This is a running list of transportation related books that I’ve found useful or inspiring. It is not comprehensive, nor necessarily up to date. Links are to Goodreads (transportation tag), or Sacramento Public Library. I’ll let you select your own source. In no particular order:

• Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time, 10th anniversary edition, by Jeff Speck; https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59808028-walkable-city; SacLib
• Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation by Paris Marx; https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58968309-road-to-nowhere; SacLib
• Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town by Charles L. Marohn Jr.; https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54979228-confessions-of-a-recovering-engineer; SacLib
• Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity by Charles L. Marohn Jr.; https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44142112-strong-towns
• The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design by Roman Mars; https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50416393
• Trains, Buses, People: An Opinionated Atlas of US and Canadian Transit by Christof Spieler; https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58324515
• Better Buses, Better Cities: How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit by Steven Higashide; https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44451608
• Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places by Jeff Speck; https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39858765-walkable-city-rules
• Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives by Jarrett Walker; https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13211555
• Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us by Tom Vanderbilt; Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us by Tom Vanderbilt
• Sacramento’s Streetcars by William Burg; https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22439116
• Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives by Melissa Bruntlett; https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55859968-curbing-traffic
• Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality by Melissa Bruntlett; https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39858764-building-the-cycling-city
• There Are No Accidents by Jessie Singer; https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43522046-there-are-no-accidents; SacLib
• Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It, by M. Nolan Gray; https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59613917-arbitrary-lines; SacLib
• Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City by Peter D. Norton; https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20158408
• Why We Drive: The Past, Present, and Future of Automobiles in America by Andy Singer; https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24269681
• Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America, by Angie Schmitt; https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53263726-right-of-way
• The Affordable City: Strategies for Putting Housing Within Reach, by Shane Phillips; https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53263732-the-affordable-city
• The High Cost of Free Parking, by Donald C. Shoup; https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9830974-the-high-cost-of-free-parking
• The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America’s Man-Made Landscape, by James Howard Kunstler; https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125313.The_Geography_of_Nowhere
• Transit Street Design Guide, National Association of City Transportation Officials; https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27837552-transit-street-design-guide
• Urban Street Design Guide, National Association of City Transportation Officials; https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17912386-urban-street-design-guide