WAMPO is the Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPO) for the Wichita metropolitan region. MPOs are federally required regional policy bodies in urbanized areas with populations over 50,000. MPOs recognize the critical links between transportation and other societal goals such as economic health, air quality, social equity, environmental resource consumption, and overall quality of life. Locally, the Wichita Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (WAMPO) is responsible, in cooperation with the State of Kansas and Wichita Transit, for carrying out the metropolitan transportation planning process. The Wichita Area Planning Organization (or WAMPO, for short) serves 22 cities and all or part of 3 counties in south central Kansas. We, along with our federal, state, and local planning partners, are responsible for transportation planning in our metro area.