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What is the TIP?
As the designated Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for the Greater Kansas City area, MARC maintains a financially-constrained Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) for the region. 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. Only the first three years are included in the State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP).
Area programmed by the TIP
The metropolitan planning boundary includes Wyandotte, Johnson and Leavenworth counties (except the city of Lansing) in Kansas, and Jackson, sourthern Platte, southern Clay and northern Cass counties in Missouri. Parts of the region are designated as maintenance areas for air quality. MARC must make sure that all capacity projects included in the TIP within Clay, Jackson, Johnson, Platte and Wyandotte counties meet air quality conformity requirements established by the Clean Air Act of 1990.
What does the TIP include?
The TIP incorporates all federally funded projects and all capacity projects regardless of funding source. Capacity projects include new roadways, addition of through lanes to existing streets and interchange construction or modification. The TIP identifies TSM — or safety — improvements to intersections, such as new traffic signals and adding turn lanes. Transit projects, transportation enhancement projects, bike and pedestrian projects, and planning projects funded with sub-allocated Surface Transportation Program (STP) and Bridge funds are also included in the TIP.
How are projects selected?
MARC solicits project proposals from the Kansas and Missouri departments of transportation (DOTs) as well as all local jurisdictions and public transit providers. Priorities for the sub-allocated STP funds are set by MARC's Highway Committee for the next five years.
Updating the TIP
The TIP update process begins in early January and is completed by September 30th each year.
Amending the TIP
MARC amends the TIP on a quarterly cycle upon approval of the Total Transportation Policy Committee (TTPC) and the MARC Board. Amendments are needed when adding new projects, or modifying or deleting existing projects that meet certain criteria. When an amendment is requested, a notice is published in the Sunday edition metropolitan section of the of the Kansas City Star the weekend following the TTPC meeting. The notice states that an amendment is available for public review at the reference desk of the public libraries in the metropolitan area. The end of the public review and comment period will be specified in the public notice.
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