Description: This is a combination of the Regional Bikey Plan and the Metrogreen Corridors:The Regional Bike Plan is used for educating the public on the presence of these trails in their region. This data was developed through input from committees as well as local jurisdictions.MetroGreen® is an interconnected system of public and private natural areas, parks, greenways and trails linking communities throughout the Kansas City metropolitan area. The 1,144-mile greenway plan covers Leavenworth, Johnson and Wyandotte counties in Kansas and Cass, Clay, Jackson and Platte counties in Missouri.
Description: This is a combination of the Regional Bikey Plan and the Metrogreen Corridors:The Regional Bike Plan is used for educating the public on the presence of these trails in their region. This data was developed through input from committees as well as local jurisdictions.MetroGreen® is an interconnected system of public and private natural areas, parks, greenways and trails linking communities throughout the Kansas City metropolitan area. The 1,144-mile greenway plan covers Leavenworth, Johnson and Wyandotte counties in Kansas and Cass, Clay, Jackson and Platte counties in Missouri.
Description: The official Metropolitan Planning Organization boundary for the Mid-America Regional Council. This boundary was approved by Missouri Governor, Jay Nixon on 8\19\2009. MARC functions as the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for greater Kansas City. The planning boundary does not extend to the entire MARC region. Two MARC member counties--Miami County in Kansas and Ray County in Missouri--are not included within this boundary.Update 2013 - Miami County was added to MPO Boundary
Description: FHWA and the Census Bureau differ in defining and describing urban and rural areas. The Census Bureau defines urban areas solely for the purpose of tabulating and presenting Census Bureau statistical data. A number of Federal agency programs use the Census definitions as the starting point (if not the basis) for implementing and determining eligibility for a variety of funding programs.Federal transportation legislation allows for the outward adjustment of Census Bureau defined urban boundaries (of population 5,000 and above) as the basis for development of adjusted urban area boundaries for transportation planning purposes. By Federal rule, these adjusted urban area boundaries must encompass the entire Census-designated urban area (of population 5,000 and above) and are subject to approval by the Secretary of Transportation (23 USC 101(a) (36)-(37) and 49 USC 5302(a) (16)-(17)).10 According to 23 U.S.C. 101(a)(33), areas of population greater than 5,000 can qualify as urban, in contrast to the Census Bureau’s threshold of 2,500. There are also differences in the terminology used to describe sub-categories of urban areas. FHWA refers to the smallest urban area as a “small urban area”, while the Census Bureau refers to “urban clusters”. The Federal government does not require Census urban boundary adjustments. States may adopt the Census boundaries as is, or adjust them for transportation planning purposes. The only official requirement is adjusted boundaries must include the original urban area boundary defined by the Census Bureau in its entirety. In other words, any adjustment must expand, not contract, the Census Bureau urban area boundary. The adjusted urbanized area boundaries can also include other areas that are “urban” in character but do not meet the Census Bureau’s population threshold (e.g., high density industrial or commercial areas, urban parks, etc.). The adjusted boundaries can also be expanded to ensure major roads do not alternate between urban and rural designations. This geography, called the “adjusted urbanized area” boundary, includes locations with a population of 50,000 or greater.
Description: The data in the Alternative Fueling Station Locator are gathered and verified through a variety of methods. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) obtains information about new stations from trade media, Clean Cities coordinators, a Submit New Station form on the Station Locator website, and through collaborating with infrastructure equipment and fuel providers, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), and industry groups. Each point on the map is counted as one station in the station count. A station appears as one point on the map, regardless of the number of fuel dispensers or charging outlets at that location. Station addresses are geocoded and mapped using an automatic geocoding application. The geocoding application returns the most accurate location based on the provided address. Station locations may also be provided by external sources (e.g., station operators) and/or verified in a geographic information system (GIS) tool like Google Earth, Google Maps, or Google StreetView. This information is considered highly accurate, and these coordinates override any information generated using the geocoding application. Source: US Department of Energy - Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy
Description: Bottleneck Definition:Bottleneck conditions are determined by comparing the current reported speed to the reference speed for each segment of road. Reference speed values are provided to us for each segment and represent the 85th percentile observed speed for all time periods. If the reported speed falls below 60% of the reference, the road segment is flagged as a potential bottleneck. If the reported speed stays below 60% for five minutes, the segment is confirmed as a bottleneck location.Field Descriptions:Rank: From the 'Bottleneck Ranking' tool, all ten segments ranked 1-10, 1 being the largest bottleneck.Impact: The aggregation of queue length over time for congestion originating at each location in mile-minutes. For example, if at time t1 an element has congestion covering one mile of the roadway, it has an impact of 1. If the congestion then grows at time t2 to cover 2 miles, the location will now have an impact of 3. If at time t3 congestion shrinks to 1 mile, and at t4 there is no congestion, the element will have a final impact of 4.Avg_Max_Le: The average maximum length, in miles, of queues formed by congestion originating at the location.Avg_Durati: The average amount of time per day that congestion is identified originating at the location.Total_Dura: The total amount of time congestion was identified at the location.Name: Name of road segment, direction, and nearest exit or crossroad.
Service Item Id: 9d3c12cedfe4414f9f06d388decbc835
Copyright Text: Missouri Regional Integrated Transportation Information System (RITIS),
Probe Data Analytics Suite
Author: Shawn Urbach
Description: The 9-1-1 street centerlines used within the regional 9-1-1 system for Greater Kansas City. This centerline supports address geocoding by street name and emergency service zone for the nine-county region encompassed by the Mid-America Regional Council (MARC). This dataset is maintained on a daily basis by MARC GIS through coordination with MARC's Public Safety Program and the cities and counties which contribute their street data to the program.
Service Item Id: 9d3c12cedfe4414f9f06d388decbc835
Copyright Text: MARC Public Safety Program; MARC GIS; The cities and counties comprising the MARC region.
Description: The redevelopment area for the Kansas City region is a representation of the 1990 urbanized area, and it contains the following components: 1. 1990 Census tracts with a minimum of 1,000 population or employment per square mile, converted to 2012 Census blockgroups2. 2010 blocks at least 30% developed in 1990, within 2010 urban areas.Within the redevelopmeht area, any land use change resulting in an increase in population or employment is defined as redevelopment or infill (refill) in the long-range forecast (www.marc.org/forecast). These people and jobs are the ones counted when calculating the percentage of regional growth accomodated by the refill of the existing urbanized area.
Description: The 9-1-1 street centerlines used within the regional 9-1-1 system for Greater Kansas City. This centerline supports address geocoding by street name and emergency service zone for the nine-county region encompassed by the Mid-America Regional Council (MARC). This dataset is maintained on a daily basis by MARC GIS through coordination with MARC's Public Safety Program and the cities and counties which contribute their street data to the program.
Service Item Id: 9d3c12cedfe4414f9f06d388decbc835
Copyright Text: MARC Public Safety Program; MARC GIS; The cities and counties comprising the MARC region.