Calling to mind Malcolm Gladwell’s popular non-fiction books (The Tipping Point, Outliers, Blink), Tom Vanderbilt delves into human behavior, engineering principles, and transportation studies to deliver an interesting analysis of how we move from place to place. He includes a brief history, compares traffic around the world, and comments on the often-unintended consequences of attempts to improve safety on the road.
A Library Journal review begins, “If only all traffic proceeded with the ease and flow it does here with Vanderbilt in the driver's seat.” I liked it, too!
Traffic is available in print at the SPL and on CD through interlibrary loan.
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