Videos

Moderating a March 2024 webinar with transportation agency "chief innovation officers" -- agency officials who are at the heart of efforts to foster collaboration, initiate pilot programs, utilize data, revisit plans, and monitor performance. Hear about their experiences, the obstacles they face, the strategies they have deployed, and the successes they have achieved.

Government agencies and their private partners borrow money for all types of transportation projects, from fixing up subway stations and modernizing seaports to building new bridges and expanding airports. In the face of shifting travel patterns, rising costs, and higher interest rates, transportation agencies and local governments are grappling with a crucial question: Can they continue to borrow billions of dollars for airport, transit, highway, and port improvements? Watch this February 2024 panel moderated by Dr. Plotch.

Interviewed in 2023 by the Gotham Center for New York City History discussing "How the Port Authority Built Metropolitan New York."

Moderating a webinar in 2023 with transit advocates from Chicago, Los Angeles, Minnesota, and New York on overcoming the challenges of depleting COVID funds, rising operating costs, and reduced fare revenues.

Moderating a webinar in 2023 with the former head of the Federal Transit Administration, the transportation secretary for the State of Washington, and Jen Nelles (co-author of Mobilizing the Metropolis).