Samuel I. Schwartz, PE

New York, NY

Mr. Schwartz is Founder of Sam Schwartz Consulting, LLC. He also writes a column on traffic for The New York Daily News. Previously Mr. Schwartz was New York City’s Traffic Commissioner and was the Chief Engineer of the NYC Department of Transportation. He started his transportation career in the late 1960’s as a NYC cabbie and joined the Traffic Department, as a junior engineer, in 1971.

Mr. Schwartz was the Inaugural Ted Kheel Fellow at Roosevelt House at Hunter College. He has been an adjunct professor at Cooper Union, Long Island University, and Brooklyn College. He has authored a number of books, most recently the critically-acclaimed “No One At the Wheel: Driverless Cars and the Road of the Future.” He is the Municipal Engineers of the City of New York 2019 Industry Leader.

Popularly known as “Gridlock Sam,” thanks to his coining of the term, he can be found online at gridlocksam.com.

Recent Publications:

No One at the Wheel: Driverless Cars and the Road of the Future

Street Smart: The Rise of Cities and the Fall of Cars

Roadways: How Did We Get Here?

Educated Millennial Population Growth in Cities and Its Impact on Transportation

Founder

Expertise

• Congestion Pricing

• Shared Mobility

• Autonomous Vehicles

• Creative Problem Solving