Transit Unplugged

Celebrating Paul’s Newest Book: The New Future of Public Transportation

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This week we're celebrating the release of Paul's newest book, The New Future of Public Transportation, which is the sequel to The Future of Public Transportation published early in 2020. To say public transport faced an crisis or inflection point in the past four years is an understatement.

In this updated edition, Paul collected essays by 30 transit leaders from around the world covering every major topic facing transit today from workforce to safety, infrastructure to faring. On the show today Paul chats with two of the contributors, Dr. Karen Philbrick, Executive Director of the Mineta Transportation Institute, and Paige Malott, high speed rail researcher with the International Union of Railways about their chapters and their ideas on the future of public transit.

We conclude the episode with Paul talking about what's covered in each of the chapters of the book and the people who wrote them. Make sure you listen right to the end of the show so you don't miss it!

You can order the book on Amazon now: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1468607618?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_dp_1B7E4H4QFZVKHANFW7DS

Next week we have Andy Lord Commissioner for Transport for London (TfL). TfL is the largest public transport network in the world covering nearly every transport mode possible. It's a huge job and you get to hear not only about this massive system, but how Andy's experience in the aviation industry prepared him for the job.

If you have a question for Paul about anything related to public transit, zap him an email at [email protected]. Paul might even read and answer your question on a future episode of the podcast.

If you have a question or comment, email us at [email protected].

Transit Unplugged is brought to you by Modaxo and these fine folks:

Paul Comfort, host and producer
Julie Gates, executive producer
Tris Hussey, editor and writer
Tatyana Mechkarova, social media

00:05 Introducing The New Future of Public Transportation

02:29 Diving into Hot Topics with Dr. Karen Philbrick

17:38 Exploring High Speed Rail with Paige Malott

27:49 About the Book and Contributors

27:56 A Comprehensive Overview of Book Contributors

29:52 The Future of Public Transportation: A Global Perspective

33:31 Zero Emission Vehicles and the Future

34:35 Data, AI, and Cybersecurity in Transit

35:00 Funding, Faring, and the Fiscal Cliff

35:35 Geographic Futures and Global Insights

36:12 Coming up next week on Transit Unplugged