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The Mid-America Regional Council and other agencies throughout the region conduct special studies to better understand transportation and its relationships in the Kansas City region. These studies focus on issues such as congested corridors, problematic interchanges and future transit possibilities. The following pages detail some of the area's planning studies with which MARC is involved:
Major
Investment Studies
Major investment studies determine
which alternative transportation strategy or mix of strategies will
best work to solve a transportation problem within a corridor.
There are no current major investment studies underway.
Corridor
Studies
Corridor
studies are similar in nature to MIS, but they do not always analyze
the
broadest range of possible alternatives as MIS are required to study.
Alternatives
Analyses or Environmental Studies
An
Alternatives Analysis (AA) is a corridor planning study in which one or
more of the alternatives under study is, or includes, a fixed guideway
facility. Its intent
is to identify and compare the costs, benefits, and impacts of a range
of transportation alternatives as a means of providing local decision
makers with the information necessary to implement the most appropriate
transportation
solutions in priority corridors. Environmental Studies are required under
the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA). There are three
levels of analysis: categorical exclusion determination, environmental
assessment/finding of no significant impact (EA/FONSI), and environmental
impact statements (EIS).