Source: Amazon.com
We'd like to thank David Roberts of Grist for posting on two transportation books that blew his mind:
Tom Vanderbilt's: Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us), which looks at human behavior and how it affects traffic, safety, and all those accidents in parking lots.
William Mitchell, Christopher Borroni-Bird, and Lawrence Burns' ("three brilliant supergeeks, two from GM’s advanced auto division; one from MIT's Smart Cities program"): Reinventing the Automobile: Personal Urban Mobility for the 21st Century, which discusses the need to transform the DNA of the automobile and our automobile culture.
While we disagree with Grist and think that the transportation genre is the most exciting in the world, we agree that you should check these out!