Jacob Ward (E 2020)
(he/him)
About
Jacob “Jake” Ward is the Program Manager for Operations and Analysis, the Acting Director for Energy-Efficiency Mobility Systems, and the Director for sustainable transportation partnerships in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Vehicle Technologies Office. He is also Adjunct Faculty at Rochester Institute of Technology and Penn State’s New Kensington campus. He holds a joint PhD in Engineering and Public Policy and Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, where his research focused on the energy and environmental impacts of shared, automated, and electrified mobility systems. Ward successfully defended his dissertation, “The Energy and Environmental Effects of New and Future Mobility: Econometric and Simulation Analysis of Ridesourcing Services Uber and Lyft,” in 2020.
First Author Publications during PhD
Ward, J.W., Michalek, J.J., & Samaras, C. (2021). Air pollution, greenhouse gas, and traffic externality benefits and costs of shifting private vehicle travel to ridesourcing services. Environmental Science & Technology, 55(19), 13174–13185. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c01641
Ward, J.W., Michalek, J.J., Samaras, C., Azevedo, I.L., Henao, A., Rames, C., & Wenzel, T. (2021). The impact of uber and lyft on vehicle ownership, fuel economy, and transit across U.S. cities. IScience, 24(1), 101933. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2020.101933
Ward, J.W., Michalek, J.J., Azevedo, I.L., Samaras, C., & Ferreira, P. (2019). Effects of on-demand ridesourcing on vehicle ownership, fuel consumption, vehicle miles traveled, and emissions per capita in U.S. states. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 108, 289–301. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2019.07.026