Senior Principal
Utrecht, NL

Evan Costagliola leads Cityfi's European office based in Utrecht, NL and has dedicated his career to building equitable, mobile, healthy, and resilient cities. He has over fifteen years of experience in multimodal transportation policy, planning, and concept design, and he is considered a national thought leader in emerging transportation technology policy, regulation, and pilot delivery. Evan is adept at developing and delivering on mobility strategies and offers expertise in shared mobility, mobility management, mobility hubs, curb management, and right-of-way management.

Prior to joining Cityfi, Evan cut his teeth at Nelson\Nygaard, leading complex urban mobility projects across the country. Evan managed Nelson\Nygaard's Emerging Mobility Practice and the firm's Seattle office, all while delivering projects related to new mobility policy, strategy, and partnerships, curb management, mobility hub planning, design, and implementation, transportation electrification, innovative TDM, trip reduction, and mode shift strategies, and mobility data.

Evan has also worked at the forefront of new mobility. Evan served as Lime’s global director of transportation partnerships, coordinating GovTech initiatives with the product team and leading pilot partnerships, transit integration, and data policy for the company. Before Lime, Evan built one of the nation’s first new mobility programs at the Seattle Department of Transportation, where he led several groundbreaking initiatives including the New Mobility Playbook (lead author), the nation’s first dockless bike share and curbside electric vehicle charging permitting programs, a shared mobility hub program, the city’s automated mobility policy framework, and citywide TNC management policy.

Education

  • University of California, Los Angeles
    Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Geography

  • University of Southern California
    MA Planning

Contact: evan@cityfi.co

1. What originally drew you to cities? 

My path to city-making, urban planning, and mobility stems from my academic background in urban, social, and cultural geography. Books like City of Quartz by Davis, Sidewalk by Duneier, and The Long Emergency by Kunstler framed my views on place, sustainability, justice, and inclusion. Urban mobility shapes the form of and participation in cities, so I started my career making places more walkable and bikeable. The rest is history!

 2. What is your favorite city?

There is so much to love about Los Angeles. It’s where I was born and raised, and it offers so much. While it has its faults, it’s tough to find a more complex, diverse, and culturally rich city than Los Angeles.

3. When do you feel happiest in your city/environment?

Definitely when I am experiencing, what I call, the mix. Being “in the mix” is how I characterize feeling the pulse of a city, a district, or a street corner. This includes people-watching in a busy area, listening to live music in a public place, or even sitting on a park bench to take in a city’s natural beauty. Just being part of the mix makes me happy.