He was born in Ilıca, Erzurum in 1954. He graduated from Istanbul Technical University, Faculty of Civil Engineering. He worked in various departments of the Ministry of Public Works for about 4 years. He started to work at Yıldız Technical University as an assistant in 1979 and completed his doctorate on Transportation Engineering at the Faculty of Civil Engineering in 1988. In 1994, he was given the title of Associate Professor by the Interuniversity Board, and in 2000 he was appointed to the Professorship in the Department of Transportation. In 1994-1999, he undertook the duties of Transportation Consultant, Head of Transportation Department and a member of the board of directors of various municipal companies during the time of President Recep Tayyip ERDOĞAN's Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Mayorship. He was elected as AK Party Deputy from Erzurum in 2002 and served as Deputy Chairman of Public Works, Reconstruction, Transport and Tourism Commission, Member of Turkish delegation in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Turkey-Austria Inter-Parliamentary Friendship Group Chairman and AK Party MKYK Member. Between 2008 and 2015, he broke new ground at Bahçeşehir University and became the Founding President of the master's program for municipalities and Turkey's first Transportation Engineering undergraduate program. In 2015, he worked as a Professor at the Faculty of Engineering at Istanbul Commerce University. In addition, between 2007 and 2015, he served as the advisory of President of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality and the consultant of many central units. He was re-elected as AK Party Erzurum Deputy in the General Elections of November 1, 2015. During this period, he has a very important role in Erzurum being a candidate for the 2026 Winter Olympics. In addition, he has personally followed all the processes from the preparation of the Rail System Project, which will be a solution to Erzurum's transportation problem, to its approval by the Council of Ministers. It has been instrumental in the implementation of many projects in order to prevent unemployment, which is the biggest problem of the region, and the resulting migration. An example of this is the Turkcell Call Center, which opened its services in Erzurum for the first time in 2005, apart from the three big cities. Currently, approximately 5,000 people are working in this sector. Some of the projects he is the coordinator of: Transportation Master Plan Strategy, Erzurum Great Municipality Regional Development Plan, DAB Tourism Oriented Regional Development Project and Winter Tourism and Thermal Tourism Development Agreement between Turkey and Austria. He also gave lectures on local governments in almost every province of Turkey at the AK Party Political Academy. He has Legislation Proposal and Realized Regional Development Projects and many Transportation - Traffic projects. Ilıcalı, who served as AK Party Erzurum Deputy until 2018, has been the Head of Istanbul Commerce University Transportation Systems Application and Research Center since 2018. In addition, he served as the Chairman of the Istanbul Public Transportation Science Board, which was established by the Governorship of Istanbul in order to operate the urban transportation service in accordance with the controlled social life rules, together with the Covid-19 pandemic that affected the whole world. He has many national and international publications.