Michael Horodniceanu
Michael Horodniceanu | |
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| Born | August 4, 1944 Bucharest, Romania |
| Nationality | Romanian American |
| Occupation | Professor |
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Michael Horodniceanu (born Mihai Horodniceanu; August 4, 1944) is a Romanian American engineer and the former traffic commissioner of New York City. He was also the president of MTA Capital Construction.[1]
Horodniceanu was born in Bucharest, Romania, and emigrated to Israel at age 16. He served in the military there and graduated from Technion.
Horodniceanu has a BCE from the Israel Institute of Technology; a B.A. from SUNY Albany; a Masters of Public Affairs from the University of Cincinnati; and a Ph.D. in Transportation, Planning and Engineering from Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-POLY).[1]
In 1970 he came to the U.S. with his family.[2] He founded the Urbitran Group in 1973,[3] being CEO from 1980 to 1986 and 1990 to 2008. From 1986 to 1990 he was traffic commissioner in New York City, where he oversaw $18 billion for "Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s mega projects".[4] He taught transportation planning, highway design, traffic engineering, transportation financing, and system safety as a full-time professor in both the undergraduate and graduate schools of Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-POLY) and Manhattan College. He is a former engineer-in-chief of the MTA.[4][5][6]
References
- ^ a b MTA biographical information
- ^ Jose, Katharine (November 1, 2011). "Behind the scenes, M.T.A. engineer-in-chief Mike Horodniceanu builds a new transit system, as long as Joe Lhota can bring in the money". Capital New York. Retrieved June 10, 2015. [dead link]
- ^ Urbitran Group [dead link]
- ^ a b "Michael Horodniceanu « Honest Buildings Real Estate Innovations Summit". Honestbuildingssummit.com. Archived from the original on June 10, 2015. Retrieved June 10, 2015.
- ^ "Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Capital Construction Projects: An update from Dr. Michael Horodniceanu, President, MTA Capital Construction Company | NYU Wagner". Wagner.nyu.edu. October 25, 2011. Retrieved June 10, 2015. [dead link]
- ^ "Building New York: A Conversation With Michael Horodniceanu | Arts Initiative Columbia University". Artsinitiative.columbia.edu. February 25, 2014. Retrieved June 10, 2015. [dead link]
- 1944 births
- 20th-century American businesspeople
- 20th-century American engineers
- 21st-century American businesspeople
- 21st-century American engineers
- American people of Romanian-Jewish descent
- Businesspeople from New York City
- Engineers from New York (state)
- Israeli emigrants to the United States
- Living people
- Manhattan College faculty
- Metropolitan Transportation Authority
- Polytechnic Institute of New York University alumni
- Polytechnic Institute of New York University faculty
- Romanian emigrants to Israel
- Romanian emigrants to the United States
- Romanian people of Israeli descent