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Multi-vehicle households to mass transit users will be sought from across the Quad-Cities, from Eldridge in the north, Buffalo and Andalusia on the west, Princeton and Port Byron to the northeast and Colona and Coal Valley to the south and east.About 4,000 households will be contacted for the survey that has phone and travel diary components and, for some, a GPS unit. The notifications will be mailed in Bi-State marked envelopes."Things have changed since the '60s," said Bettendorf Mayor Bob Gallagher, who chairs Bi-State's transportation committee. "People carry computers in their pockets and people travel much differently than they did."The data collected will be used in several ways and also incorporated into the area's long-range transportation plan on file with the U.S. Department of Transportation. That document will be updated in 2016. Information will be confidential and used only for statistical purposes, said Gena McCullough, planning director for Bi-State.A pilot survey in July and August honed the questions in the phone survey and trained interviewers.

The average recruitment survey takes less than 15 minutes and a follow-up interview is expected to last less than eight minutes.The survey seeks data such as number in household, number of drivers and vehicles for that household, mode of travel, origin and destination, and trip purpose.Consequently all emotions were associated with the heart including love Isuzu fire truck Plus when we feel strong emotions such as love. A travel diary will require participants to track destinations, activity at the destination, times of arrival and departure and number of people involved in the trip.Bi-State has used travel behavior data gleaned from Des Moines in recent modeling but is recognizing the shortcomings of that data, particularly because it doesn't include cross-river travel. That is important in the Quad-Cities because about 15,000 Scott County residents work on the Illinois side of the river and the same number of Rock Island County residents are estimated to cross to Iowa for work.Getting responses so the survey provides good data is important, so people shouldn't discard a letter with the Bi-State logo on it, informing them that a representative of ETC Institute will call them within a few days."We don't want people throwing out the survey thinking it is junk mail," McCullough said.