Talking Transport Transformation

Next Stop #6 I Entrepreneurship in Mobility

11 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Mobility is one of the hardest spaces to build in. Cities are complex, change is slow, and decisions made today shape daily life for decades. In this...

Next Stop #5 I Ten Years of TUMI

05 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This special New Year’s episode of Next Stop marks ten years of the Transformative Urban Mobility Initiative (TUMI) – a decade of working with cit...

Next Stop #4 I Mental Health & Everyday Mobility with Shaimaa Refaat

28 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This episode looks at mental health through the everyday realities of how we move. From car-centric cities to walkable neighborhoods, we explore how ...

Next Stop #3 | All About Sustainable Transport with Transport for Cairo

31 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This episode looks at sustainable transport through the lens of Cairo: a city of over 20 million people where mobility, resilience, and history inters...

Next Stop #2 | Car-Free Cities with Bronwen Thornton

30 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Next Stop #2 | On Car-Free Cities What does “car-free” really mean in practice? Is it a ban, a phased reduction, or a rebalancing of priorities? ...

Next Stop #1 | Remembering Cecilia

27 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Next Stop #1 | Remembering Cecilia 🌻 In this first episode of the Next Stop campaign, our Youth Ambassador for Inclusion & Sustainable Transport, ...

S02-E33 | The Influence of Data and Technology on Mobility and Public Transportation with Sarayu Natarajan

09 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

S02-E32 | Exploratory walks with Consuelo Araneda Díaz

21 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

S02-E31 | The Intersection of Care and Mobility

05 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we delve into the concept of mobility of care, an often-overlooked aspect of urban mobility that is crucial for creating inclusive an...

S02-E30 | Mainstreaming Popular Transport and its importance in the Global South

11 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

S02-E29 | Why Gender-Transformative Transport?

28 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

S02-E28 | Empowering Equality: The Role of E-Mobility in Fostering Gender Inclusivity and Equity

07 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In today's podcast episode, we delve into the dynamic realm of e-mobility and its potential to unlock new opportunities for greater gender equity and ...

S02-E27 | Mobility Justice for All with Lucas Snaije

07 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Urban transport planning can be gender-friendly and inclusive – Lucas Snaije from BYCS, an Amsterdam-based NGO for promoting cycling in cities, will...

S02-E26 | Walkability with Jorge Cáñez

09 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, recorded at the Walk21 conference, we sat down with Jorge Cáñez, who is part of the Kounkuey Design Initiative. KDI is a nonprofit ...

S02-E25 | Feminist transport policy with Laura Ballesteros

28 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Join us in exploring transport policy from the perspective of women in Latin America by listening to this amazing podcast episode featuring Laura Ball...

S02-E24 | Road Safety Advocacy and Youth Empowerment with Yasmine Al Moghrabi

31 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Ever wondered about the link among road safety, sustainable mobility and youth? Or why road safety is a feminist cause? Join us in this inspiring epis...

S02-E23 | Elevating Mobility of Care in Transport Planning with Aimée Gauthier

27 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Have you ever wondered about the hidden trips that underpin the care work essential to our daily lives? Inés Sánchez de Madariaga coined the concept...

S02-E22 | Unveiling the Transformative Power of Cycling in Nairobi with Cyprine Odada Mitchell

29 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Are you ready to uncover the transformative power of cycling in Nairobi? In a city where cycling is often associated with either poverty or an elitist...

S02-E21 | The right to free movement with Robin Chase

01 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Imagine: Sustainable mobility that lets people move autonomously at all ages and income levels! Our special guest Robin Chase paints a clear vision an...

S02-E20 | A Feminist View on Ukraine's Mobility Landscape with Olesia Kholopik

13 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we are meeting Olesia Kholopik, the Director of the Centre for Democracy and Rule of Law in Ukraine. We discuss the challenges for ro...

S02-E19 | Feminist Perspectives on Biking and Commuting with Keisha Mayuga

09 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Join us as we meet Keisha Mayuga, a remarkable feminist voice in the field of transportation. Keisha is a cycling activist and researcher, who has wor...

S02-E18 | Improving informal transport in eastern Africa with Tom Courtright

26 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Many people worldwide rely on public transport, whether it is a government-regulated or an informal, less fixed system. Informal transport represents ...

S02-E17 | The future of trolley bus systems with Adrian Kobayashi

15 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How does the future for the world’s almost 300 electric trolley bus networks look like? In fact, many systems feature outdated vehicles and low serv...

S02-E16 | Talking Inclusive Mobility with Crystal Asige and Neil Taylor

10 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Crystal Asige leader the Ability Programme in Kenya seeks to create awareness around the intersectionalities of being a young, black-African woman and...

S02-E15 | Urban Ropeways as sustainable means of transport with Torsten Bäuerlen

06 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Doppelmayr/ Garaventa Group builds ropeways all over the world. 15,400 ropeway systems in 96 states have already been realized. In today's episode...

S02-E14 | A green and just transition for transport workers with Bruono Dobrusin

08 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) fights to improve working lives and is the voice for nearly 20 million working men and women a...

S02-E13 | Improving urban logistics on two wheels with Jérôme Lühr

11 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We all enjoy getting our online orders quickly delivered right to our doorsteps. However, most of us do not question the negative side effects of it. ...

S02-E12 | Innovative payment systems for e-mobility with Elena Kornettka

14 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

GLS Mobilität – or GLS Mobility – is part of the GLS Bank, the first sustainable bank in Germany. As part of the GLS Community, GLS Mobilität ac...

S02-E11 | Overcoming Transport Poverty with Dr. Giulio Mattioli

14 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Giulio Mattioli conducts research at the Department of Transport Planning at the Technische Universität Dortmund in Germany as the project leader...

S02-E10 | Promoting cycling in urban mobility with Jill Warren

25 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What role does ‘cycling’ play in the urban mobility system and what can be done to promote this sustainable practice? Our guest, Jill Warren, CEO ...

S02-E09 | Mobility Justice and access to Urban Leisure with Shahin Shakibaei

11 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What is Urban Leisure and how do various public transport users have varying levels of access? Our guest, Shahin Shakibaei, a researcher at Istanbul T...

S02-E08 | Empowering women in Zambia through cycling with Wyson Lungu

14 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How can cycling empower women in Africa? Our special guest on this episode has an answer. Wyson Lungo, CEO, and founder of Onyx was introduced to us t...

S02-E07 | Electromobility in Sub-Saharan Africa with Dr. Katherine Collett

27 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The global transport sector is changing – more and more countries are establishing ambitious targets in support of transport electrification. To ach...

S02-E06 | Urban Mobility in Tirana with Anuela Ristani

23 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Anuela Ristani is the Deputy Mayor in Tirana, the capital city of Albania. As the city faced rapid urban growth in the last decades the government had...

S02-E05 | Investing in active mobility with Carly Gilbert-Patrick

12 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Why is it that the benefits of active mobility have been widely underestimated? In this episode Carly Gilbert-Patrick will bring us closer to an answe...

S02-E04 | Curbing Traffic with Melissa and Chris Bruntlett

14 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In 2018, Melissa and Chris Bruntlett became the unofficial ambassadors for Dutch cities with the publication of their first book “Building the Cycli...

S02-E03 | Data for Public Transport with Devin de Vries

10 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Public Transport remains the backbone of mobility systems in major cities around the world. And as urbanization continues, the formal and informal pub...

S02-E02 | Transitioning to E-Mobility with Erika Myers

12 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Electric vehicles are viewed as critical for transport decarbonization. To understand how to best leverage the potentials of a large-scale electrifica...

S02-E01 | Gender-inclusive mobility with Ines Kawgan-Kagan and Sonal Shah

08 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Urban transport is often seen as gender neutral – a road or bus system benefits all equally. But really: it´s not! Women and men have different mob...

S01-E10 | Welcome 2021 – TUMI’s take on the new year with Daniel Moser

21 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

2020 turned the world upside down. All over the world, mobility activities took place in an astonishing pace and new paths were taken. A few days into...

S01-E09 | Safe cycling as driver for sustainable mobility with James Theom

16 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Supporting innovative pilot projects is one of TUMI’s key pillars of action to strengthen the resilience of urban mobility systems. To tackle the on...

S01-E08 | Road Safety with Viktor Zagreba

30 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Even though city officials and planners have introduced many safety precautions for road safety throughout the last decades – we still see way to ma...

S01-E07 | Cycling Revolution in Bogota with Nicolas Estupinan

12 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Cycling has become more and more popular in many places around the world during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Especially the Colombian capital Bogotá...

S01-E06 | Making cities more equitable through public transport with Dario Hidalgo

29 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dario Hidalgo, Senior Mobility Researcher at the World Resource Institute shares his insights on questions of mobility and justice with us today. He h...

S01-E05 | Keeping women safe with Elsa Marie D'Silva

15 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Today we will have a chat with Elsa Marie D'Silva from India. She created an app that enables women to identify and avoid sexual violence hotspots in ...

S01-E04 | Let's celebrate #AfricanMobilityMonth with Jehan Bhikoo & Kirsten Wilkins

01 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In todays episode we will have a look at the ongoing African Mobility Month, which is a campaign to promote sustainable mobility in African cites. The...

S01-E03 | How WomenMobilizeWomen in the transport sector with Laura Ballesteros

17 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In May 2018 TUMI organized the first all-female conference “WomenMobilizeWomen” (WMW). In 2019 TUMI published the first “Remarkable Women in Tra...

S01-E02 | Covid-19 – Fighting Corona in Transport with Emmanuel John

02 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Many transport operators witness sharp drops in demand, with negative financial impact. Governments need to bailout public transport operators and cre...

S01-E01 | Sustainable Mobility at the Heart of a Green Recovery with Dr. Jörn Richert

19 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The coronavirus crisis is shaking the whole world, with devastating consequences around the globe. In this tremendously difficult situation, we are al...

Teaser

15 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to TTT – the Talking Transport Transformation Podcast: We are TUMI – the Transformative Urban Mobility Initiative. Join us on a trip aroun...