Michael Horodniceanu

Michael Horodniceanu is president of MTA Capital Construction. He was born in Romania, and emigrated to Israel at age 16. He served in the military there and graduated Technion. In 1970 he came to the U.S. with his family. He founded the Urbitran Group in 1973, being CEO from 1980-1986 and 1990-2008. From 1986-1990 he was traffic commissioner in New York City. 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 earned a Ph.D. in Transportation Planning & Engineering from Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-POLY). He is a former engineer-in-chief of the MTA.