MetroQuest.com

“After a review of the tools available, it became clear that MetroQuest was the only tool that could support the public involvement phase in the way that we’d wanted.”

Bob Dean

Chicago Metropolitan Planning Agency, Principal Planner

“People instinctively trust the MetroQuest process … and leave as converts and my best ambassadors of the growth management planning process.”

Patrick Robson

Regional Municipality of Niagara

“This is the best way I’ve ever seen for municipalities to engage and get input from the public. Why isn’t every city doing this?”

Stu Houston

Spruce Grove Mayor

“We can point to few initiatives in the past where the greater community came together with one voice – it’s a huge asset going forward.”

Dianne Hunter

Fort St. John City Manager

“It’s very difficult to find a tool to constructively and broadly engage the public – MetroQuest is the only one that I know. MetroQuest can be used to engage any group – students, seniors, business people, and elected officials.”

Harry Harker

High River CAO

MetroQuest is a scenario planning tool. See it in action:

Trouble viewing this YouTube video? Download it here(16Mb).

Let your stakeholders experiment with the future using handheld keypads at live events. Our integrated models instantly display engaging maps and graphs showing the consequences of policy choices.

Generate excitement, collect priorities and broaden your audience with the web edition of MetroQuest. See it for yourself:

Yellowknife Niagara

Coming soon: Chicago, Denver, Vaughan
Email info@MetroQuest.com to be informed
when these projects are launched.

We work with clients from around the world:

Chicago Region - a great region on a Great Lake
Visit the Chicago Region's GO TO 2040 Website
Yellowknife - a prosperous city bordering the Arctic Circle
Visit the Online Version
Niagara - a great region on 2 Great Lakes
Visit the Niagara 2031 Website
Calgary - a large fast growing Alberta commercial center
Spruce Grove - a smaller fast growing Alberta community
Watch a video of city officials describing the process
Beijing - the National Training Center for Mayors of China (NTCMC)
Manchester - a North West English metropolis
Fort St. John - a city in the gas fields of British Columbia
Visit Fort St. John's Our Bright Future project portal
Watch a video of residents describing their priorities
Denver - a “Mile High City” - Download their Press Release

Our clients care about long-term visions:

What do they say about us?

“People instinctively trust the MetroQuest process because we don’t tell them to choose this or that. Rather, they are encouraged to experiment and to make choices based on their own values. The result is that they use the tool to legitimately convince themselves and come to their “aha” moment through their own sense of discovery. Some people come to the meetings with their own personal agenda for the region and leave as converts and my best ambassadors of the growth management planning process.”

Patrick Robson

Regional Municipality of Niagara

Create Broad-based Support for Your Planning Initiatives

What MetroQuest can do for you:

Communicate complex planning concepts easily to lay people.
Generate excitement and public awareness for your initiatives.
Increase public and stakeholder participation in your planning initiatives.
Help the community develop an understanding and acceptance for policy decisions.
Create broad-based consensus for your community’s future vision.

Why MetroQuest is effective:

Expertise and Focus – We are internationally recognized stakeholder engagement specialists. This is all that we do and have done for the past 11 years.
Specialized Technology – We develop and deliver unique software tools for the sole purpose of improving planning processes.
Proven Processes – We provide engagement frameworks specifically designed to create public dialogue around transportation, land use, resource management and the many other things that communities care about.
Flexibility –We lead the public engagement sessions, or when clients prefer to deliver their own, we train them to use our technology and processes.
Consensus – We bring communities together by communicating the impacts of policy choices to non-expert audiences, leaving them with an understanding and sense of ownership over the result.
Refined and Tested – MetroQuest represents 10 years of university research validated and refined by over a decade of work with municipal and regional clients.

Download More Information

MetroQuest to Help Chicago Imagine a Brighter Future
Press Release - PDF, 304K
Denver Region to Explore Alternative Futures
Press Release - PDF, 72K
Citizens Invited to Plan Yellowknife's Future
Press Release - PDF, 264K
MetroQuest to Train Chinese Mayors in Sustainable Development
Press Release - PDF, 117K
The Real Sim City
BBC Article
Framework for Regional Cooperation and Understanding
Red Deer Case Study - PDF, 162K
I Have Seen the Future - Several, in Fact
Article at The Institute of Urban Studies at the University of Winnipeg