Who We Are

For more than 25 years, Sam Schwartz has been known as the transportation firm that solves the industry’s most challenging problems by balancing exemplary technical skills with exceptional creative approaches—a combination that sets our work apart.  

From our roots as a New York City traffic engineering consultancy, we have grown to a national firm with 8 offices and a team of professionals across disciplines including transportation and environmental planning, transit, civil engineering, and community engagement. 

Sam Schwartz is a member of a global alliance of consulting and engineering firms, led by TYLin, spanning the building, transportation, and water sectors. The unified brand connects clients more effectively with TYLin’s multi-disciplinary global engineering resources to solve infrastructure challenges with innovative and technically advanced solutions at the regional and local levels.

Founded in 1954, TYLin is a global engineering firm focused on delivering comprehensive advanced mobility infrastructure, smart buildings, and sustainable water solutions. TYLin is recognized for solving the most important challenges for public and private clients through collaboration with 3,000+ professionals across 50+ offices in the Americas, Europe, and Asia Pacific.

Making the Journey Better

At Sam Schwartz, making the journey better guides everything we do.  

From strategic planning to Vision Zero to new mobility, our team of planners and engineers are thought leaders who are pushing their professions forward. Our clients trust us to work collaboratively, think creatively, plan thoughtfully, and communicate persuasively.  We are passionate about the work we do, and our projects improve the lives of the people and communities we serve. 

Making the journey better means making our transit systems more equitable, our streets safer, our infrastructure more resilient, and our development sustainable. It means making transportation choices easy to understand and minimizing the disruption of construction. It means setting the vision for the way we move and developing the strategies to make it happen. 

Making the journey better starts with an intelligent conversation. For our clients, this means engaging with teams of planning and engineering professionals who are trained to listen, understand, and analyze, and who have the expertise to transform challenges into transformational results. For the communities we serve, this means thoughtful engagement about their priorities, perspectives, and where they want to go. For our staff, this means pursuing continued learning and growth. 

Ready to join us? Let’s make the journey better, together. 

Valuing Inclusion, Belonging, and Equity (VIBE)

Meaningful change is needed to make our workplaces and our industry more welcoming and just. VIBE is Sam Schwartz’s initiative focused on infusing principles of inclusion, belonging, and equity into everything we do. This encompasses our firm culture, employment and advancement opportunities, training, communications, and operations, as well as our work for clients. Learn more here.

Company History

After nearly 20 years with the New York City Department of Transportation (NYCDOT) and a successful term as the NYCDOT’s Chief Engineer/First Deputy Commissioner, Sam Schwartz started the Sam Schwartz Company in the summer of 1995 with a staff of two.

Since then, the company has grown to a staff of over 140 professional engineers, planners, and designers in offices throughout the country. We invite you to meet our leadership team.

Through our technical expertise, creative visioning, and consensus-building, Sam Schwartz strives to balance the needs and improve the quality of life for all users, including drivers, pedestrians, transit riders, and cyclists.

We are driven by Ingenuity, Accessibility, and Integrity.

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