Texarkana Urban Transportation Study

Texarkana Urban Transportation Study, doing business as Texarkana MPO, is a U.S. local government entity and metropolitan planning organization that receives federal transportation grants from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to develop regional safety planning and unified transportation work programs.

Texarkana MPO is a locally owned government entity headquartered in Texarkana, Texas, serving the Texarkana, Texas-Arkansas metropolitan area. The organization does not hold federal contracts or participate as a prime contractor on federal contract vehicles. It operates exclusively as a federal grant recipient, not a subcontractor to private vendors or prime contractors.

The organization's federal footprint is concentrated with a single customer agency: the Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration accounts for all four awards in the source data (100% of awards). Recent grant work includes a $360,000 prime grant award from FHWA under the Safe Streets and Roads for All program (CFDA 20.939) announced July 31, 2026, to develop a Texarkana Regional Safety Action Plan, with performance running through July 31, 2028. Texarkana MPO also appears as a sub-recipient on three earlier grants issued to the Texas Department of Transportation, including FY 2025 and FY 2024 MPO Unified Planning Work Program awards (Feb 15, 2025 and Sept 26, 2023). Combined dollars obligated across all four awards total $607 thousand. Activity has been sparse: one award in 2023, two in 2025, and one in 2026. One award reaches completion inside the next twenty-four months, presenting a recompete opportunity in that window.

Texarkana MPO's federal role is narrow and specialized: it functions as a planning organization that receives and administers transportation safety grants at the regional and metropolitan level, not as a vendor or service provider to federal agencies.