MetroQuest

Category: [AWARDS]

  • [AWARD] MetroQuest Wins 2019 Ready to Rocket Technology Award

    [AWARD] MetroQuest Wins 2019 Ready to Rocket Technology Award

    Rocket Builders has recognized MetroQuest as a top technology company poised for exceptional growth in 2019.

    Thank you Rocket Builders for selecting MetroQuest as a winner for the information and communications technology (ICT) award. For the third consecutive year, MetroQuest has received the “Ready to Rocket” award for consistently achieving outstanding growth. In 2019, we expect to double our growing community of annual subscribers and to grow revenues by 80 to 100 percent.

    “After much research into the trends driving growth in the information technology sector, it became clear that MetroQuest is well positioned to capitalize on these trends,” said Geoffrey Hansen, Managing Partner, Rocket Builders.

    I would like to personally thank the esteemed panel of judges for recognizing the accomplishments of our world-class team. This award represents the collective achievements of all of our employees. They helped make 2018 a truly transformative year! We achieved 53% revenue growth, with 75% attributed to annual subscriptions to MetroQuest.

    The first two months of 2019 have far exceeded expectations, placing us well on track to double our subscriber base this year.

    Stay tuned for more great announcements from MetroQuest in 2019…

  • [AWARD] MetroQuest Wins Top 10 Citizen Relationship Solution Provider Award

    [AWARD] MetroQuest Wins Top 10 Citizen Relationship Solution Provider Award

    Government CIO Outlook has selected MetroQuest as a Top 10 Citizen Relationship Solution Provider.

    Government CIO Outlook is a technology magazine that focuses on the trends, challenges, and opportunities for CIOs to deliver technology-driven services and operations. A distinguished panel – comprised of CEOs, CIOs, VCs, and analysts, alongside the Government CIO Outlook editorial board – recently reviewed and shortlisted the top companies at the forefront of tackling citizen relationship management challenges.

    CIO Gove Award

    We’re honored to win this prestigious award and to have MetroQuest recognized as a vital online public engagement tool for today’s government agencies to nurture better citizen relationships.

    With public trust in government under constant pressure, MetroQuest surveys help agencies foster positive relationships by involving citizens in planning for better transportation networks and more livable cities to improve their quality of life.

    MetroQuest surveys have been used by hundreds of agencies of all sizes to engage thousands of citizens online. The latest edition of Government CIO Outlook featured an article on the Texas Department of Transportation success story. Learn how the team at TxDOT has used MetroQuest to engage over 6,600 citizens to improve transportation planning and build new infrastructure to meet the true needs of Texans.

    “Let’s face it, our attention span is directly proportioned to how interesting whatever we are focusing on at the moment is,” said Jefferson Grimes, Director, Public Engagement, TxDOT. “Online engagement provides the hook, so to speak, needed to capture the public’s attention. Constituents are able to provide input in a meaningful manner and on issues that are important to them and do it quickly, at their own convenience.” Read our TxDOT case study ⟶

    We’d like to congratulate TxDOT and all MetroQuest subscribers on their outstanding public engagement work in 2018! We wish you much continued success this year.

  • [AWARD] MetroQuest Named a Top 20 Most Promising Smart City Solution

    [AWARD] MetroQuest Named a Top 20 Most Promising Smart City Solution

    CIOReview this week selected MetroQuest as a best-in-breed smart city technology solution for uplifting the way urban residents live, work, and communicate.

    We love to take the time to celebrate success at MetroQuest, both the success of our customers in achieving outstanding public engagement outcomes and our own success in delivering the best solutions for involving citizens in planning for better, more livable places. Today, we celebrate winning the top 20 Most Promising Smart City Solutions award for 2018 by CIOReview!

    Over the past several months, a distinguished panel of CEOs, CIOs, VCs, analysts, and CIOReview’s own editorial board reviewed hundreds of the top companies that provide innovative tools to make cities smarter. They chose MetroQuest among the top 20 at the forefront of delivering modernization for cities.

    I would like to personally thank the esteemed panel of judges for recognizing MetroQuest with this award as a vital tool for today’s smart cities. Public engagement is certainly at or near the top of today’s agenda for CIOs, smart city strategists, and urban planners. We believe that’s because the focus for smart cities has become much less about technology and much more about people. While much of the early smart city dialog focused on the technology, it’s now well recognized that the technology needs to connect with and improve the lives of all the people living in cities.

    As a member of the American Planning Association’s Task Force for Smart Cities and Sustainability, we advocated that the responsibility of urban planners is to clearly articulate a community’s vision. Smart cities allow government to better serve citizens by improving the feedback loop for the public to voice their opinions.

    The clearer the voice of the people, the better the support government agencies can provide.

    That’s were we come in with MetroQuest. Our highly engaging surveys are used by governments and firms to involve thousands of citizens in planning for smarter cities. Today’s preferred cloud-based public survey, MetroQuest delivers a highly visual and interactive online experience to educate residents about scenarios and tradeoffs, while collecting informed and quantifiable input. The resulting insights build support for the adoption of great urban and transportation plans that make cities better places to work, live, and play.

    Let’s take this opportunity to celebrate a client success story!

    Agencies all over America are launching highly impactful MetroQuest surveys to engage the public in the planning process to make their cities smarter this year. A Metropolitan Planning Agency, the Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission (SPC) is developing a new regional plan. It recently engaged Michael Baker International to design a MetroQuest Site to seek public input on external forces with the potential to significantly impact the Southwestern Pennsylvania region. Citizen responses – including technology preferences for self-driving vehicles, robotics, broadband, additive manufacturing, and mobility as a service – will help shape the next regional plan. Nearly 1,000 citizens have already responded!

    Take a look at the demo version of the Forces of Change survey here! (Note: demo MetroQuest data is not counted toward the final results.)

  • [AWARD] MetroQuest Celebrates TRB Winner – Congratulations MnDOT!

    [AWARD] MetroQuest Celebrates TRB Winner – Congratulations MnDOT!

    Every year, the Transportation Research Board (TRB) searches for the best public involvement case studies for it’s popular “John and Jane Q. Public Competition.” This year, we are thrilled to share that the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) has taken home the grand prize for their innovative public involvement work on their Statewide Multimodal Transportation Plan and the Minnesota 20-Year State Highway Investment Plan!  

    The agency used MetroQuest for online public engagement throughout the process, including the use of tablet-based engagement at innovative community events.  

    This year’s theme for the TRB competition, “Communicating the Value of Long-Term Transportation Planning,” is close to our hearts since MetroQuest has become the public involvement software of choice for transportation agencies across the country. We’re pleased to see that our clients are getting the recognition they deserve for their outstanding public involvement results. 

    The TRB calls their effort, “jam-packed with innovative tools and techniques” and cites their success at reaching a broad demographic including underserved communities. Congratulations to MnDOT for an outstanding showcase of how technology can be leveraged to increase public involvement and collect meaningful community input to inform transportation plans.  

    The TRB understands how challenging it is to engage the public on long range transportation plans. 

    “It’s extremely difficult to get the average person involved in long-term transportation planning. After all, developing long-term transportation plans, such as regional transportation plans or strategic citywide mobility studies are much less precise and often have much longer implementation periods than plans for a particular transport infrastructure.…But early and on-going involvement by John and Jane Q. Public is just as crucial for long-term transport planning as for planning specific transport facilities. To stimulate creative thinking and share innovative approaches, the Planning and Environment Group of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) sought best practices in communicating the value and importance of getting the public involved in long-term transportation planning.” 

    Congratulations to MnDOT for your outstanding win! The whole team at MetroQuest is celebrating your success! 

    Here are some resources if you’d like to learn more: 

    MetroQuest Case Studies 

    TRB John and Jane Q. Public Competition  

  • [AWARD] MetroQuest Wins 2018 Top Technology Company Award

    [AWARD] MetroQuest Wins 2018 Top Technology Company Award

    Rocket Builders chose MetroQuest among 450 contenders as a top technology company best positioned for exceptional growth in 2018! 

    MetroQuest was acknowledged this week by Rocket Builders as one of the top private BC companies positioned to capitalize on trends in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector. With a fast-growing base of annual subscribers, MetroQuest is deemed to be among the best GovTech companies to achieve exceptional growth exceeding 50 to 100 percent in 2018!

    Reg Nordman, Managing Partner at Rocket Builders said, “Each year when we choose the Ready to Rocket companies, we are looking for those companies that have best matched technical innovation with market opportunity. MetroQuest is an excellent example of the right technology for the right customers at the right time.”

    We are honored to have been selected alongside 39 other BC technology companies on the 2018 ICT Ready to Rocket list. I would like to express gratitude to the esteemed panel of judges for recognizing MetroQuest as a technology leader. We are seeing the GovTech sector gaining momentum, and MetroQuest is well poised to deliver on the growing demand for online public engagement solutions.

    After 20 years of deep experience as consultants for online public engagement, MetroQuest launched its first software as a service solution in late 2016. It has been a year of explosive growth for the company – we have nearly doubled in size. Planning firms and government agencies of all sizes – from towns and cities to State Departments of Transportation – have subscribed to MetroQuest to engage thousands of people, collect informed input, and deliver actionable results to support their planning efforts to build better places and transportation options for citizens. In 2018, we will continue to innovate and deliver the best solutions to optimize online public engagement.

    Thank you to the team at Rocket Builders for this award!