WAMPO

WAMPO is the Metropolitan Planning Organization (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 in 22 cities and 3 counties in South Central Kansas.

The Wichita Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (WAMPO) coordinates an annual count of bicycle and pedestrian activity across 35 different locations throughout the region. The data collected during these counts is used to plan the location of future bicycle and pedestrian investments.