Couverture de Olmsted Ep. 3 - Michael Sussman

Olmsted Ep. 3 - Michael Sussman

Olmsted Ep. 3 - Michael Sussman

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And here’s ep #3  featuring Michael Sussman, CEO of Strategic Rail Finance and founder of the non-profit On Track North America.  So, yeah, we walk trains.  But also urban freight rail, collaboration versus competition, labor versus automation, and industrial policy.

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Notes:

  • Picnic test
  • Why we don’t have urban freight anymore 
  • Industry moving out of the cities
  • Externalities that trucks have to (not) pay vs what freight rail has to pay
  • He's not anti truck
  • Railroads and trucks can go side by side 
  • I unload my pet peeves about urban trucks
  • Industrial policy  
  • EVs and their problems  
  • Using urban rail lines for both freight and passenger 
  • The recent (almost) labor strike on the freight rails 
  • Some men and women just like driving heavy machinary 
  • Humans vs machine driving trains
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