Nikita strengthens AMMA’s project deliverables through graphic design, data visualization, and document formatting that transforms complex technical content into clear, accessible materials. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Urban and Regional Planning (Urban Design emphasis) from Cal Poly Pomona and an Associate Degree in Architecture from Fullerton College. Her planning experience in Southern California includes municipal work with the City of Placentia.

Since joining AMMA Transit Planning in January 2026, Nikita has enhanced the firm’s work product through:

San Bernardino County Transportation Authority (SBCTA)’s ADA Plan — Redesigned diagrams and improved document formatting for clarity and compliance

SBCTA’s Coordinated Plan — Developed graphics supporting regional transportation planning

SBCTA’s Safety Action Plan — Formatted plan and developed FTA Public Transportation Agency Safety Plans (PTASP)-aligned outline structure

Victor Valley (CA) 5310 Project Management Program — Created promotional flyers for federally funding call for projects

Western Riverside County (CA) Non-Emergency Medical Transportation Analysis — Visualized service schedules to identify peak demand and spatial gaps in the non-emergency medical transportation network

Nikita’s proficiency in ArcGIS, Adobe Creative Suite, AutoCAD, Canva and other design tools enables AMMA to produce polished, reader-friendly deliverables that effectively communicate technical findings to diverse audiences.

With two decades of comprehensive experience in transportation operations and planning, Andrea Breault has developed expertise in both the public and private sectors. Over the course of her career, Andrea has worked across a variety of transportation systems. Before joining the AMMA team, she was the Transportation Director of a central Oregon small public transit program. She began her transportation career contributing to the efficient and sustainable management of university shuttle and parking services, and fleet management. Specifically, Andrea served as Transportation Demand Management Supervisor for Princeton University, developing TDM programs to reduce traffic and emissions on campus; and then as Assistant Director of Parking and Transportation Services at Tufts University, where she managed parking operations and shuttle services throughout four campuses in Massachusetts.

Andrea spent six years as Transportation Director for Cascades East Transit (CET) in Bend, Oregon, where she oversaw a fleet of 85 vehicles, a team of 70 employees, and lead the team through the COVID-19 pandemic. Her focus was on improving CET’s demand response program, fixed-route transit, and grant management program. She led Cascades East Transit’s first Transit Master Plan and Mobility Hub Feasibility Study.

During this time, she helped design and implement innovative transit technology that cater to the needs of a wide range of communities, from urban areas to underserved regions. Her work in the public sector has focused on primarily meeting the needs of rural communities throughout Central Oregon, improving the customer experience, and ensuring sustainability through thoughtful planning and operations.

Her expertise is wide-ranging, built up from her experiences operating both private and public transportation services. These include fixed route and demand response services operational assessment and management, implementation of Federal and State requirement, implementation of transit technology, the operation of call center and dispatch facilities, and grant writing, among other related skills.

Recent AMMA projects in California for which Andrea has had lead responsibilities include development of a demand response service integration plan for Ventura County, project management for Coordinated Public Transit-Human Services Transportation Plans in Riverside and San Bernardino Counties, and an assessment of Imperial County Transit’s demand response programs to support its Short Range Transit Plan.

Andrea has a Masters in Urban and Regional Planning from Rutgers University and a Bachelor of Science, Economics from the University of Dayton, Ohio.

With nearly 30 years of experience in transit graphic design, Rick Schuster is uniquely positioned to help transit agencies better communicate with their customers. His graphic design work has been recognized locally and nationally with several design awards, including multiple APTA Adwheel Awards, and an American Graphic Design Award.

Since founding THINK Graphic Design in 2006, Mr. Schuster has improved the customer-facing information for dozens of transit systems around the country, making their service easier for existing and new customers to understand and use. In addition to information design, transit agencies small to large have trusted THINK Graphic Design to create strong visual identities and to market and identify their transit systems.

Mr. Schuster has successfully designed transit system maps for large metro areas such as Mpls/St. Paul, and mid-size systems such as Marin Transit or Rochester, NY, down to smaller systems consisting of just a handful of routes. He also has experience designing hundreds of individual route maps and timetables, rider guide booklets, individual route brochures, wayfinding signage, vehicles, information kiosks and more.

Mr. Schuster earned a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Design, and a Bachelor of Architecture from North Dakota State University.

Ms. Barlow works with AMMA to provide a customer focus to the planning process. Through a combination of market research, community outreach and decades of experience, Ms. Barlow insures the transit services are developed to effectively meet user and potential user needs, and hence to maximize ridership and productivity. Her expertise in market research and communications, combined with her intimate familiarity with transit planning and operations, allow her to offer creative, yet pragmatic recommendations for service development and enhancement.

Ms. Barlow’s role typically involves the use of data from passenger surveys, segmentation research, focus groups, destination data and customer experience audits to identify the service characteristics which will enhance rider satisfaction and maximize utilization of a new or existing service. She has worked with all types of services local and express bus systems, paratransit services, rail systems and rural transportation programs to help them understand their markets and to expand their customer base.

Ms. Barlow holds a Master of Business Administration in Marketing from the University of Arizona and a Bachelors of Science in Advertising from University of Florida.

Mr. Boyle has over 30 years of transit operations planning, consulting, and research experience. Mr. Boyle has worked as project manager on service planning and scheduling, survey analysis, contracting, labor productivity and strategic planning projects throughout the United States. Mr. Boyle also works on a long-term basis with several clients, including Greensboro Transit Authority, Orange County Transportation Authority and Laguna Beach Transit.

Mr. Boyle has analyzed fare structures and developed fare policy recommendations for numerous transit systems.  He has prepared schedules, runcuts and rosters as part of the major service planning studies. Mr. Boyle is the primary author of the new scheduling manual for the transit industry (TCRP Report 135).

Mr. holds a Master Degree in Regional Planning from Cornell University.

Mr. Boyle recently collaborated with AMMA on an Alternatives Analysis for the City of Downey Transit’s DowneyLINK service.

Trillium Solutions, helps transportation agencies use the internet to inform and market to transportation customers. Trillium builds software tools to publish to GTFS data to Google Maps and manage schedule information. Trillium also creates multi-modal transportation information resources like websites and interactive maps.

Mr. Antrim has worked extensively with small and medium sized systems to offer them the same technical passenger information solutions that only large systems once had access to.  Aaron has worked extensively in California, as well as with systems throughout the nation.

Mr. Antrim received his Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from Humboldt State University.

Mr. Antrim recently worked with AMMA on Transit Marketing’s Transit Mobility and Awareness Plan on behalf of Trinity Transit. He was responsible for developing Trinity Transit’s new rider-focused website, www.trinitytransit.com.