Best Researching Transit Podcasts (2024)

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RT 49 – Marcela Munizaga – Transit Data for Forecasting and Analysis 32:43

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In this episode Prof Graham Currie talks to Prof Marcela Munizaga from the Universidad de Chile. Marcela is Vice Dean at the Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, but also the Vice President at the Santiago Metro. Graham and Marcela initially talk about Marcela’s roles in administration, teaching and research at the University. Marcela out…

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RT 48 – Jan-Dirk Schmöcker –Hyperpaths and the benefits of unreliability 40:31

1+ y ago40:31

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This episode’s guest is Associate Professor Jan-Dirk Schmöcker from the Department of Urban Management at Kyoto University in Japan. Jan-Dirk has been in Japan for 15 years, 12 of them at Kyoto University. He is part of the Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) group at the university and has a background in transportation planning and assignment mod…

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RT 47 – Stefan Voß – Transit Robustness, data and the state of the research field 33:39

1+ y ago33:39

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In this episode Professor Graham Currie meets with Professor Stefan Voß, who is Director of the Institute of Information Systems and (until the end of 2022 was) the Dean of the Hamburg Business School at the University of Hamburg. Stefan has a background in mathematics, computer science and related fields. He and Graham discuss this and the fields …

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RT 46 – Avi Ceder – From Bus Driving to Transit Scheduling and Visioning Future Cities that Work 37:04

1+ y ago37:04

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Researching Transit comes to you again from the Conference on Advanced Systems in Public Transport (CASPT2022) in Tel Aviv, Israel. In this episode Professor Graham Currie met with another of the conference organisers, Professor Avi Ceder. Avi is the Emeritus Professor at the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering and at the Transportation …

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RT 45 – Marcus Enoch – Researching Transport Strategy 41:57

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Our guest for this episode of Researching Transit is Professor Marcus Enoch of Loughborough University. Graham and Marcus discuss Marcus’ somewhat sudden commencement of his PhD studies at the Open University, with a research topic agreed to in the taxi from the railway station! They also discuss the 18 months of journalism Marcus undertook for Loc…

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RT 44 – Yuval Hadas – Transfers, dynamic fares, priority and chewing gum? 38:33

1+ y ago38:33

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Researching Transit comes to you this episode from the Conference on Advanced Systems in Public Transport (CASPT2022) in Tel Aviv, Israel. Here Professor Graham Currie met with one of the conference organisers, Dr Yuval Hadas from Bar-Ilan University, which is in Ramat Gan, a city near Tel Aviv.Yuval is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Manage…

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RT 43 –Martin Trépanier – Getting more value from smartcard data 34:39

1+ y ago34:39

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In this episode of Researching Transit Professor Graham Currie talks to Professor Martin Trépanier from Polytechnique Montréal. Martin is part of the Department of Mathematical and Industrial Engineering, and also the Director of the Interuniversity Research Centre on Enterprise Networks, Logistics and Transportation (CIRRELT), and Director Chair i…

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RT 42 – Peter White – Public Transport Research in the UK 31:55

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This episode of Researching Transit again comes to you all the way from the United Kingdom, as Prof Graham Currie chats with (Emeritus) Prof Peter White from the University of Westminster. Peter has had a long and varied career in teaching and research at Westminster, having joined the university in 1971, back when it was known as the Polytechnic o…

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RT 41 – Karen Lucas – Researching Transport and Social Exclusion 38:24

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Researching Transit continues in the United Kingdom, heading further north for this episode to talk with Professor Karen Lucas of the University of Manchester. Karen is Professor of Human Geography and Deputy Director at the Manchester Urban Institute. She is also the Director of Research in the Department of Geography within the School of Environm…

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RT 40 – Richard Anderson – International Transit Benchmarking Research at Imperial College London 36:35

1+ y ago36:35

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This episode comes to you from Imperial College London, in the United Kingdom, where Prof Graham Currie recently met with Richard Anderson. Richard is the Managing Director of the Applied Research group within the Transport Strategy Centre (TSC) at Imperial’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He leads the group’s industry facing wo…

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RT39 - Christian Wolmar - Researching Rail Transport History 47:45

1+ y ago47:45

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In this episode Prof Graham Currie talks to Christian Wolmar, a prolific author and journalist specialising in transport and railway history. Christian studied economics at Warwick University, but after graduating in 1971 began a career as a journalist. In 1992 he became the transport correspondent at The Independent newspaper. He has since written…

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RT 38 – Andrew Nash – Implementing transit priority in Zurich 44:40

3y ago44:40

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In this episode Dr James Reynolds talks to Andrew Nash about implementing priority for buses and trams in Zurich, Switzerland. Mr Nash is a Senior Researcher at the St Pölten University of Applied Sciences in Austria. He is also a Lecturer at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and a widely published transport researcher The episode starts with a brief discus…

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RT37 – Jeff Brown and Joel Mendez – Paying for Public Transport 45:45

3y ago45:45

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This is the fifteenth episode in Researching Transit’s Handbook of Public Transport Research Series. Links to the book can be found at the end of the notes. In this episode Professor Graham Currie talks to Professor Jeff Brown and Dr Joel Mendez about funding public transport. Professor Brown is from the College of Social Sciences & Public Policy a…

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RT36 – Juan Carlos Munoz – Public Transport Operations Control Technologies 36:59

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This is the fourteenth episode in Researching Transit's Handbook of Public Transport Research Series. Links to the book can be found at the end of the notes. In this episode, Professor Graham Currie talks to Professor Juan Carlos Munoz from the Department of Transport and Logistics Engineering at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Professor …

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RT35 – Niels van Oort – Public Transport Reliability 32:41

3y ago32:41

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This is the thirteenth episode in the Researching Transit Handbook of Public Transport Research Series. Links to the book can be found at the end of the notes. In this episode Professor Graham Currie talks to Assistant Professor Niels van Oort from the Technical University of Delft (TU Delft). Assistant Professor van Oort is the Co-Director of the …

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RT34 – Wijnand Veeneman – Public Transport Governance 38:39

3y ago38:39

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This is the twelfth episode in Researching Transit's Handbook of Public Transport Research Series. Links to the book can be found at the end of the notes. In this episode Professor Graham Currie talks to Associate Professor Wijnand Veeneman from the Technical University of Delft (TU Delft). Associate Professor Veeneman is part the Organisation and …

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RT33 – Selby Coxon – Design Research Innovations in Public Transport 38:35

3y ago38:35

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This is the eleventh episode in Researching Transit's Handbook of Public Transport Research Series. Links to the book can be found at the end of the notes. In this episode, Professor Graham Currie talks to Associate Professor Selby Coxon of Monash University’s Department of Design. Associate Professor Coxon is the Director of the Mobility Design La…

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RT32 – Graham Currie and Carlyn Muir – Personal Safety – Research Frontiers & New Tools 32:18

3y ago32:18

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This is the tenth episode in Researching Transit's Handbook of Public Transport Research Series. Links to the book can be found at the end of the notes. In this episode, Dr Laura Aston talks to Professor Graham Currie and Dr Carlyn Muir. Dr Muir is a Senior Research Fellow at the Monash University Accident Research Centre, and has a background in p…

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RT31 – Alexa Delbosc & Graham Currie: The paradigm shift in revenue protection research and practice 41:46

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This is the ninth episode in Researching Transit's Handbook of Public Transport Research Series. Links to the book can be found at the end of the notes. In this episode, Laura Aston speaks to Dr Alexa Delbosc and Professor Graham Currie. Today’s guests will be familiar to man. Dr Delbosc was interviewed in episode 22, addressing the psychology of p…

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RT30 – Amer Shalaby - Research Innovations in Delay and Disruption Management 40:38

3y ago40:38

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This is the eighth episode in Researching Transit's Handbook of Public Transport Research Series. Links to the book can be found at the end of the notes. In this episode, Professor Graham Currie speaks to Amer Shalaby, Professor and Bahen/Tanenbaum Chair in the Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada. Shalaby’s pass…

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RT29 - Kari Watkins - Advances in Transit Customer Information 39:12

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This is the seventh episode in Researching Transit's Handbook of Public Transport Research Series. Links to the book can be found at the end of the notes. In this episode, Professor Graham Currie speaks to Kari E. Watkins, Frederick Law Olmsted Associate Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Tech…

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RT28 – Ahmed El-Geneidy – Customer Satisfaction Research Innovations 44:35

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This is the fourth episode in the Researching Transit Handbook of Public Transport Research series. Links to obtain the book can be found at the end of the notes.In this episode, Professor Graham Curries speaks to Professor Ahmed El-Geneidy. El-Geneidy is professor of transport planning at McGill University, and one of the co-authors of Chapter 4 o…

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RT27 – Margareta Friman and Maria Borjesson – The Swedish Bus Ridership Revolution 45:51

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This is the fifth episode in the Researching Transit Handbook of Public Transport Research series. Links to the book can be found at the end of the notes.In this episode, Professor Graham Currie speaks to Margareta Friman and Maria Borjesson, two of the authors of Chapter 20 of the Handbook: Large increases in bus use in Sweden: lessons learned. Ma…

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RT26 - John Preston – A Total Social Cost Perspective on Public Transport 49:30

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This is the fourth episode in the Researching Transit Handbook of Public Transport Research series. Links to obtain the book can be found at the end of the notes.In this episode, Professor Graham Currie speaks to the author of Chapter 9, The Total Social Cost (TSC) of Public Transport Modes, Professor John Preston. John Preston is Professor of Rail…

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RT25 – Susan Shaheen and Emma Lucken – Mobility on demand services and public transport 47:01

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This is the third episode in the Researching Transit Handbook of Public Transport Research series. Links to obtain the book can be found at the end of the notes.In this episode, Professor Graham Curries speaks to authors of Chapter 19, Incorporating Mobility on Demand (MOD) and Mobility as a Service (MaaS) automotive services into Public Transporta…

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RT24 - Dr Oded Cats - Network Resilience and The Smart Public Transport Lab 45:39

3+ y ago45:39

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This is the second episode in the Researching Transit Handbook of Public Transport Research series. Links to obtain the book can be found at the end of the notes. In this episode, Professor Graham Currie speaks to another of the book’s authors, Associate Professor Oded Cats. Dr Cats cofounded and co-directs the Smart Public Transport Lab, in the De…

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RT23- Introducing the Handbook of Public Transport Research 33:20

3+ y ago33:20

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Professor Graham Currie introduces a new book that is hot off the press: The Handbook of Public Transport Research. The book, edited by Professor Currie, is the most recent in the Research Handbooks in Transport Studies series, published by Edward Elgar. It brings together the latest research from 52 authors across 10 countries, packed into 21 chap…

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RT22 - Dr Alexa Delbosc - The Psychology of Public Transport 31:56

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Dr Alexa Delbosc is a Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Transport Studies at Monash University. With a PhD in civil engineering and a Masters in social psychology, Dr Delbosc’s expertise is geared toward understanding the psychology of transport use. In today’s show, she speaks with Professor Graham Currie about the psychology of public transport…

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RT21 – Dr Robbie Napper – Applied design as a research tool for transit 50:20

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Dr Robbie Napper is an industrial designer who applies his skills to make public transport easier to use. Robbie works as a lecturer and researcher in the Monash University Department of Design, and is Deputy Director of the Mobility Design Lab, as well as a member of a number of TRB research committees. Robbie is interested in making sure transit …

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RT20 - Brendon Hemily - Making Academic Research Relevant to the Transit Industry 39:57

3+ y ago39:57

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Brendon Hemily is an independent public transport consultant based in Toronto, and Chair of the Public Transportation Group at Transportation Research Board (TRB). TRB brings together researchers, practitioners, government agency staff, and others, from all modes of transportation, to identify research needs, review current research, conduct resear…

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Invoking 'Transitional Justice' without a Transition: Reflections on Sri Lanka's Transitional Justice Programme, 2015-2019 41:55

3+ y ago41:55

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Kumaravadivel Guruparan gives a talk as part of the Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series. In 2015, Sri Lankan witnessed regime change that removed President Mahinda Rajapaksa from power. Mahinda Rajapaksa was the President who led the war against the LTTE to its finish in 2009, a war in which thousands of Tamil civilians were …

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Kashmir and the State of Exception 29:44

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Habeel Iqbal gives a talk as part of the Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series. Kashmir is among the oldest unresolved international conflicts on the United Nations' agenda. Over the last few decades, India has imposed a state of permanent emergency in Indian-administered Kashmir, through 'draconian' domestic laws that quell th…

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Australian War Crimes in Afghanistan: National Mechanisms, Positive Complementarity and Command Responsibility 42:09

3+ y ago42:09

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Douglas Guilfoyle gives a talk as part of the Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series. Following persistent rumours of criminal misconduct by some Australian Special Forces personnel in Afghanistan, an administrative inquiry was launched in 2016 by the Inspector-General of the Australian Defence Force. That inquiry's report revea…

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The War Lawyers: The United States, Israel and Juridical Warfare 1:00:20

3+ y ago1:00:20

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This talk was given as part of the Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series. In this seminar, Dr Craig Jones discusses his newly published book, The War Lawyers. Craig’s monograph examines the laws of war interpreted and applied by military lawyers to aerial targeting operations carried out by the US military in Iraq and Afghanist…

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Transitional Justice Through the Lens of Art 32:31

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This talk was given as part of the Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series. This panel discussion explores the role of art in transitional justice and the depiction of transitional justice through art. We are joined by panellists Leslie Thomas, Bernadette Vivuya and Nadia Siddiqui. The event was co-organised with the Oxford Insti…

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The Justice of Visual Art - Creative State-Building in Times of Transition 42:19

3+ y ago42:19

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This talk was given as part of the Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series. Art is a radical form of political participation in times of transition. Arising out of 11 months of fieldwork at the Constitutional Court of South Africa and the South Africa Pavilion at the Venice Art Biennale, which included 130 interviews with key dec…

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Political Crimes and Amnesties: Scope and Limitations to Transitions to Democracy 49:03

4y ago49:03

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This talk was given as part of the Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series. Amnesties are a very common mechanism in transitions to democracy, approximately 85% of amnesties grant pardon to political crimes. However, the question of “what are political crimes in the amnesties context?” remains unanswered. The traditional approach…

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RT19 - Laura Aston - Linking the built environment to train, tram and bus use 37:29

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In today’s show, Graham turns the tables on Laura, delving in to her research which unpacks the relationship between the built environment and public transport use.Laura starts by providing some context about the role of land use in influencing travel demand, before defining the term “built environment” in the context of travel behaviour. Land use …

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RT18 - Dr John Hultén - Public transport research partnerships in Sweden 42:33

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In this episode of Researching Transit, Professor Graham Currie speaks with Dr John Hultén from K2; the Swedish Knowledge Centre for Public Transport. Directed by Dr Hultén, K2 derives its name from the Swedish words kollektivtrafik (public transportation) and kunskap (knowledge). The centre was formed out of a drive for more comprehensive and inte…

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RT17 - Dr Claire Boulangé and Oliver Lock - Digital tools for participatory transport planning 1:01:33

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Creating tools that are capable of engaging the public in the design of local transport and planning has never been more important. In today’s show, we explore how digital tools can facilitate smarter and more collaborative planning. I spoke to Oliver Lock from the University of New South Wale’s City Analystics and Expanded Perception & Interaction…

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RT16 - Dr Lorelei Schmitt - First trips and multi-modal integration matter 44:44

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Dr Lorelei Schmitt now works as Principal Multimodal Advisor at Waka Kotahi, Māori for ‘travelling together as one’(1), and the name of the New Zealand Transport Agency. In today’s show, Lorelei discusses the importance of first impressions on public transport and the collaborative ways NZTA is building the agency’s capability to integrate differen…

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RT15 - Fostering Transit Innovation: TRB's Transit IDEA Program 34:52

4y ago34:52

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In this episode of Researching Transit, Professor Graham Currie speaks with innovators Dr. Velvet Basemera-Fitzpatrick and Dr. Drew Dara-Abrams. Dr. Fitzpatrick is a Senior Program Officer for the Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. TRB, host of the world’s largest annual meeting for …

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RT14 - Harnessing data science in public transport operations and planning 42:33

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Dr Zhenliang Ma is a researcher and lecturer at Monash University and co-director of the graduate transport program jointly run by Monash University and Southeast University in China. Dr Ma moved to Monash after working at MIT, to join its interdisciplinary public research team. This episode addresses the potential for data analytics to help transi…

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RT13 - Angel Cantillo - Understanding fare evasion to improve transit 31:28

4y ago31:28

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In this episode of Researching Transit, Angel Cantillo from the Catholic University of Santiago explains the impacts of fare evasion, and new approaches to understanding and addressing the motivations of fare evadersFare evasion impacts the operating costs of transit network around the world. It can create negative perceptions toward the public tra…

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RT12 - Dr Taru Jain - The role of car share in the mobility ecosystem 40:32

4y ago40:32

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Car share is a subscription service for cars. It allows users to drive a car, without owning a car. The city of Melbourne, Australia, plays host to over 1,500 shared vehicles which operate as part of commercial fleets or peer-to-peer (privately owned) vehicles. But the benefits of car share go beyond those to the individual (flexibility and cost sa…

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RT11 - Dr George Sun - Rail transit research at LTA Singapore 29:03

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Singapore is a leading force in railway reliability and service quality. In this episode of researching transit, Professor Graham Currie speaks with George Sun of Singapore’s Land Transport Authority’s (LTA), to find out how research contributes to Singapore’s rail transit success. Mr Sun discusses how Singapore’s rapid network growth is an importa…

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RT10 - Dr Kara Kockelman - Self-driving vehicle fleets: a new form of transit 38:25

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In our tenth show, we explore a variety of topics that showcase Dr Kara Kockelman’s curiosity and the collaboration across disciplines that is a hallmark of her research. Dr Kockelman provides a refreshing take on the power of statistics as a tool for making sense of information. It has allowed her to probe a range of issues and bridge topics such …

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RT9 - Dr Evan Gwee - On-road transit research at LTA Singapore 25:16

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In this episode of Researching Transit, Professor Graham Currie chats to Dr Evan Gwee, who has 25 years’ experience working in the Land Transport Authority (LTA) of Singapore. Dr. Gwee currently oversees the Transport Research Division in the LTA. Government’s role in overseeing and stewarding research is one of the key factors contributing to Sing…

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RT8 - Dr Laura McCarthy - Public transport use among new parents 26:59

4+ y ago26:59

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In this episode of Researching Transit, Dr Laura McCarthy from Monash University highlights the need to design public transport services that are convenient and safe for new parents. Her research uses a life course approach to understand the mobility changes that occur during the transition to parenthood. Dr McCarthy’s research, including qualitati…

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RT7 - Dr Waiyan Leong - Transit Economic Research at LTA Singapore 32:36

4+ y ago32:36

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In this episode of Researching Transit, Dr Waiyan Leong, Chief Transport Economist of Singapore’s Land Transport Authority, joins Professor Graham Currie to discuss transport economics and project evaluation. Dr Leong explains the scope of research undertaken by his five-member team, comprising four economists and a psychologist. Two key areas of f…

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