Community Coordination

Texas A&M Transportation Institute
3135 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843
(979) 317-2452
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Deanna Belden is a Senior Research Scientist in TTI’s Community Coordination Program. She joined TTI in 2024 after 25 years at the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) where she served as Director of Performance, Risk, and Investment Analysis for 13 years. Her career has focused on analysis, methods, and measures for decision support and evaluation. She led MnDOT’s Performance Management Program, which includes the online performance dashboard, state and federal performance measure reporting, and new measure development and analysis for areas like destination access and equity. She and her team were responsible for the implementation of MnDOT’s Enterprise Risk Management program to integrate risk assessments into MnDOT’s processes and evaluate organization level risks. They also conducted economic forecasts, analyses, and program evaluations.

She is a member of the Transportation Research Board’s Standing Committee on Performance Management (AJE20) and has served on various panels convened by the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) on performance measurement and management topics. While at MnDOT, she was active in the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) Committee on Performance Based Management, most recently as founding co-chair of the Task Force on Emerging Performance Areas. Her international contributions include serving as working group co-chair for the PIARC Technical Committee 1.1 Performance of Transport Administrations.