Shruti Vaidyanathan oversees research on vehicle efficiency and system-wide transportation efficiency. She has 10 years’ experience in transportation efficiency issues and her work has most recently focused on passenger and freight mobility best practices at the state and local levels and the role of emerging mobility options and autonomous vehicles in sustainable urban transportation systems.

Shruti holds a master of science in public policy and management from the Heinz College at Carnegie Mellon University and a bachelor of arts in economics and environmental studies from Grinnell College. She joined ACEEE in 2007.