The Modern Mobility Podcast

Aug 27 2024 36 ep. 123 mins 11
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This podcast is for transportation planners and enthusiasts who want to learn PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS to modern day transportation challenges. Learn step-by-step how to plan for new and emerging technologies, increasing e-commerce, resiliency, micromobility, and equity, just to name a few. Co-hosts, Keli Kemp and Kirsten Mote, are certified transportation planners, national experts, and thought leaders at Modern Mobility Partners, a female and minority-owned transportation planning and engineering consulting firm in Atlanta, GA. For more information, visit www.modernmobilitypartners.com.

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Ep. 34: 6 Steps to Developing Better Planning-Level Transportation Project Cost Estimates

Aug 27 2024 28 mins  
Episode Summary: Listen to national experts and certified planners, Keli Kemp, Kirsten Mote, and Matt Reeves with Modern Mobility Partners, talk about what planners can do to develop better planning-level transportation cost estimates. Listeners will learn the following in Episode 34: How better planning level cost estimates help in the transportation planning process, including: R

Ep. 33: USDOT Discretionary Grant Applications…This…Not That (10 Strategies for a Successful Grant Application)

Aug 20 2024 30 mins  
Episode Summary: Listen to national experts and certified planners, Keli Kemp and Kirsten Mote, both with Modern Mobility Partners, talk about the best practices planners need to know about USDOT grant applications. Listeners will learn 10 strategies to apply to the following components of grant writing in Episode 033: How to identify a grant program for which a project is best sui

Ep. 32: Has the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Moved the Needle on Equity?

Aug 13 2024 26 mins  
Episode Summary: Listen to national experts and certified planners, Keli Kemp and Kirsten Mote, both with Modern Mobility Partners, talk about what planners can do to approach transportation decision-making with an equity mindset. Listeners will learn the answers to the following questions in Episode 32: How does the Biden Administration define equity? What is Justice40, and why

Ep. 31: 8 Steps to Conducting a Regional Transit Development Plan

Aug 08 2024 28 mins  
Episode Summary: Listen to national experts and certified planners, Keli Kemp and Kirsten Mote, both with Modern Mobility Partners, talk about what planners can do to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of existing transit services using a Transit Development Plan (TDP). Listeners will learn the following in Episode 31: The importance of establishing the context of where a TDP

Ep. 30: 3 Things to Know About FRA's Corridor ID Passenger Rail Program

Aug 02 2024 32 mins  
Episode Summary: Listen to national experts and certified planners, Keli Kemp and Kirsten Mote, both with Modern Mobility Partners, talk about how the Corridor ID program is progressing the future of high-speed rail in the US. Listeners will learn the answers to the following questions in Episode 30: How the Corridor ID program started and why it is important? What are the differen

Ep. 29: 6 Ways Planners Need to Consider Artificial Intelligence in Transportation Planning

Jul 24 2024 35 mins  
Episode Summary: Listen to national experts and certified planners, Keli Kemp, Kirsten Mote, and Matt Reeves with Modern Mobility Partners, talk about what planners can do to utilize Artificial Intelligence in Transportation Planning. Listeners will learn the following in Episode 29: Non-technical use cases for AI in the planning process including: Background information and report

Ep. 28: 6 Things to Know about Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles

Jul 17 2024 31 mins  
Episode Summary: Listen to national experts and certified planners, Keli Kemp and Kirsten Mote, both with Modern Mobility Partners, talk about Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles. Listeners will learn the following in Episode 028: How do fuel cell vehicles work using Hydrogen? What is the efficiency and range of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles? What is the refueling time of hydrogen fuel cell

Ep. 27: Post NEVI Plan… Where Are They Now?

Jul 09 2024 41 mins  
Episode Summary: Listen to national experts and certified planners, Keli Kemp and Kirsten Mote, both with Modern Mobility Partners, talk about what planners can do to support the ongoing NEVI plan through siting electric charging stations, planning the sites, and designing infrastructure around the stations. Listeners will learn the following in Episode 027: Understand the goals of

Ep. 26: 5 Steps to Estimating Planning Level Transit Ridership

Jul 02 2024 22 mins  
Episode Summary: Listen to national experts and certified planners, Keli Kemp and Kirsten Mote, both with Modern Mobility Partners, talk about what planners should know about estimating transit ridership. Listeners will learn the following in Episode 26: How transit planners use ridership forecasts How ridership forecasts change in different planning situations Potential data deman

Bonus Episode: 12 Things that Make the Chattanooga MPO 2050 RTP Special

Jun 21 2024 45 mins  
Episode Summary: Listen to national experts and certified planners, Keli Kemp and Kirsten Mote, both with Modern Mobility Partners interview guest speakers Melissa Taylor and Julia Billings about the innovative strategies used in the Chattanooga MPO’s 2050 Regional Transportation Plan. Listeners will learn about the following topics in this Season 4 Bonus Episode: Identifying inn