Mobility Lines Podcast National Center for Mobility Management

This episode is a conversation with Eliot McFadden. Elliott is a shared-use mobility industry leader with over a decade of experience bringing innovative solutions to the market in the transportation space. As the Greater Minnesota Shared Mobility Program Coordinator at the Minnesota Department of Transportation, he helps communities and transit agencies throughout Minnesota plan and pilot new services using shared used mobility options, including car share, ride share, bike share, scooters, and micro-transit.

The topic today is the Southern Minnesota Mobility-as-a-Service project, funded by a Federal Transit Administration Accelerating Innovative Mobility (AIM) Grant.

This is the last of three segments where NCMM interviews Jana Sochor, about a discussion paper for the International Transport Forum entitled, “Piecing together the puzzle; mobility as a service from the user and service design perspectives.” Jana is a Senior Researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, and at the time of writing the discussion paper, was also a Senior Researcher at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden. In this third and final segment of the interview, we talk about the user's experience of MaaS and frameworks for understanding how users can come to embrace new approaches to mobiity.

This is the second of three segments I interview Jana Sochor about a discussion paper for the International Transport Forum entitled, “Piecing together the puzzle; mobility as a service from the user and service design perspectives”. Jana is a Senior Researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, and at the time of writing the discussion paper, was also a Senior Researcher at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden. In this second segment of the interview, we focus on frameworks to design and evaluate implementations of mobility as a service.

In this episode, NCMM interviews Jana Sochor about a discussion paper for the international transport forum entitled, Piecing Together the Puzzle Mobility as a Service from the user and service design perspectives. Jana is a senior researcher in Sweden at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg. And at the time of writing of the discussion paper was a senior researcher at Rice Research Institutes of Sweden. In this part one of the series, we talked about the history of mobility as a service and the many ways the term has been used since it was first coined.



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In this episode of the Mobility Lines Podcast, we talk with Janae Futrell, NCMM’s OC/OC systems consultant and owner of Civic Sphere. We talk about Janae's work developing a raft of new resources regarding one-call/one-click systems. We touch on key elements of successful OC/OC systems including education, ways to surmount tricky issues, and the potential for these systems to improve access for riders with barriers to their mobility. The OC/OC resource center is located here, on NCMM's website.

The final of three episodes in a conversation conducted by Kevin Chambers, NCMM’s technologist, and transit technology expert Carol Schweiger. Carol is the head of Schweiger Consulting, based in Boston. Carol has been supporting transit agencies around the world for over 40 years is nationally and internationally recognized in transportation technology consulting.

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