Michael A. Replogle

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Michael A. Replogle is Global Policy Director and Founder of the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy, a non-profit corporation that since 1985 has worked with city governments and local advocacy groups worldwide to implement projects that reduce poverty, pollution, and oil dependence. Replogle is also a strategic advisor on transportation to the Environmental Defense Fund, a 500,000 member non-profit organization that links law, science, and economics for environmental results, where he served as transportation director from 1992-2009. As a leading global expert on transportation and the environment, he is a news media resource and has frequently testified before Congress and state legislatures on transportation policy, finance, pricing, and planning. He has been a consultant to the World Bank, Federal Highway Administration, EPA, and governments in across the world. Replogle holds an M.S.E. and undergraduate honors degrees in Civil and Urban Engineering and Sociology, all from the University of Pennsylvania. He an emeritus member of the Transportation Research Board committee on developing countries and serves on US federal advisory committees on Intelligent Transportation Systems and EPA emissions modeling, as well as the Singapore Land Transport Authority Academy Advisory Board. Replogle is the author of dozens of journal articles, several hundred magazine articles, and a book on access to public transportation.