Transportation Technology Podcasts

Ludicrous Feed | EV Adoption in Australia lets you hear a market change in real time. Its publisher describes a live weekly YouTube stream, and the audio keeps that texture: hosts greet regulars in the chat by name and read comments out mid-story. In Tesla FSD V14 Australia, New Chinese EV Launches and DC Charging News, the hosts describe testing supervised Full Self-Driving around Sydney. On one drive the car tried to steer around cyclists, and one host concedes the system is "babysitting to some degree early on." The same episode turns to a reported fatal Model 3 crash in the US and a plain warning to stay alert. The cost of the live format is that audio listeners hear references to on-screen graphics they cannot see. A recent title, Modern Vehicles with Internet Connectivity and Cybersecurity Risks: How Concerned Should We Be?, leans toward the ground the Cybersecurity page covers.

AvTalk - Aviation Podcast, hosted by Ian Petchenik and Jason Rabinowitz, treats flying as a system to be understood. In And we’re back, they walk through an Air India A320neo on which, for a few seconds, all three hydraulic systems stopped responding. Elsewhere they ask whether a reported rise in one kind of event still holds once you account for more flights. Later comes some regulatory comedy: a pizza box counts as carry-on, they note, while a half-full water cup counts as an evacuation hazard. Goodyear Blimp Chief Pilot Michael Dougherty is a gentler entry. Dougherty explains that the mast trucks matter because "we literally cannot land without them."

Airline Pilot Guy - Aviation Podcast is the long, loose alternative: a panel of aviation hands plus producer Liz Piper sharing graphics. Jackass in Guinea Pig Rescue runs 138 minutes, and its pleasure is practitioners thinking aloud. Puzzling over a crew warned to go around on two approaches, one host offers, "I reckon that there's a database error here." It is a guess, framed as one. These episodes carry no date in the feed, so check how fresh the news is.

Charging sounds like a hardware story until you hear the people building it. The Charge Point Podcast puts the problem bluntly in Episode 47 – When EV Charging Hits the Grid Wall: Inside the INTERFACE Benelux conference: "how do you keep building when the grid says no?"

Some of the most revealing listening comes from professionals talking shop. ITE Talks Transportation pairs ITE with host Bernie Wagenblast. In Evolving Travel Patterns: Insights from the New ITE Trip Generation Manual with Eric Tripi, GHD and Chris Brehmer, Kittleson and Associates, a 24-minute episode, the guests explain how hybrid work has produced two sets of peaks depending on the weekday. One admits that data on how many trips a dog park generates simply hasn't been readily available. It is a rare look at the numbers behind new roads, and a sensible bridge to the Engineering page.

The Transportation Podcast from Traffic Technology International, featuring TTI editor Tom Stone, is livelier. In Podcast 52: Brett Ferrin of Traffic Logix on creating safer streets, Ferrin tells of a customer who put a speed sign outside a sergeant's house after the sergeant's wife complained about speeding. Two weeks of data showed no citable offence. "It's a matter of perception," Ferrin says. In Podcast 55: Why EVs aren’t enough to decarbonize road travel, with Giles Perkins, Perkins argues that cleaning up tailpipes still leaves carbon tied up in street lighting and even grass cutting.

The NFPA Podcast covers fire and life safety broadly, but Flying Cars are Finally Here. Are they Safe? belongs here. Host Angelo Verzoni talks with Rex Alexander, a pilot with about 30 years in the helicopter industry, about vertiports for battery-powered aircraft. Fighting a battery fire, the conversation concludes, means cooling it with water, "copious amounts of it." Whether the circuits will be AC or DC raises questions still being worked through.

Where mobility is heading is the territory of single-guest interviews, and two shows differ in how hard they push. Fast Forward, hosted by Nick Perloff-Giles, is the more searching. China's Networked Mobility Revolution with Bill Russo contrasts digitally native carmakers built on software and direct sales with traditional manufacturers. The episode argues that China "takes not a product excellence approach but a system excellence approach." In Women Changing Cities with Melissa Bruntlett, the Bruntletts' argument that cities serve mobility needs that ignore at least half of users is tested against a fight for cycle share in Kampala.

Inside Transportation is an archive whose latest listed episode dates from 2022, which makes it a time capsule of executive promises. In Ep 43 - Sidewalk Robots with CEO of Serve Robotics, Ali Kashani, Kashani calls level five autonomy sci-fi and says "level four is the holy grail." In Ep 40 - Innovations in Aviation Technology with Justin Lang of Joby Aviation, Lang claims the aircraft is 100 times quieter than a twin-engine helicopter. Hear these as pitches, sponsor reads included. For autonomy more broadly, try the Artificial Intelligence page.

The Automotive Hour, Weekly Podcast of AGCO Automotive Corporation is a call-in show hosted by Louis Altazan, with Brian Terry alongside. The episodes date from 2020 and use filenames for titles, but the fundamentals hold up. 2020-11-14.mp3 separates cranking, "when the starter motor is turning the motor," from starting, and describes the engine computer as a chain of if-then decisions. 2020-09-26.mp3 traces a stalling convertible to sunglasses hung on a mirror over a chafed wire. Expect radio-style appeals for reviews.