Save Manila's (mostly informal) public transport
Metro Manila depends on informal, lightly-regulated public transport which now faces a catastrophe as a result of this pandemic. The Mobilit...
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Reinventing Transport
The Reinventing Transport show provides practical help and encouragement on urban mobility issues for an international audience. It is for anyone, in any country, pushing for local changes t...
Episodes
19 episodesHeavyweight champions for better buses
Cities need bus improvement champions - 'heavyweights' even. For Reinventing Transport this time around I discussed bus improvements with pu...
Upward and outward urban growth and why transport folks should care
Where in the world is urban growth mainly outward onto new land? Where is it mostly upward in the form of taller buildings? These questions...
Shaping public transport
If you care about promoting public transport, you need to understand the key choices about organising and regulating it. They shape the indu...
Ending parking minimums - why, where, who, how
Minimum parking requirements are under siege and that is a very good thing. This episode examines parking minimums and the pushes in many ci...
Jakarta's transport is daunting not hopeless
Yoga Adiwinarto of ITDP Indonesia wants you to know that Jakarta's urban transport situation is not hopeless. There is progress and even a u...
Simplify and Connect - a key to better bus networks
Reinventing Transport #13 is an explainer for the idea that public transport networks can often be improved at low cost by being simplified....
Electric two-wheelers: how big will they be?
Stefan Bakker sees a big future for electric vehicles with two wheels. They get less attention than electric cars or electric buses but two-...
End mass car ownership without draconian policies?
Could we end the era of mass car ownership without a huge fight and without draconian policies. That's the focus of Reinventing Transport #1...
Auckland shows car-dependent cities how to change
This encouraging episode looks at how the car-dependent metropolis of Auckland in New Zealand has been changing course since 2003 or so. It'...
The blog that's changing Auckland and what you can learn from it
I interviewed Patrick Reynolds and Matt Lowrie, two of the bloggers on the Greater Auckland blog in New Zealand's largest city. It was a wid...
Parking: What's Wrong and How to Fix It
Parking is the focus of Episode 8 of Reinventing Transport. Highlights include how most cities plan parking like they plan toilets, and why...
Transport-based City Types and their Trajectories
This solo episode with Paul Barter offers perspective on cities and their transport systems, with the help of city types based on transport...
Reducing transport emissions: lessons from a career
Margarita Parra and Paul Barter discussed lessons from her 8 years directing the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation grant-making aimed at...
Slow is not a dirty word
Carlos Felipe Pardo and Paul Barter discussed the intriguing and neglected idea of "slowness" in urban transport. Detailed shownotes are at:...
Singapore Urban Transport: the Warts-and-All Story
Singapore's urban transport is a well known success. But, in this episode, Paul Barter shares a warts-and-all version of Singapore's transpo...
Multimodal transport: Todd Litman explains how and why
Interview with the energetic Todd Litman, founder and Executive Director of the Victoria Transport Policy Institute (VTPI), who explained so...
Streets for people in India: Shreya Gadepalli
Episode 2 of the Reinventing Transport podcast features Shreya Gadepalli of ITDP India discussing Complete Street plans (or street space rea...
Trailer Episode
This is the first episode of the Reinventing Transport show. It is a short Trailer to let you know what to expect from future episodes, whic...