Notes Design

Americans spend almost as much time driving as they do eating. In his new book, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (And What it Says About Us), Tom Vanderbilt, takes all of the geeky and arcane transportation studies so easily bandied about at Uni -- induced demand, shared space, modal bias, you name it - and filters it though road rage and the psychology of traffic jams to explain why we drive the way we do and what our driving habits reveal about us.

It's a book that deepens our understanding of car culture, transportation policy and human psychology. Maybe next he'll tackle the NYC Subway and why it takes an hour to get home to Brooklyn in the evening and only 30 minutes to get into the city in the morning.

Via Design Observer