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Quad Cities Metro Transportation Planning
Bi-State Regional Commission is the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for the Davenport IA-IL urbanized area. Bi-State staff prepare transportation plans for the urbanized area, commonly known as the Quad Cities, Iowa/Illinois. Transportation planning in the urban area is a coordinated and continuing process. Its purpose is to assist communities in the implementation of transportation improvements, both short and long term. This type of planning is required before federal funds can be spent on transportation projects – streets, public transit, or bicycle facilities. Planning before implementation has the added benefit of providing a technical means of prioritizing transportation needs and aligning these priorities with available funding. Roadways, transit, railroads, waterways, airports, trails and intermodal facilities are all considered in the planning process. Local, state, and federal jurisdictions work together with support from Bi-State staff to develop planning and programming recommendations for transportation improvements. In the Quad Cities Urbanized Area, recommendations are considered by the Transportation Policy Committee composed of chief elected officials of cities and counties, Illinois and Iowa State Departments of Transportation, and the Illinois Quad Cities transit district.
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Bi-State Region Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) Architecture Plan describes implementing ITS technologies to improve operations and traffic management.
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Quad Cities Iowa/Illinois MPO Extreme Weather and Transportation Resilience Report (2020) is 1 of 11 pilots funded by Federal Highway Administration between 2018-2020 to look at extreme weather in relation to transportation system vulnerability, and assess critical facilities and impacts of extreme weather on the Quad Cities transportation system.
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Bi-State Region Freight Plan outline freight transportation needs for the metro area as well as those in the Bi-State Region.
pdf FINAL_BSRC_Exec_Summ.pdf (3.21 MB)
pdf FINAL_BSRC_Final_Report.pdf (5.19 MB)
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The Quad Cities MPO has participated in traffic safety planning since its inception in 1966. Intersection crash reports have been prepared with the most recent specific to intersection in 2013. In 2020 the first Quad Cities Traffic Safety Plan was produced. It examined overall crashes as well as intersections and crash emphasis areas where data illustrated trends and hot spots for fatal and serious injury crashes. The MPO staff a Community Awareness of Roadway Safety (CARS) group in Scott County comprised of planners, engineers, public safety officials, law enforcement and representatives from the Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT). It was established in partnership with the Iowa Governors’ Traffic Safety Bureau more than two decades ago to work on reduction of crashes, coordination of enforcement activity, and sharing of data and information to raise awareness of crash prevention or mitigation. Annually, the MPO brings together a joint group from the Iowa and Illinois Quad Cities to discuss traffic safety issues and coordination.
Traffic Safety Action Plan – Toward Vision Zero
Bi-State Regional Commission was awarded with Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) Grant in 2023 from the US Department of Transportation to complete a traffic safety action plan for Quad Cities-Iowa/Illinois, Muscatine, Iowa and Kewanee, Illinois. The USDOT SS4A program emphasizes that one death on our roadways is one too many, and the vision is to reduce this to zero, Vision Zero. The project goal is to develop a comprehensive traffic safety action plan for the three geographies to reduce roadway fatalities and serious injuries, and to identify the beneficial projects or solutions toward safer streets for everyone. Through a consultant-led process, the Project Study Partners will include collaborating with Quad Cities MPO staff and Transportation Technical Committee and with city staff from Muscatine, and Kewanee to oversee the Traffic Safety Action Plan process. Public involvement will part of the plan development process.
Bi-State staff are currently working with partners to hire a consultant to complete the Traffic Safety Action Plan or plans. The planning process is expected to begin by the end of 2023 and the final plan is anticipated no later than March 2025.
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The Bi-State Regional Commission (BSRC) conducted a Mississippi River Rail Crossing Study to review existing railroad crossings and plan for the future of railroad operations across the Mississippi River in the Quad Cities region. Existing railroad crossings at the Government Bridge and Crescent Bridge are both over 100 years old with movable swing spans to accommodate river traffic and have been identified as needing replacement in the 2017 Iowa State Rail Plan. The results of this study can be found in these documents.
pdf River Rail Crossing Study - Existing Conditions (1.01 MB)
pdf River Rail Crossing Study - Purpose and Need (928 KB)
pdf River Rail Crossing Study - Alternatives Analysis Report (9.41 MB)
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Link to traffic counts and other relevant webpages, road/bridge interactive map for Quad Cities MPO