The Freewheeling Podcast
autor: Thomas Ableman
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Building a Brand New City with Steve McAdam
Building a Brand New City with Steve McAdam
O tomto podcastu
The Freewheeling Podcast is all about moving forwards faster.
Each week, I’ll bring you fresh voices, new ideas and unconventional thinking.
With a bias towards transport and mobility, we also span entrepreneurship and politics.
Epizody
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- Building a Brand New City with Steve McAdam · 54 min · Řada 9 Epizoda 111It sounds impossibly ambitious: a team of volunteers is seeking to build a brand new, million-person city on farmland in Suffolk. The scale of what they have in mind is…
- London-style Ticketing with Thomas Ableman · 32 min · Řada 9 Epizoda 109One in five Swiss journeys are made using Digital Pay-As-You-Go, a system that uses your phone location to track your journeys and automatically charge you the cheapest fare for…
- Innovation in Transport - an Interchat with Erika Lewis · 17 min · Řada 8 Epizoda 104Transport finds innovation hard. It is fiendishly complex, but the. Connected Places Catapult is trying to help people navigate their way through it. In this Interchat, Erika…
- AI with Andrew Browning · 33 min · Řada 9 Epizoda 108Andrew Browning is the founder and CEO of Schemeflow, an AI startup. Last week, we spoke about Combined Authorities; this week it’s AI. He created his business just weeks before…
- Making a Combined Authority work with Andrew Browning · 32 min · Řada 9 Epizoda 107Andrew Browning was the first Chief of Staff to the first Mayor of the West Midlands. As a result, he had the unique experience of being at ground zero for the creation of the…
- Violence against Women and Girls with Jocelyn Elleby · 34 min · Řada 9 Epizoda 106We 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…
- The Bee Network - An Interchat With Vernon Everitt · 17 min · Řada 8 Epizoda 102How much of the Bee Network's success is franchising, and how much is just money? In today's Interchat with Vernon Everett, Transport Commissioner for Greater Manchester and…
- The Climate Crisis: An Interchat with Ben Plowden · 1 min · Řada 9 Epizoda 104What has to change inside government before anything changes on the street? In today's Interchat with Ben Plowden, Chief Executive of Campaign for Better Transport, we discuss…
- Transport as an Enabler - An Interchat With David Skaith · 17 min · Řada 8 Epizoda 104David Skaith, the Mayor of York and North Yorkshire, joins me to discuss the transformative impact of devolution on local governance. He emphasises the critical role of…
- Autonomous Vehicles and Empty Roads - an Interchat With Paul Campion · 17 min · Řada 8 Epizoda 100What is lost when the government sells its own brain? In today's Interchat with TRL CEO Paul Campion, we discuss the privatisation of Britain's transport research laboratory and…
- Experience Design - an Interchat With Adam Scott · 17 min · Řada 8 Epizoda 104Some of my favourite conversations are those that bring in the perspective of someone from outside our sector and todays is a great example. Adam Scott designs experiences for…
- Leadership, Empowerment and the Private Sector with Katy Taylor · 39 min · Řada 8 Epizoda 97, , has worked in three different transport modes, but always for a private firm. In today’s episode, she gives a powerful defence of the role and value of the private sector in…
- Financial Sustainability at TfL - an Interchat With Andy Lord · 17 min · Řada 8 Epizoda 104What’s it like running the biggest integrated transport authority in the world when there’s not enough money around? In today’s Interchat with Transport for London Commissioner…
- Getting Britain Building with Michael Hill · 39 min · Řada 8 Epizoda 104Michael Hill used to be a civil servant but now works on policy for the campaign group Britain Remade. In that role, he’s trying to push through policy changes to get Britain…
- Indian Cities with Ruchita Bansal · 31 min · Řada 8 Epizoda 96My guest this week is a transport changemaker attempting to achieve change in the most populous country on earth. Ruchita Bansal is a transport and urban planner by background…
- Suburbs with Jonathan Bray · 44 min · Řada 8 Epizoda 104Jonathan Bray was Director of the Urban Transport Group and has spent the last year visiting suburbs all round Europe. He’s just published his findings, and it makes for a…
- Antisocial Audio with Christian Hunt · 48 min · Řada 8 Epizoda 101How can we stop people playing their TikToks out loud? You can’t say we don’t address the big policy questions on this podcast! Nevertheless, it’s an issue that really gets to…
- The Young Mobility Network with Anna Filby and Alessandro Zenati · 42 min · Řada 8 Epizoda 93During the pandemic, Anna Filby was a young transport professional struggling to connect with other young transport professionals. So she created the Young Mobility Network…
- Customer Experience with John Sills · 38 min · Řada 8 Epizoda 99John Sills is an expert in Customer Experience. He’s written a book and runs The Foundation, a leading Customer Experience consultancy. He’s worked in transport just enough to…
- GBR Customer Experience with Linda Moir and Others · 1 h 8 min · Řada 8 Epizoda 97Last month, I hosted a special webinar for Transport Focus on Customer Experience in GBR. Specifically, what will it look like if GBR is a customer experience disaster - and how…
