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Samuel Schwartz

CEO
Sam Schwartz Pedestrian Traffic Management Inc.
New York, NY

Sam Schwartz is CEO of Sam Schwartz Pedestrian Traffic Management LLC. He also founded Sam Schwartz Engineering. He wrote a column on transportation for The New York Daily News from 1990 to 2022. Previously Mr. Schwartz was New York City’s Traffic Commissioner. aHe 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, often referred to by his nom de plume “Gridlock Sam,” released the word “Gridlock” into the lexicon during the 1980 NYC Transit strike.
Mr. Schwartz’s most recent books, No One at the Wheel: Driverless Cars and the Road of the Future (2018) and Street Smart: The Rise of Cities and The Fall of Cars (2015) lay out a recipe for cities faced with rapid changes in modes, automation, demographic shifts and travelers’ preferences.

Mr. Schwartz is currently the Ted Kheel Fellow at Roosevelt House, Hunter College. He is on the board of the Regional Plan Association (RPA).
He obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in Physics at Brooklyn College and received a Master of Science degree in Civil Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a licensed Professional Engineer.

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