Podcasts have become a regular component of METRANS' media offerings, but have primarily included the voices and insights of practitioners, professors, and researchers. As an effort to incorporate a more diverse selection of viewpoints, METRANS students explain METRANS transportation research in their own words. Three shows have been produced so far, with the intention of becoming a regular feature on the METRANS website as time goes on. The first podcast featured 2015 METRANS Student of the Year Arnold Valdez as a he analyzed Professor Lisa Schweitzer's recent work, "Planning and Social Media: A Case Study of Transit Stigma and Twitter." The study focused on figuring out why public transit services have been stigmatized, and how organizations can improve their perception. Lynn Feng, a second year master's student at the Price School, sat in for the second recording, in which they highlighted Professor Geraldine Knatz' study on the travel behavior of millennials and how changes in dynamics will alter the face of transportation. Finally, the METRANS Student Podcasts host, Rodd Amos, brought in second-year Master's student Arpita Sharma who talked about Los Angeles Department of Transportation General Manager Seleta Reynolds' Great Streets Initiative and monitor its success.

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Arpita Sharma