April Event Details

Back in the Office? Traffic Patterns in the Inland Empire

The event is Hybrid, hosted by Omnitrans, Address: 1700 West 5th Street, San Bernardino, CA 92411

The facility is at the corner of Fifth St. and Medical Center Dr. Enter on Medical Center Dr., at the second driveway north of Fifth St.

Attending Online? A Zoom link will be sent before the event.

N.B.: let us know if your plans have changed by April 14, 2023 -- email: ltc@csusb.edu

Event Program

The Issue

As we navigate our way back towards a sense of normalcy in the workplace post-COVID-19, the percentage of people working from home or in a hybrid home/work environment has shifted. For a region such as the I.E., changing patterns in mobility has a significant impact on housing, the employment market, and education. These changes could possibly provide new opportunities for the community or negatively impact mobility in the region. This Dialogue will explore the changes in commuting patterns and mobility in the I.E. since the COVID-19 pandemic, bringing awareness to build upon the opportunities and limit any harm. 

My name is Brenda Reza. I have over nineteen years of business administration, office support, logistics, event planning, business communications, customer relations and Transportation Demand Management. I have a successful track record in time management, attention to detail, marketing, business relationships and project operations with communication skills in both English and Spanish.

I’ve worked in several roles in the IE Commuter project. Starting as an Employer Services Administrative Assistant, to being promoted to Average Vehicle Ridership (AVR) Specialist. About a year later I became IE Commuter, Project Operations working directly with Riverside County Transportation Commission (RCTC) and San Bernardino County Transportation Authority (SBCTA). Currently I serve as Employer Services Representative (ESR).

As an Employer Services Representative, I help about 80 employers with the compliance of South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) Rule 2202 by providing services related to their yearly commuter survey and compliance strategies.

I have hosted marketing workshops that provide employers tools to continue the reduction of emissions by taking an alternate form of transportation. My favorite time of the year is during National Rideshare Week, specifically during our Kickoff Event, where I am a lead coordinator, for this regional event that rally’s up our 300+ employers we serve to promote rideshare awareness. My other roles at IE Commuter have included managing the call center hotline, web inquires and live chat coverage as assistance and resources to employers.

Ginger Koblasz is a Sr. Planner at San Bernardino County Transportation Authority (SBCTA) where she manages the San Bernardino Transportation Analysis Model, the Active Transportation Program, development of a new Long Range Multimodal Transportation Plan, and other analytical and data-driven activities. She started working for SBCTA as a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) intern while working on her bachelor’s degree in Environmental Studies from California State University San Bernardino. She was hired at SBCTA full-time in 2000 and worked her way up to GIS Administrator before moving over to her current Sr. Planner position in 2019. She recently went back to school to earn a Master of Science in Transportation Management at San Jose State University – Mineta Transportation Institute in an effort to better understand the nuances behind the data and how to best use the information to help develop equitable solutions that reshape the future of mobility as it addresses the need to curb climate change.

Sean is a Senior Transportation Planner at Fehr & Peers who specializes in geospatial analysis, data science, and data visualization. Sean has experience in working on systemic and local roadway safety projects, active transportation and safe routes to school projects, first-last mile studies, and local and regional field inventory pursuits. He has an acute skillset in developing data dashboards for public outreach, internal use, data management, and storytelling. He has also conducted research, performed outreach, and provided education programs in the area of goods movement.

Jack Liebersohn is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of California, Irvine. He received his PhD in Financial Economics from MIT in 2018. His research is about real estate and urban economics. Recently, he has studied the short- and long-run effects of remote work on local and national migration and housing markets.

Sean is a senior transportation planner at Fehr & Peers who specializes in geospatial analysis, data science, and data visualization. Sean has experience in working on systemic and local roadway safety projects, active transportation and safe routes to school projects, first-last mile studies, and local and regional field inventory pursuits. He has an acute skillset in developing data dashboards for public outreach, internal use, data management, and storytelling. He has also conducted research, performed outreach, and provided education programs in the area of goods movement.

Ginger Koblasz is a Sr. Planner at San Bernardino County Transportation Authority (SBCTA) where she manages the San Bernardino Transportation Analysis Model, the Active Transportation Program, development of a new Long Range Multimodal Transportation Plan, and other analytical and data-driven activities. She started working for SBCTA as a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) intern while working on her bachelor’s degree in Environmental Studies from California State University San Bernardino. She was hired at SBCTA full-time in 2000 and worked her way up to GIS Administrator before moving over to her current Sr. Planner position in 2019. She recently went back to school to earn a Master of Science in Transportation Management at San Jose State University – Mineta Transportation Institute in an effort to better understand the nuances behind the data and how to best use the information to help develop equitable solutions that reshape the future of mobility as it addresses the need to curb climate change.

My name is Brenda Reza. I have over nineteen years of business administration, office support, logistics, event planning, business communications, customer relations and Transportation Demand Management. I have a successful track record in time management, attention to detail, marketing, business relationships and project operations with communication skills in both English and Spanish.

I’ve worked in several roles in the IE Commuter project. Starting as an Employer Services Administrative Assistant, to being promoted to Average Vehicle Ridership (AVR) Specialist. About a year later I became IE Commuter, Project Operations working directly with Riverside County Transportation Commission (RCTC) and San Bernardino County Transportation Authority (SBCTA). Currently I serve as Employer Services Representative (ESR).

As an Employer Services Representative, I help about 80 employers with the compliance of South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) Rule 2202 by providing services related to their yearly commuter survey and compliance strategies.

I have hosted marketing workshops that provide employers tools to continue the reduction of emissions by taking an alternate form of transportation. My favorite time of the year is during National Rideshare Week, specifically during our Kickoff Event, where I am a lead coordinator, for this regional event that rally’s up our 300+ employers we serve to promote rideshare awareness. My other roles at IE Commuter have included managing the call center hotline, web inquires and live chat coverage as assistance and resources to employers.