterformobilitymanagement.org/one-call-one-click-resource-center/), on NCMM's website.
19 Aug 2021
Episode 5: Autonomous Vehicles
The final of three episodes in a conversation conducted by Kevin Chambers, NCMM’s technologist, and transit technology expert Carol Schweiger. Carol is the head of Schweiger Consulting, based in Boston. Carol has been supporting transit agencies around the world for over 40 years is nationally and internationally recognized in transportation technology consulting.
Read the Transcript of the Episode (https://nationalcenterformobilitymanagement.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/2021_08_Episode_5_AVs.pdf)
19 Aug 2021
Episode 4: Mobility as a Service
The second of three episodes in a conversation conducted by Kevin Chambers, NCMM’s technologist, and transit technology expert Carol Schweiger. Carol is the head of Schweiger Consulting, based in Boston. Carol has been supporting transit agencies around the world for over 40 years is nationally and internationally recognized in transportation technology consulting.
Read the Transcript of the Episode (https://nationalcenterformobilitymanagement.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/2021_08_Episode_4_MaaS.pdf)
19 Aug 2021
Episode 3: Open Data and Open Source Technology
The first of three episodes in a conversation conducted by Kevin Chambers, NCMM’s technologist, and transit technology expert Carol Schweiger. Carol is the head of Schweiger Consulting, based in Boston. Carol has been supporting transit agencies around the world for over 40 years is nationally and internationally recognized in transportation technology consulting.
See a Transcript of the Episode (https://nationalcenterformobilitymanagement.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/2021_08_Episode_3_Open_Data_Open_Source.pdf)
1 Oct 2020
Episode 2: New Hampshire's Vision for Statewide Mobility Management
The second episode of the Mobility Lines Podcast is a discussion between Jerom Theunissen, Dr. Judy Shanley, and Fred Roberge (https://www.linkedin.com/in/fred-roberge-54b8835) of Easterseals New Hampshire. The discussion focused upon the efforts of the New Hampshire State Coordinating Council for Community Transportation (SCC) (https://www.nh.gov/dot/programs/scc/), discussing its history, current initiatives, and lessons for states looking to establish similar efforts for promoting mobility management in their states.
Read the Transcript of the Episode (https://nationalcenterformobilitymanagement.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Mobility-Lines-Podcast-002-Fred-Roberge_otter.ai_.txt)
This inaugural episode of the Mobility Lines Podcast is a discussion between Dr. Judy Shanley and Dr. P.S. Sriraj (https://nationalcenterformobilitymanagement.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Dr-PS-Sriraj-Biography-1.pdf) of the University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC). The two discussed the findings of NCMM and UIC’s research on the factors affecting the creation and success of statewide mobility management networks.
Read a Transcript of the Episode (https://nationalcenterformobilitymanagement.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Ep1_Transcript-1.pdf)
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