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Publications & Reports
These publications produced by the Mid-America Regional Council provide information about the work of MARC's Transportation Department.
A
Citizen's Guide to Transportation Planning (354KB, pdf)
This booklet
is designed to help area residents understand the complex process of transportation
decision making and learn how they can more effectively provide input.
It describes MARC's role in the process, as well as the roles of federal,
state and local governments.
Creating
Walkable Communities (140KB,
pdf)
A resource guide for local
governments and concerned citizens on how to make communities more walkable
and pedestrian-friendly. The report includes guidelines, suggestions and
techniques.
KC
Commuter (pdf)
Newsletter produced by MARC's RideShare commuter services program
Planning
It Safe: Integrating Safety in Transportation System Design and Operation
(973KB,
pdf)
This document summarizes the safety forum that MARC and the USDOT
co-hosted in February 2003. The forum was intended to help agencies
incorporate safety and security as priority factors in their transportation
planning processes and activities.
Public
Particpation Plan (465kb,
pdf)
Approved in October 2007, this document describes MARC's policy
on involving the public in the transportation planning process.
A one-step resource for names, addresses, phone and fax numbers for government institutions, officials, and important organizations that serve the bistate Kansas City area.
Transit-Supportive
Development Guidebook
(1.6MB,
pdf))
This
guidebook defines transit-supportive development (TSD) and offers specific
examples of how TSD could be implemented in both new and existing development
situations. Project prototypes include: Beacon Hill and Antioch Mall in
Kansas City, Mo.; the Independence Square in Independence, Mo.; the Liberty
Triangle area in Liberty, Mo.; Rosedale in Kansas City, KS; and Shawnee
Mission Parkway in Shawnee, KS.
Transportation
Outlook 2030 Update
The long-range plan for improving the region's transportation
system's through the year 2030 (updated in 2005).
Transportation 2030 Update
PowerPoint (2.7MB,
pdf)
Presentation on long-range plan for improving the region's transportation
system's through the year 2030 (updated in 2005).
Transportation
Improvement Program (TIP)
The
Transportation Improvement Program includes all of the region's transportation
projects by funding source. The TIP usually covers a
five-year period.
Transportation
Matters
Monthly electronic
newsletter produced by MARC's Transportation Department