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Project Funding
MARC disburses federal transportation funds in the metropolitan area through programs that support capital improvements, air quality, and expanded or enhanced transportation services. These programs shape the development of the region’s transportation system and direct the expenditure of funds for highways, transit, bikeways and other modes of transportation. Individual program Web pages are linked below:
- Transportation
Improvement Program (TIP)
TIPs are important documents for budgeting the funds needed to make transportation improvements possible. The TIP contains individual transportation improvements and projects to be implemented in the next five years within the metropolitan planning boundary. - Surface
Transportation Program (STP)
The STP provides project funding recommendations to receive federal funds sub-allocated to MARC to complete a variety of improvements to roads and streets in urban areas that are eligible for federal aid. - Bridge
Replacement and Rehabilitation Program (BR)
The STP provides project funding recommendations to receive federal funds sub-allocated to MARC to reconstruct, replace, rehabilitate, repair and widen deficient highway bridges. - Congestion
Mitigation/Air Quality (CMAQ)
Federal CMAQ funds are used to pay for transportation projects that improve air quality in “non-attainment” and “maintenance” areas — those areas where the EPA considers air quality to be poor, or where there have been air quality problems in the past. - Transportation
Enhancements (TE)
The Kansas and Missouri Transportation Enhancements (TE) program helps fund projects that expand travel choices and enhance the transportation experience through improvements to the cultural, aesthetic, historic and environmental aspects of the transportation network. - Job
Access and Reverse Commute Program
The federal Job Access and Reverse Commute (JARC) grant program improves mobility and economic opportunity for welfare recipients and low-income individuals by funding new or expanded transportation services. - Vehicles
for Elderly/Disabled: Section 5310 Capital Assistance Program
The federal Section 5310 Program provides funding to support transporting the elderly and/or disabled where public transportation services are unavailable, insufficient or inappropriate. - Aging
Transportation Program
In conjunction with MARC's Department of Aging Services, MARC contracts each fiscal year with providers that offer transportation services for the aging and persons with disabilities, serving Cass, Clay, Jackson, Platte and Ray counties in Missouri.