Michael Replogle is former Deputy Commissioner for Policy at the New York City Department of Transportation and founder, director emeritus, and former president of the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP), promoting sustainable and equitable cities worldwide.  As Principal at Replogle Consulting, he now provides strategic advisory services to transportation stakeholders.

As an expert witness on behalf of 13 youth plaintiffs represented by Our Children’s Trust and Earthjustice, Replogle played a key role developing the pathbreaking June 2024 settlement agreement in which the Hawaii Department of Transportation agreed to rapidly develop a court-supervised plan to cut statewide transportation greenhouse gas emissions 50% by 2030 and 100% by 2045, with annual reporting on progress towards five-year goals.

Replogle advises itselectric, which provides on-street electric vehicle chargers powered by buildings. He is a board member of SmartGo, advancing diverse walkable communities served by healthy, safe, and sustainable transportation.

As New York City’s Deputy Transportation Commissioner from 2015-21, Replogle was responsible for long range strategy and innovation. His Vision Zero work cut pedestrian deaths by 40%. His decentralized, scalable Open Restaurants program design repurposed 10,000 parking spaces during COVID, saving 100,000 restaurant industry jobs and reviving city street life. He guided expansion of the CitiBike program from 6,000 to 40,000 shared bikes and developed innovative freight, micro-mobility, carsharing, and electrification initiatives, while overseeing agency efforts to boost bus speeds, cut carbon emissions, advance congestion pricing, and reconstruction of the Port Authority Bus Terminal.

In 2012, as co-founder and chair of the Partnership on Sustainable Low Carbon Transportation (SLOCAT), he won a $175 billion 10-year commitment for more sustainable transport from the 8 largest multilateral development banks with reporting and monitoring.

As Transportation Director for the Environmental Defense Fund from 1991-2009, Replogle managed campaigns to shift investment from roads to transit, walking, cycling, and smart growth, helping cities including New York, Portland (Oregon), Denver, Washington, DC, Atlanta, Mexico City, and Beijing enhance transportation planning and strategy.  He pioneered sustainable transport scenario planning and innovations in transportation modeling as transportation coordinator for Montgomery County, Maryland in the 1980s.

Replogle graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1978 with undergraduate and graduate degrees in civil and urban engineering and sociology. He recently served as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at New York University‚Äôs Wagner Graduate School for Public Service and as a Visiting Professor at the China Academy of Transportation Sciences in Beijing. He has lectured at more than two dozen universities and countless conferences worldwide.