![]() Whether it’s Uber, bikes, car share, public transit - for Schwartz, the future of transportation is multimodal, and smartphone technologies allow this to become reality. “It’s the same thing for your generation.” “It’s electricity, it’s water, it’s all the things that you get by turning on a button, flipping a switch, hitting an app on your phone,” Schwartz explained. What is important now for Schwartz is to preserve this trend, this exodus from autonomous vehicles to “mobility as a service.” A silent revolution,” Schwartz said, pointing to the millennials in the audience and congratulating them for doing on their own what he said he’s spent his career trying to achieve. “A lot of people in this room are making the lifestyle that created the revolution that nobody can take credit for. This fall is largely seen to be happening because of millennials, who drive 20 to 25 percent less than their predecessors, Schwartz said. Schwartz opened his talk with the statistics that are at the origin of his book: Since 2004, the amount of miles driven by car are steadily decreasing. Harvey Miller, director of CURA and host of the conference, described him as an “expert of getting people out of their cars and into other forms of transportation.” Schwartz went from a New York taxi driver to found and CEO of Sam Schwartz Engineering. ![]() He’s been called many things, from an “urban alchemist,” to a “transportation guru,” and has been most famously nicknamed “Gridlock Sam.” But his book “Street Smart: The Rise of Cities And The Fall Of Cars,” which he discussed Tuesday night, is published under the name Samuel I. The man who coined the word “gridlock” during the 1980 New York City transit strike was invited by Ohio State’s Center for Urban and Regional Analysis on Tuesday night to present his vision of the city of the future. ![]() Sam Schwartz, author and urban planning professional, speaks at an event hosted by Ohio State’s Center for Urban and Regional Analysis on Sept.
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