Jeff Wood
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Jeff Wood is the creator of the Talking Headways podcast and editor of the newsletter The Overhead Wire.
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Talking Headways Podcast: Reducing Emissions on Highway Projects
Move Minnesota's Sam Rockwell on legislation aimed to reduce emissions from new roads and highways in the Land of 10,000 Lakes.
Talking Headways: America’s Big Problem is a Lack of Density
Let's face it, most of what we do in the United States is just a Band-Aid for a lack of density. We can do better.
Talking Headways: Want to Enjoy Nature without Destroying It? It’s A Challenge
Rural transit agencies have a real challenge getting their local customers around massive areas, plus also serve the nature tourists with the big bucks.
Talking Headways Podcast: Have Cities Run Out of Land?
Chris Redfearn of USC and Anthony Orlando of Cal Poly Pomona on why "pro-business" Texas housing markets are catching up to "pro-regulation" California and what it might mean for future city growth.
Talking Headways Podcast: IrrePLACEable
Kevin Kelley on his book Irreplaceable: How to Create Extraordinary Places that Bring People Together, and the future of downtowns.
Talking Headways Podcast: Electrify the Rails
Adrianna Rizzo of Californians for Electric Rail on California's looming lobbyist-fueled hydrogen train mistake: "We’re locking in low service for potentially decades."
Talking Headways Podcast: Post-Peaky Transit
Tracy Hadden Loh of the Brookings Institute on the impacts of the pandemic on downtowns, "activity centers" and transit usage.
Talking Headways Podcast: When Driving is Not an Option
Talking with the great Anna Zivarts about non-drivers, car seats, and the week without driving.
Talking Headways Podcast: Killed by a Traffic Engineer
Author Wes Marshall on writing process, the ideas of risk and exposure and what he learned from pouring over old transportation engineering journals.
‘Talking Headways’ Special: Let’s Understand This Congestion Pricing Debacle
Why did New York Gov. Kathy Hochul kill the first-in-the-nation toll? We talk to a New York-based transit expert to see what is going on?