Rayla Bellis

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Biography

Rayla Bellis is a Program Manager with Smart Growth America. She joined the organization in 2009 and has spent the past five years providing technical assistance to state departments of transportation and other transportation agencies and stakeholders through the DOT Innovation Program. This has included technical assistance in multimodal decision-making and design, transportation demand management, transportation performance measurement, and stakeholder engagement in the decision-making process. Rayla also served as project manager for the development of The Innovative DOT: A handbook of policy and practice, a resource for state transportation officials developed by Smart Growth America in partnership with the State Smart Transportation Initiative.