# Jarrett Walker
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jarrett walker (born 1962) is a transit consultant and native of Portland, Oregon. His Houston bus redesign was covered in the media, and he has worked in cities in North America and Oceania.
Walker frames discussions about public transportation in terms of geometry,, including the ridership coverage tradeoff saying that geometry gives a kind of certainty about decision-making and predictions.
Jarrett Walker on How To Think About Public Transport
Jarrett Walker has been designing bus networks for thirty years. From his consulting practice in Portland, Oregon, he’s built a specialism in helping cash-strapped local authorities optimise their networks through his business Jarrett Walker Associates.
And you can’t optimise if you don’t know what…
Human Transit w/ Jarrett Walker
In this episode, I connect with Jarrett Walker, author of Human Transit, revised edition. This book, aimed at a nontechnical reader, explores the challenging questions that you must think about when planning or advocating for public transit in your community. We discuss what aspects of the public t…
How is public transit doing in the US?
In this episode, I’m joined by consultant Jarrett Walker to take the pulse of US transit in a world of empty downtown office towers, surging weekend ridership, and the tech elite’s dream of transit without strangers. We unpack the myths that plague buses, reveal why Canada’s transit abundance shoul…
Cities in Chaos, Connection in Crisis
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This week, I’ve been reflecting on the themes of my last few essays — along with a pile of research that’s been oddly in sync. Transit planning. Neuroscience. Happiness studies. Complexity theory. Strange mix, but it keeps pointing to the same thing: cities aren’t just struggling…
Public Transit Will Collapse in a Year. Should We Save It?
By the end of 2026, many U.S. cities could see large parts of their public transit systems crumble under a lack of federal funding and a development pattern that was never designed to support it. In this episode, Chuck Marohn and Abby Newsham explore why transit can’t survive as a charity and how l…
Portland-based transportation consultant on the current state of public transport in Oregon cities
As commuters are seeing continuous hikes on gas prices in Oregon and across the nation, some are forced to reevaluate their commuting habits. Public transportation could currently be a vital alternative to commuters in Oregon and the Northwest as a whole. But, how well are public transportation sys…
Why are you still stuck in traffic...
In this episode, transit expert Jarrett Walker discusses the history, challenges, and future of public transportation in the US, including issues like congestion, funding, and technological innovation.Let me knoiw what you think. Subscribe. #transportation #cars #america #roads #trains #bus #podcast
The Transit Tradeoff No City Can Escape
Putting a route near every community sounds fair until the buses only arrive once an hour. Jarrett Walker, author of Human Transit and principal of the firm helping Des Moines rethink its bus network, explains why cities cannot maximize frequency, coverage, and affordability at the same time. In De…
Human Transit with Jarrett Walker
Jarrett Walker's career has been dedicated to improving the quality of public transit in the United States and beyond. A specialist in bus network design, he has led transit planning projects around North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand for decades. He is also the author of the book Hum…
Human Transit with Jarrett Walker
Jarrett Walker's career has been dedicated to improving the quality of public transit in the United States and beyond. A specialist in bus network design, he has led transit planning projects around North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand for decades. He is also the author of the book Hum…
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