It serves as the new transfer center for Dubuque's bus system, between Jule buses and intercity buses serving Dubuque, and as a transfer point between other modes of land transportation.

[1] The center was intended to be the western terminal of the Black Hawk, a Chicago–Rockford–Dubuque Amtrak intercity rail route.

On April 10, 2014, a new proposal for Amtrak service to terminate in Rockford was announced following the inability of the state of Illinois to reach a deal with the Canadian National Railway for use of their tracks.

Due to the new proposal, the train station component of the center was placed on hold until a deal could be reached with the CN.

[4] The city of Dubuque broke ground on the rest of the DITC project in May 2014.