The Courier
by Jonah Bliss
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How to (Wisely) Spend a Fortune on Transit, Down Under
How to (Wisely) Spend a Fortune on Transit, Down Under
About this podcast
Jonah and Greg give you the low down on all the week's latest urbanism, delivery, mobility and tech policy developments.
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Episodes
The newest 20 of 39 episodes
- How to (Wisely) Spend a Fortune on Transit, Down Under · 47 min · Season 4Australia and America have a lot in common: sprawling suburbs, a deep love affair with the automobile and like just about everywhere in the Anglosphere — an inability to build…
- How Do Machines Map the World? A Conversation With Geospatial Legend Brian McClendon · 40 min · Season 4An autonomous vehicle can have the greatest lidar and cameras in the world, but how does it “understand” what it’s looking at? Robotaxis and delivery bots alike need a source of…
- From RV Rentals to Fleet Management to AV Insurance · 59 min · Season 4Building the world’s biggest RV rental platform would be ambitious enough. But what if you also launched a suite of fleet-management tools, and then an entirely new division…
- Today's Profitable Mobility Startups Have The "Luxury of Optionality" Says Stifel's Florent Roulet · 38 min · Season 3It’s been a rocky road for new mobility startups these past few years. Late 2020 until early 2022 saw rock bottom interest rates fuel massive funding for all sorts of new…
- How to Amortize an Ebike, With Wombi CEO Dan Carr · 48 min · Season 3Far too many bike shops treat two-wheelers like they’re high-end sporting equipment: sleek and expensive pieces of hardware that are meant to be stored in the closet when not out…
- The McKinsey Center for Future Mobility’s Bold Claims About the Coming AV Revolution · 47 min · Season 3As the world transitions to autonomous mobility, consumer uptake rests on four core pillars: affordability, accessibility, safety and sustainability. In a bold new report, Ani…
- Could a New Mayor Transform LA’s Streets, Housing and City Services? Councilmember Nithya Raman Wants a City That Works · 32 min · Season 3Los Angeles has always been the city of the future, offering the world a vision of what’s to come, for both better and worse. Lately, while the region has still delivered on some…
- Reverse Logistics: So Hot Right Now! Uber's Head of Grocery & Retail Partnerships Talks Returns Launch & 10 Years of Growth · 43 min · Season 3Third party delivery has gone on a wild ride over the last decade, going from an urban niche to a worldwide must-have. Along the way, the array of items that consumers can get at…
- AVs' Impact on Cities, Mobility & Delivery · 47 min · Season 3As AVs start to impact everything from traditional ridesharing, to mobility more broadly, to even delivery and city-scale systems, it's time to think about how public and private…
- This Fighter Pilot Knows Why Autonomous Machines Shouldn't Settle for Anything Less Than Perfection · 37 min · Season 3There’s nothing worse than an almost perfect machine. If a machine misbehaves consistently, users will know not to trust it. But if it works right 99.9% of the time, by the time…
- How to Build a Winning Coalition for Complete Streets · 43 min · Season 3Los Angeles is many things, but it’s definitely a town where diffuse power structures make it difficult to build political movements. That’s doubly true when you’re asking both…
- Can NYC Build a Sustainable Mobility Startup Ecosystem? LACI BATWorks' Alex Mitchell Is Leading the Charge · 42 min · Season 3When it comes to sustainable mobility startups, New York City finds itself in a peculiar position. Blessed with a legacy of strong public transit infrastructure, local politicos…
- Are Rising Insurance Premiums Eating the Mobility Industry Alive? · 49 min · Season 3Some days it feels like insurance is devouring the entire mobility economy, with rising premiums taking down transportation options new and old alike. Auto insurance premiums…
- A Fast Casual Restaurateur's "Love-Hate Relationship" with Delivery · 42 min · Season 3 Episode 1Your favorite podcast — Zag Talk — is back for an all new season. Today we kick things off by chatting with Seth Cohen, Co-Founder of Sweetfin, a 15-unit fast casual restaurant…
- Can Sustainable Delivery Be a Sustainable Business? Delivery Mates' Kevin Savage Makes the Case · 38 min · Season 2Over the past few months we’ve had the distinct pleasure of digging deep in the world of sustainable delivery: we’ve kicked the tires on the new Honda Fastport, snuck in to…
- Lyft’s Not Content With Second Place in the Robotaxi Race · 32 min · Season 2As robotaxis race towards becoming a regular part of our mobility landscape, it at first looked like Lyft had no interest in joining the competition, instead letting deep pocked…
- Can Corporations Nudge Workers Towards Greener Commuting Options? · 37 minA city can spend all the money in the world on making its streets multi-modal, on transit investments and the like, but if all the jobs are still located out in the burbs…
- Senator Scott Wiener Discusses YIMBY's Big Win: SB79 · 47 minDense housing and public transit: two great tastes that taste better together. You’d think this classic combo would be a no-brainer, as building mid-rise housing helps with…
- Can Portable Benefits Improve Gig Work? With DoorDash's Max Rettig · 43 min · Season 2Managing policy for DoorDash is no mean feat; the globe-spanning 3PD often finds itself interfacing with cities across all sorts of issues: traffic / road safety, merchant…
- Getting Ebikes Into the Hands of Hard-Working Couriers · 54 min · Season 2Delivery is tough work, especially in dense, urban environments. Couriers and policymakers often find themselves pulled between competing priorities: cash-strapped workers often…
