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Congestion Management System
Program description
Federal
rules require metropolitan planning organizations to develop and implement
Congestion Management Systems (CMS) as part of the metropolitan transportation
planning process. The
CMS serves as a planning tool to help decrease mobile source emissions
and improve regional air quality.
- Monitor, measure and diagnose the causes of congestion on a region's multi-modal transportation systems;
- Evaluate and recommend alternative strategies to manage or improve regional congestion; and
- Evaluate
the performance of strategies put in practice to manage or improve congestion.
In 2001, MARC completed a project conducted by Cambridge Systematics, TranSystems Corporation and Jane Mobley Associates to enhance the CMS. The consultant team assessed MARC's existing CMS; provided an overview of CMS "best practices" from other regions in the United States; and offered recommendations for modifications to MARC's CMS. MARC's Congestion Management Focus Group provided oversight for this project. Based on the recommendations of this project, the Board of Directors adopted a new policy on implementing the CMS in the Kansas City area on December 18, 2001.
Documents
- Congestion Management System Recommendation
Summary (289KB, pdf)
Update from 2004, including a revised level-of-service map and a map of recommended changes to the CMS - Congestion
Management System Policy (134KB, pdf)
How the CMS will be incorporated into greater Kansas City's metropolitan transportation planning process - Best
Practices Review (389KB, pdf)
How other regions have successfully implemented CMS requirements - Review
of MARC Transportation Planning Process and Analytic Tools
(679KB, pdf)
Analysis of MARC's CMS prior to implementing the ECMS recommendations - Implementation
Plan (1.5MB, pdf)
Modifications recommended for the MARC CMS based on the review of national best practices and MARC's existing processes - Performance
Measures Technical Memorandum (360KB, pdf)
Measures of effectiveness considered in the MARC CMS - Conflation
System Technical Memorandum (430KB, pdf)
How to use a tool to project MARC's travel demand forecasting model onto a Geographic Information System (GIS) - Status
of the System Report (4.1MB, pdf)
Describes the location and severity of traffic congestion on the CMS network - Planning
Process Integration Report (168KB, pdf)
Recommendations for incorporating the CMS into MARC's metropolitan planning processes - CMS
Toolbox (299KB, pdf)
Strategies to be considered in developing projects and programs to address congestion in the Kansas City area. - Pilot
Test Report (3MB, pdf)
Ways the CMS Toolbox can be used in corridor and sub-area studies and provides information about the analytic tools developed for the MARC CMS.