Welcome to the Ultimate Podcast for Transport Changemakers

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Violence against Women and Girls with Jocelyn Elleby

We measure fares, frequency and reliability, so why not fear?

Jocelyn Elleby is just two years into her career and already an expert in the safety of women and girls on public transport.

In this episode, she explains why so little of what women experience is ever reported, how AI could make CCTV useful before an incident instead of after it and the limits of relying on bystanders.

We also talk about male allies, what TfL taught me and why an argument is better than silence.

This is a topic that wasn’t be talked about when I started out in my career, and I’ve learned a lot in the last decade.

If, like me, you’re a man still learning how our service is experienced by half our customers, I highly recommend listening to this episode.

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Transport and Tech with Brian O’Rourke

I’m joined by Brian O’Rourke, CEO and co-founder of CitySwift, to explore one of the only AI companies I can think of to literally start in a bus garage.

We talk about joining messy, siloed data to improve reliability and efficiency, why “black box” tools fail schedulers, what COVID changed and what it’s like attempting to scale technology into a sector like transport.

If you want to know what happens when two 12-year-old best friends from rural Ireland (one playing with computers, one playing with buses) team up in later life, now’s your chance to find out.

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Being the Best Bus Company with Jane Cole

Today’s podcast is all about change, but it’s not primarily the sexy kind of technological change that we often think of when we think about change.

It’s about culture, community and people - but it’s the stuff that makes the difference between success and failure in the transport sector.

Jane Cole, MD of Blackpool Transport, describes the changes she’s made happen and how empowerment, community focus and investment have transformed the transport service in one of the most deprived towns in Europe.

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Jarrett Walker on How To Think About Public Transport

Jarrett Walker has been designing bus networks for thirty years. Eventually he’d done so much thinking on this topic that he wrote it all down in his book Human Transit.

In our conversation, he talks me through why it’s important to understand whether a transport network is seeking to optimise for coverage or patronage and how ‘access analysis’ can provide everyone with their own personal measure of public transport freedom.

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Patrick Warner on Decarbonisation

As the Government publishes its decarbonisation plan, lets talk to Patrick Warner (Head of Innovation at Brighton & Hove and Bus Decarbonisation lead at Liverpool City Region) about the virtues of hydrogen

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