What is an MPO? Creation of CAMPO<\/b> Policy Board<\/b><\/p>\n CAMPO is directed by its Policy Board which includes representatives of the participating local governments within its planning area \u2013 the City of Columbus and Bartholomew County \u2013 as well as the Indiana Department of Transportation. The Policy Board adopts the CAMPO Operational Bylaws<\/a>, which govern the operations of the Board and its advisory committees. The Policy Board typically meets quarterly and additionally as needed. The seven voting members and two ex-officio members are listed below:<\/p>\n<\/div> City of Columbus Representatives<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Bartholomew County Representatives<\/b><\/p>\n Partner Agency Representatives<\/strong><\/p>\n Technical Committee<\/b><\/p>\n The Technical Committee is a working group of transportation specialists in the CAMPO planning area, including those from state and federal partner agencies. The purpose of the committee is to provide comments on plans, studies and projects that require Policy Board approval. The Technical Committee includes members from the following agencies:<\/p>\n<\/div> Citizens Advisory Committee<\/b><\/p>\n The Citizens Advisory Committee (CAC) is an advisory group for MPO plans or plan updates, specifically the long-range plan, currently called the Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP). CAMPO staff may determine if any other plan update would benefit from committee review. The committee does not take any formal action but rather provides feedback on plans brought before them. The Citizens Advisory Committee is not a standing committee, but rather is assembled on an as-needed basis and is disbanded when the applicable plan is complete.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-26","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-03 07:51:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/b>Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) were created by Congress in 1962 through the Federal Aid Highway Act. This legislation focused on planning for urban areas, rather than cities. Each MPO has an Urban Area (UA) that is based on population density and is re-evaluated after each Decennial Census. This UA population calculation determines an MPO\u2019s funding allocation. Each MPO is required to establish a Metropolitan Planning Area (MPA) that includes its Urban Area (UA), plus the area expected to become urbanized within 20-years.<\/p>\n<\/div>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/planning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/05\/logo-300x244.png\"){kind=logo}
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The Columbus Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (CAMPO) was designated as the MPO for the Columbus Area by the Governor of Indiana February 27, 2004. The CAMPO MPA encompasses Bartholomew County. CAMPO\u2019s Urbanized Area Boundary (UAB) is mostly focused around Columbus, but it also extends north to include the area around Edinburgh. Therefore, the Edinburgh area is included in the calculations of the CAMPO urban area population. However, this Edinburgh area is within the Indianapolis MPO Planning Area (IMPO MPA). By interlocal agreement, CAMPO is responsible for \u201clong range planning [MTP] and project funding [TIP] for the Columbus UA located in Johnson and Shelby counties [Edinburgh]\u201d. View Full Map<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>![](\"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/planning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-23-160821.png\" "\\"Screenshot")
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