The Wilmington Urban Area Metropolitan Planning Organization is the regional transportation planning agency for the lower Cape Fear region of southeastern North Carolina. The WMPO facilitates a cooperative, comprehensive, and continuing transportation planning process that serves as the basis for the expenditure of all federal transportation funds in the area for streets, highways, bridges, public transit, and bicycle and pedestrian facilities.
More About Us Meet The BoardThis is your last chance to comment on the 25-year plan that guides transportation improvements in New Hanover County and portions of Brunswick and Pender counties! The MPO will host three virtual public open houses in July in place of the in-person open houses that were canceled due COVID-19. This is the last step in gathering public input to complete a final review of the Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP), Cape Fear Moving Forward 2045, before it goes to the MPO Board for approval in October. Click here for Zoom meeting details and the draft plan.
The project submittal window for Prioritization 6.0 is scheduled to open October 1, 2019 through May 1, 2020. The WMPO will refer to the currently adopted MTP, Cape Fear Transportation 2040, as well as coordinate with project partners and NCDOT Division 3, to select projects for submission. The WMPO is eligible to submit up to 19 projects per transportation mode. Once the project submittal window has ended, the next steps taken by NCDOT are to score all projects and program the highest scoring and eligible projects for money at the statewide tier. To learn more about the Prioritization 6.0 process, visit NCDOT’s 2023-2032 STIP Development page.
In September the NCDOT Board of Transportation adopted the 2020-2029 State Transportation Improvement Plan. This plan is the result of efforts by NCDOT, MPO’s, and RPO’s from across North Carolina, to prioritize project through Prioritization 5.0. The document consists of over 1,700 transportation projects across North Carolina. To learn more about the 2020-2029 STIP process, visit the NCDOT’s 2020-2029 STIP Development page.
The MPO will host the third of three virtual public open houses in July in place of the in-person open houses that were canceled due COVID-19. The virtual open houses are the last step in gathering public input to complete a final review of the Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP), Cape Fear Moving Forward 2045. This plan will guide transportation infrastructure improvement projects in the MPO region for the next 25 years. Click here for Zoom meeting details.
The MPO will host the first of three virtual public open houses in July in place of the in-person open houses that were canceled due COVID-19. The virtual open houses are the last step in gathering public input to complete a final review of the Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP), Cape Fear Moving Forward 2045. This plan will guide transportation infrastructure improvement projects in the MPO region for the next 25 years. Click here for Zoom meeting details.
The MPO will host the second of three virtual public open houses in July in place of the in-person open houses that were canceled due COVID-19. The virtual open houses are the last step in gathering public input to complete a final review of the Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP), Cape Fear Moving Forward 2045. This plan will guide transportation infrastructure improvement projects in the MPO region for the next 25 years. Click here for Zoom meeting details.
The Wilmington Urban Area Metropolitan Planning Organization collects traffic counts on an annual basis. This map identifies locations and traffic count data for the WMPO planning area.
This project will upgrade the City of Wilmington’s citywide signal system.
This project will widen Gordon Road to four lanes between Market Street (US17 Business) and I-40.
This project includes dual lefts at the intersection of US76/Oleander Drive and Greenville Loop Road/Greenville Avenue.