Tom Vanderbilt is author of Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do. Follow him on Twitter.

Advertisement

Recently by Tom Vanderbilt

Showing 1–20 of 71
Can Eliminating Parking Spots Make Cities More Efficient?

Tom Vanderbilt

Sept 18, 2015 11:47 AM
How Hold Music Manipulates Your Mood

Tom Vanderbilt

Sept 08, 2014 11:30 PM
Is It Possible to Make an Unpickable Lock?

Tom Vanderbilt

March 13, 2013 12:00 AM
The Strange Things That Happen at a Lock-picking Convention

Tom Vanderbilt

March 12, 2013 7:19 AM
The American Who Shocked Victorian England by Picking the World’s Strongest Lock

Tom Vanderbilt

March 11, 2013 12:00 AM
Why D.C., of All Places, Has the Best Bike Sharing in the United States

Tom Vanderbilt

Jan 07, 2013 5:45 AM
The Brilliant Redesign of the Soda Can Tab

Tom Vanderbilt

Sept 24, 2012 3:44 AM
Advertisement
The Single Most Important Object in the Global Economy

Tom Vanderbilt

Aug 14, 2012 11:45 AM
A Brief History of the Telephone, From Alexander Graham Bell to the iPhone

Tom Vanderbilt

May 15, 2012 6:15 AM
How I Snuck Into a Pantone Color Forecasting Meeting—and What I Learned

Tom Vanderbilt

April 27, 2012 6:33 AM
How America Can Start Walking Again

Tom Vanderbilt

April 13, 2012 6:30 AM
How Pedestrian-Friendly Is Your Neighborhood? Ask Walk Score.

Tom Vanderbilt

April 12, 2012 6:15 AM
What Scientists Know About the Way We Walk

Tom Vanderbilt

April 11, 2012 6:45 AM
Advertisement
The Crisis in American Walking: We Don’t

Tom Vanderbilt

April 10, 2012 6:28 AM
Can Parking Lots Be Great?

Tom Vanderbilt

March 31, 2012 12:10 AM
What’s the Best Way To Get Users To Embrace Mass Transit?

Tom Vanderbilt

Jan 19, 2012 1:48 PM
Highways Work Best When You Force Cars To Crawl Along at 55 MPH

Tom Vanderbilt

Oct 12, 2011 3:19 PM
The diverging diamond interchange: A new kind of intersection eliminates dangerous, time-wasting left turns completely.

Tom Vanderbilt

July 31, 2011 11:47 PM
Carmageddon #flightvsbike challenge: How a team of cyclists beat a Jet Blue flight from Burbank to Long Beach.

Tom Vanderbilt

July 16, 2011 8:01 PM
Carmegeddon: Can Los Angeles cyclists beat a plane from Burbank to Long Beach? How my idle tweet spawned an epic transportation showdown.

Tom Vanderbilt

July 15, 2011 5:26 PM
Advertisement
Advertisement