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The Amarillo MPO collaborates with local, county, and state officials to coordinate and develop transportation systems, ensuring effective planning, coordination of transportation modes, and proposing projects that meet the region’s transportation needs.

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  • amarillompo@amarillo.gov
  • 806-378-4219
  • Simms Municipal Building
    Second Floor
    808 S Buchanan St
    Amarillo, TX 79101
  • Office Hours:
    Monday – Friday
    8:00 am – 5:00 pm

Metropolitan Transportation Plan 2025-2050

The Amarillo Metropolitan Transportation Plan outlines a comprehensive framework that enhances connectivity, promotes sustainability, and accommodates the evolving needs of the Amarillo metropolitan area. The 2050 MTP is focused on the principles of efficiency, accessibility, safety, and environmental stewardship by prioritizing several key areas to address current and future transportation.

The MPT 2050 creates the guardrails to a dynamic transportation system, supporting the region’s growth and enhancing accessibility in the Amarillo area. By fostering innovation, sustainability, and safety, the MTP paves the way for a resilient Amarillo metropolitan area that thrives well into the future.

MPO Plan & Program Document Links

The bylaws of the Amarillo Metropolitan Planning Organization establish the foundational framework that guides its governance, decision-making processes, and commitment to coordinated, transparent, and effective regional transportation planning.
 

Amarillo Metropolitan Planning Organization Bylaws

The Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP) is the 25-year document that outlines the state of current transportation, projects future needs, and offers projects and other methods for keeping the people and freight in the Amarillo MPO region moving efficiently. The MTP encompasses all aspects of transportation planning as well as transportation projects within the Amarillo region. Each local entity submits projects within their jurisdiction for possible inclusion into the MTP, and the Technical Advisory Committee and Transportation Policy Board prioritizes these projects based on the needs of the region. This plan is required to be updated every five years.

2025-2050 Metropolitan Transportation Plan – April 16, 2026

DRAFT – October 2025 MTP Revision

Amarillo MPO 2025-2050 MTP Plan

Amarillo MPO 2020-2045 MTP Plan

The Unified Planning Work Program (UPWP) provides descriptive and scheduling details for the MPO’s planning process. It serves as a base document for carrying on the continuing, cooperative, and comprehensive transportation planning process in the Amarillo urbanized area. The UPWP includes a 2-year budget plan for MPO planning dollars and outlines estimated planning funds to be received by the MPO over the 2-year planning period.

FY 2027 Unified Planning Work Program (UPWP) DRAFT

FY 2025 Annual Performance and Expenditure Report (APER)

FY 2026 UPWP Signed Resolution

2026 Unified Planning Work Program

Public Notice — Fiscal Year 2026 Unified Planning Work Program (UPWP) Public Comment Notification

FY 2025 UPWP Signed Resolution

2025 Unified Planning Work Program Amendment 1

2025 Unified Planning Work Program

2024 Unified Planning Work Program

The Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) is the four-year transportation planning document that includes a detailed listing of projects reasonably expected to begin construction within a four-year period. The TIP is updated every two years. Projects included in the TIP must also be included in the Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP) and are chosen based on regional priority and available funding.

2025-2028 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) – April 16, 2026 — DRAFT

FY 2027-2030 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) — Amarillo Urban Transportation Study

TIP – Amend 2 HWY – January 2026

TIP – Amend Transit – January 2026

TIP Public Notice

2025-2028 Transportation Improvement Plan

January 2024 TIP Transit Amendment

July 2023 TIP Highway Amendment

April 2023 TIP Transit Amendment

2023-2026 Transportation Improvement Plan

The UTP is the Texas Department of Transportation’s (TxDOT’s) 10-year plan that guides the development of transportation projects across the state. Organized into 12 funding categories, with each one addressing a specific type of work, the UTP authorizes the distribution of construction dollars expected to be available over the next 10 years.

Unified Transportation Program

The Amarillo Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) is required by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) to publish or otherwise make available an annual listing of projects, including investments in pedestrian walkways and bicycle transportation facilities, for which federal funds have been obligated during the previous fiscal year. The listing shall include projects identified in the Amarillo Transportation Improvement Program. Obligated projects in this report are listed by Federal-Aid Project Number and include highways, transit, bicycle and pedestrian, and other grouped projects. This report provides an overview of the transportation planning and programming process.

Annual List of Projects — Fiscal Year 2025

Annual List of Projects — Fiscal Year 2024

Annual List of Projects — Fiscal Year 2023

Annual List of Projects — Fiscal Year 2022

The Public Participation Plan (PPP) serves as the official policy document and toolkit for board members, advisory committees, staff and the public.

The public engagement process begins and ends with citizens in mind. Amarillo MPO intentionally designed each section of this plan to connect with you, your points of view and interests, and your comments about specific transportation issues and concerns that may otherwise be unknown.

2023 MPO Public Participation Plan

The Congestion Management Process (CMP) is a systematic approach for managing congestion that provides accurate, up-to-date information on Transporation system performance and assess alternative strategies for congestion management that meet state and local needs. The CMP is intended to produce transportation system performance measures and congestion management strategies that can be reflected in the regional Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP) and Transportation Improvement Program (TIP). Amarillo MPO was recently designated as a Transportation Management Area (TMA); therefore, a CMP plan is required by November 2024.

Call MPO Office with any questions 806-378-4219.

Amarillo Congestion Management Process – November 2024

Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin in any program or activity that receives Federal funds or other Federal financial assistance. As a recipient of Federal transportation funds, Amarillo MPO is required to create and implement a Title VI program for compliance purposes. The Title VI Plan provides an overview of the organization and details how the Title VI program will be implemented by the MPO.

View the MPO Title VI Informational Page.

AAIM serves as a framework for making the necessary improvements to achieve a truly multimodal network within the Amarillo MPO. This plan provides a blueprint for the regional transportation system and identifies points of interest, gaps, future needs, and strategies for meeting those needs. This plan takes a systematic look at the region’s street network and develop strategies for implementing new facilities that will accommodate vehicles, trucks, pedestrians, bicyclists, transit, and freight.

Amarillo Area Regional Multimodal Mobility Plan 2021

Bicycle & Pedestrian Toolbox – Amarillo Area in Motion 2021

Amarillo Area Regional Multimodal Mobility Plan Existing Conditions

The Amarillo Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) establishes performance measure targets to guide data-driven transportation planning, ensuring progress toward improved safety, system reliability, infrastructure condition, and overall mobility for the Amarillo region.
 

FY 2026 Transit Asset Management (TAM) Targets Resolution

FY 2025-2026 City of Amarillo Performance Measures and Targets Approval for Amarillo City Transit (ACT)

FY 2026 Safety Target Resolution

2025 Road and Bridge Targets Resolution

2025 System Performance Measures (PM3) Resolution

FY 2021 Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan (PTASP) Targets Resolution

Category 7 STBG Project Guidelines – 2026

Category 9 TA Project Guidelines – 2026

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City of Amarillo: Property Taxes Rebated Per Year by Agreement Type 

Overview 

The chart shows the dollar amounts of property taxes rebated per year over the last five fiscal years, broken down by agreement type. There were no Chapter 380 property tax rebates in the first two years listed. The total amount increased slightly each year, with a more significant increase in the most recent year. 

Values 

Numerical values presented on the image: 

 

Fiscal Year 2020/2021 

Fiscal Year 2021/2022 

Fiscal Year 2022/2023 

Fiscal Year 2023/2024 

Fiscal Year 2024/2025 

Chapter 311 

$533,080 

$547,426 

$574,947 

$591,249 

$821,350 

Chapter 380 

$0 

$0 

$37,387 

$39,172 

$61,013 

Presentation 

The bar chart shows the amount of property taxes rebated in the past five fiscal years, broken down by agreement type. The horizontal axis shows each of the past five fiscal years and the vertical axis shows the dollar amount rebated. For each fiscal year there is vertical column, comprised of two stacked columns, each of which representing the different agreement types. 

City of Amarillo: Number of Tax Abatements Granted Per Year 

Overview 

The chart shows the number of businesses that received a tax abatement from the City of Amarillo in the past five fiscal years. The 2020/21 and 2021/22 fiscal years each had four active abatements, 2022/23 had five, and 2023/24 and 2024/25 each had seven. 

Values 

Numerical values presented on the image: 

 

Fiscal Year 2020/2021 

Fiscal Year 2021/2022 

Fiscal Year 2022/2023 

Fiscal Year 2023/2024 

Fiscal Year 2024/2025 

Active Abatements Per Year 

4 

4 

5 

7 

7 

Presentation 

The bar chart shows the number of businesses that received a tax abatement from the City of Amarillo in the past five fiscal years. The horizontal axis shows each of the past five fiscal years and the vertical axis shows the number of active abatements each year. Each year has one column, with the height indicating number of active abatements in that year.

Amount of Taxes Abated Per Year 

Overview 

The chart shows the dollar amounts abated over the past five fiscal years from Chapter 312 tax abatement agreements. Each fiscal year shows a larger dollar amount abated, with minor growth over the first three years, a higher increase in the fourth year, and minor growth again in the fifth year. 

Values 

Numerical values presented on the image: 

 

Fiscal Year 2020/2021 

Fiscal Year 2021/2022 

Fiscal Year 2022/2023 

Fiscal Year 2023/2024 

Fiscal Year 2024/2025 

Taxes Abated by City of Amarillo 

$510,061 

$623,017 

$679,849 

$965,261 

$1,143,899 

Total Abated by All Entities Including City of Amarillo 

$1,569,512 

$1,926,332 

$2,103,099 

$2,884,936 

$2,959,496 

Presentation 

The bar chart represents the amount of taxes abated over the past five fiscal years. The horizontal axis shows each of the past five fiscal years and the vertical axis shows the dollar amount abated. The bar representing taxes abated by the City of Amarillo is sightly offset to the side of the bar representing the amount abated by all participating tax entities for each fiscal year. This shows that the amount abated by the City of Amarillo is a part of the total amount abated by all entities.

City of Amarillo: Taxes Rebated Per Year by Type 

Overview 

This chart shows the dollar amounts rebated by the City of Amarillo from economic development incentive agreements over the past five fiscal years. Each year is broken down by rebate type, including property tax rebates, hotel occupancy tax rebates, and sales tax rebates. Each fiscal year shows a slight increase in total dollars rebated, with a more drastic increase in the most recent fiscal year. 

Values 

Numerical values presented on the image: 

 

Fiscal Year 2020/2021 

Fiscal Year 2021/2022 

Fiscal Year 2022/2023 

Fiscal Year 2023/2024 

Fiscal Year 2024/2025 

Property Tax Rebates 

$533,080 

$547,426 

$612,334 

$630,421 

$882,363 

Hotel Occupancy Tax Rebates 

$686,747 

$753,112 

$794,828 

$871,423 

$808,348 

Sales Tax Rebates 

$0 

$21,046 

$55,528 

$45,881 

$368,716 

 

Presentation 

The bar chart represents the amount rebated by the City of Amarillo for each type of tax rebate over the past five fiscal years. The horizontal axis shows each of the past five fiscal years and the vertical axis shows the dollar amount rebated. The different rebate types are stacked vertically in each fiscal year, with the height representing the total dollar amount rebated.