Michael Replogle

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Michael Replogle
Transportation Director
Living Cities Program
Washington, DC Office
Work
Michael Replogle manages Environmental Defense's initiatives to link transportation, land use, and natural resource plans and programs to enhance public health, equity and environmental quality. He is an expert on federal transportation law and policy, transportation impact analysis, and strategies to reduce traffic and pollution through incentives, smart growth, marketing and improved accountability. He works with federal and state agencies, Congress, local officials, business and activists to promote reform. He has worked extensively in metropolitan Washington/Baltimore, New York, Atlanta, Denver, Portland, Oregon and other regions. His work in Atlanta helped redirect $300 million from sprawl-inducing roads to transit and safety projects.
Background
M.S.E., B.S.E. cum laude, Civil and Urban Engineering, and B.A. cum laude Sociology, all from the University of Pennsylvania.
As a civil engineer and transportation modeling expert, he has served as an expert witness in several major environmental and transportation law cases. He conceived and helped win a 50% Maryland tax credit for employer-provided transit and cash-in-lieu-of-parking benefits. He produced three award-winning television ads encouraging employees to ask their employer for these benefits.
Treasurer (1990-present) and a co-founder of Clean Air and Transportation, which educates the public about how transportation choices affect the environment. Co-founder and president (1984-present) of the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy, which promotes sustainable transportation reforms in developing and newly industrialized economies. Author of numerous reports and articles on transportation strategies in Europe, Asia and the United States.
Consultant, U.S. Federal Highway Administration and the World Bank on non-motorized transportation, planning methods, and sustainable transportation strategies (1992); transportation coordinator, Montgomery County (MD) Planning Department (1983-1992); transportation research associate, Public Technology, Inc., technical arm of US National League of Cities, Washington, DC (1979-1982).