ECIA provides transportation planning and technical assistance to ECIA clients. The ECIA transportation and planning staff serve as the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for the Dubuque urbanized area and Regional Planning Affiliation 8 (RPA) in Iowa. As such, the ECIA transportation planners provide cooperative, comprehensive, and continuing services to organizations and communities including: rural Dubuque County, Jackson, Clinton, and Delaware counties in Iowa as well as to neighboring counties in Illinois and Wisconsin. The ECIA transportation planning division offers a number of services including:
The ECIA transportation planning division also offers:
- Comprehensive urban and regional land use planning
- Educational outreach to ECIA municipalities
- Provide staff support to Dubuque Metropolitan Area Transportation Study (DMATS) policy and technical committees
- Provide staff support to the Iowa Regional Planning Affiliation (RPA8) policy and technical committees
- Zoning and annexation services
- Travel Demand Modeling
- Subdivision Ordinance preparation and review
- Urban renewal plans