Sam Schwartz, A TYLin Company, is now a part of TYLin. 

Along with TYLin's extant Land Development and Mobility Systems offerings, our team now forms the core of TYLin’s City Solutions practice— a whole-systems, end-to-end suite of advisory services for creating and adapting urban environments for the future, ultimately making our metropolitan areas more accessible, smarter, safer, more resilient, more equitable, and more attractive to people and businesses.

TYLin is a global, multi-disciplinary engineering and planning services firm recognized for solving some of the most significant infrastructure challenges of our time. Founded in 1954, the company has 124 offices (86 in the Americas) and provides services in architecture, construction engineering and inspection, construction and program management, design, mechanical and electrical engineering, and transportation and environmental planning, among others. As TYLin, we are now able to offer you the expertise of over 5,000 people, globally, in a broad range of consulting, engineering, and construction services, along with associated disciplines.

Since Samuel I. Schwartz founded his namesake firm in 1995, our success has been built on three pillars: talented industry experts; creative yet practical project approaches; and everyday ingenuity. Becoming TYLin will only serve to strengthen these tenets.

Sam Schwartz
Samuel I. Schwartz, PE
Founder of Sam Schwartz

Popularly known as "Gridlock Sam," thanks to his coining of the term, Mr. Schwartz founded Sam Schwartz Consulting in 1995. Previously, Mr. Schwartz was New York City’s Traffic Commissioner and Chief Engineer of the Department of Transportation. He started his transportation career in the late 1960’s as a NYC cabbie and joined the Traffic Department as a junior engineer in 1971.

Mr. Schwartz was the Inaugural Ted Kheel Fellow of Roosevelt House at Hunter College and the Municipal Engineers of the City of New York 2019 Industry Leader. He has been an adjunct professor at Cooper Union, Long Island University, and Brooklyn College. He has authored a number of books, most recently the critically-acclaimed “No One At the Wheel: Driverless Cars and the Road of the Future.”

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We recognize that our ongoing success is driven by our dedicated and highly valued staff. In turn, we strive to provide challenging and rewarding work, attractive benefits, and an exceptional workplace environment where people can collaborate, connect, and maximize personal and professional career growth. We are committed to creating a workplace that allows our dedicated professionals to reach their full potential in an atmosphere that is inclusive, supportive, and encourages creativity. 

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