Thinking Transportation Podcast

FROM VOLUME 58, NUMBER 1 (2022)

Texas Transportation Researcher: Volume 58, Number 1.

FROM VOLUME 58,
NUMBER 1 (2022)

Download, listen, and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Every other week, we interview a TTI expert or special guest on a wide range of transportation topics and discuss how those topics impact the average person.

Upsides and Downsides

Transportation and public health share a complicated union.

How we develop our transportation systems has direct and lasting impacts on personal well-being. Associate Research Scientist Ben Ettelman explains how newly identified pathways can help agencies ensure that the goals for efficient mobility and robust public health are inextricably linked.

View Thinking Transportation Podcast Episode 27.

First, Do No Harm

In a transportation research rivalry, everyone is a winner.

Unintended encounters with cars and trucks are bad news for animals. Not only do creatures face dangers on existing roads, they’re often imperiled from the moment road construction begins. Assistant Research Scientist Jett McFalls talks about why protecting endangered snakes and toads is good for the creatures, and good for keeping road projects on schedule and on budget too.

View Thinking Transportation Podcast Episode 28.