Fast Forward

The Port of Long Beach is one of the most important gateways for international trade in the United States. In 2025, it handled nearly 10 million shipping containers - roughly 27,000 twenty-foot equivalent units every single day. Together with the neighboring Port of Los Angeles, it accounts for roughly a third of all containerized imports entering the country. What's remarkable is that the Port of Long Beach has managed to dramatically reduce pollution even as its operations have grown. Since 2005, diesel particulate emissions have fallen by more than 90%, while cargo volumes have increased by roughly 20%. On this episode, host Nick Perloff-Giles is joined by Noel Hacegaba, CEO at the Port of Long Beach, to discuss how they've made that happen, and what's in store for the future of the port.

Decarbonizing aviation has proven to be tougher than initially anticipated - but what if that's because hopes have been set too high? In this episode, host Nick Perloff-Giles sits down with Kevin Noertker, CEO and co-founder of Ampaire, an aviation company retrofitting existing planes with hybrid engines that cut costs by 50-70% while significantly reducing emissions, to talk about the policy, technological, and mechanical constraints to transforming flying.

The curb is under more demand than ever - cyclists need a place to park, vehicles need a place to charge, and AVs suddenly need a place to stop. But the curbs we have are far from the curbs we need: so how do we get there? On this episode, host Nick Perloff-Giles sits down with Gene Oh of Tranzito, an urban mobility and smart city operator that specializes in curbside management, secure bike parking, and multimodal transportation infrastructure, to discuss the opportunities for curbs ahead, and the challenges that lie in between.

With less than 2 months until CoMotion LA 2026, we look back at some of the new mobility challenge winners from the last decade to catch up on their progress and identify strategies to make the perfect pitch.

Nearly 40 million people in the United States live in a multifamily building, where EV charging access has to be shared. But the majority of both funding and infrastructure devoted to charging is still either in the roadway or in single family homes. What's an apartment-dweller to do? Enter SWTCH Energy, which rapidly scales the EV charging network in multifamily and commercial buildings; host Nick Perloff-Giles sat down with Jeremy Cohen, Head of Real Estate Partnerships, to talk about the challenges of compliance, the future of charging, and what's in store for the market more broadly. Click here to learn more about CoMotion LA and get a 10% discount on tickets: https://events.bizzabo.com/845187?promo=FASTFORWARD

While Waymo and other autonomous players continue to expand, they're running into a much older problem: how to manager their growing fleets. That's the slow, complicated, unsexy part of running mobility services that involves cleaning, charging, and moving vehicles around to where they need to be, and that's the business Bojan Jukic, CEO of Wunder Mobility, is in. On this episode, he and host Nick Perloff-Giles talk about how the micromobility revolution predicted autonomy, what Europe is doing well, and what the future holds for fleet management.

Battery fires are a nagging (and growing) problem in New York City: while they've fueled the e-mobility-enabled rise of delivery apps like Doordash, they often exist in black market, underregulated spaces, where fires are common. But what if you disintermediated the system, by offering shared batteries swappable at a moment's notice? That's the model of PopWheels. Fast Forward host Nick Perloff-Giles sat down with co-founder David Hammer to discuss the company's success in moving towards a shared, safer battery future.

CoMotion has been in downtown Los Angeles for 10 years - in that time, self-driving cars have filled the roads, delivery robots crawl the sidewalks, and slowly but surely, a subway network is emerging. In this special retrospective conversation, founder and chief curator John Rossant sits down with former Mayor of Los Angeles and Ambassador to India Eric Garcetti for a discussion on what's changed in the last decade in the city, and what lies ahead.

On this episode, CoMotion founder and CEO John Rossant sits down with Michael Mueller of TASARU Mobility Investments, a Saudi Arabian fund looking at the future of mobility in the Gulf and beyond. They discuss current bottlenecks for new mobility deployment, what's specific about the regional context of Saudi Arabia, and how the country and fund are adapting strategies from around the world to innovate.

Imagine 7 super bowls in your city, every day, for sixteen days. That's what LA is poised to deal with when the Olympics arrive in 2028. How is the World Cup helping them prepare? On this special miniseries episode of the Fast Forward podcast, host Nick Perloff-Giles sits down with experts, advocates, and researchers Alissa Walker, Eli Lipmen, and Juan Matute to discuss everything that's gone right (and wrong) with the transportation planning of the World Cup, and everything to come for the Olympics.