Talking Headways Podcast: The Future Is Not Far Away
Our guest this week is Sylvain Haon of the International Association of Public Transport ahead of the organization's global summit in Montreal. We talk about big transit projects happening around the world, the transition toward mobility as a service, sustainable mobility planning in Europe, and how autonomous vehicles will complement transit in the future.
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Jeff Wood
1:32 PM EDT on April 10, 2017
Our guest this week is Sylvain Haon of the International Association of Public Transport ahead of the organization’s global summit in Montreal. We talk about big transit projects happening around the world, the transition toward mobility as a service, sustainable mobility planning in Europe, and how autonomous vehicles will complement transit in the future.
Jeff Wood is the creator of the Talking Headways podcast and editor of the newsletter The Overhead Wire.
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