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The Mid-America Regional Council is the designated Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for the Kansas City metropolitan area. As the MPO, MARC receives federal funds to develop regional transportation plans and programs and to coordinate technical and policy studies on a wide range of transportation issues, working in cooperation with the Kansas Department of Transportation, the Missouri Department of Transportation, local governments and transit providers.

MARC’s transportation planning activities encompass all of Cass, Wyandotte, Johnson and Jackson counties, and portions of Leavenworth, Platte and Clay counties (see Boundary Map).

The primary products of the transportation planning process include:

• Long-Range Transportation Plan (LRTP)
• Transportation Improvement Program (TIP)
• Congestion Management System (CMS)
• Public Participation Plan
• Regional Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) Architecture
• Unified Planning Work Program (UPWP)
• Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Program
• Transportation Enhancements Program

Together these documents provide a blueprint for the development of the region’s transportation system and direct the expenditure of federal funds for highways, transit, bikeways and other modes of transportation.