Metropolitan Kansas City's
Long-Range Transportation Plan

Paola, Kan.

Measuring Progress | moving toward our goals

For the first time, MARC's long-range transportation plan incorporates system measures to check up on our progress. Below are several important factors that can help us understand the Kansas City region as it exists today and evaluate how well the transportation system is achieving our goals over time. Resulting trends will inform decisions about alternative strategies or investment priorities that could improve performance.

Learn more in Chapter 3.0: Plan Performance Measures (pdf)

Performance Measures Progress Report Summary – June 2011 (pdf)
Performance Measures Progress Report – June 2011 (pdf)

 

Goal

Factor

Measure

Accessibility

Level of Transit Service
  • Population within mile of fixed-route transit service
  • Ridership
  • Revenue service hours

Environmental Justice
  • Transportation investment in environmental justice tracts

Economic Vitality

Transportation Costs
  • Affordability

Climate Change/ Energy Use

Vehicle Miles Traveled

  • System-wide daily vehicle miles traveled

Vehicle Occupancy

  • Vehicle occupancy rate

Carbon Dioxide

  • System-wide carbon dioxide emissions

Environment

MetroGreen Network
  • Miles of MetroGreen trails and greenways network

Place Making

Multimodal Options
  • Balance between modes of transportation

Public Health

Ozone Pollution
  • Ground-level ozone
  • Ozone pollution violations

Physical Health
  • Obesity rate

Safety and Security

Crash Fatality and Disabling Injuries
  • Roadway crash fatalities
  • Roadway disabling injuries

System Condition

Bridge and Pavement Condition
  • Roadway pavement condition
  • Bridge condition

System Performance

Level of Service
  • Travel speeds

Congestion
  • Network congestion
  • Incident clearance time

Travel Time
  • Regional travel time
  • Average commute time
  • Travel delay