Infraestructura para la movilidad urbana en la Ciudad de México

Abstract

In many countries it is increasingly common for people to live in urban environments, just three decades ago the world urban population exceeded the rural population in magnitude, in our country this situation was reached six decades ago. The population increase, together with the economic and productive changes that have encouraged the relocation of economic activities, has triggered a remarkable urban growth that constitutes a serious problem of land consumption and dispersion of human settlements that drive the metropolization process because of the city’s expansion over their neighboring territories and their functional integration. In Mexico, the formation of metropolitan areas began in the middle of the last century, which have played a central role in the country’s urbanization process. 60 years ago, there were 12 conurbation areas in 14 states of the country whose inhabitants represented the fourth of the national population, currently two out of every three inhabitants of the country live in one of the 75 metropolitan areas distributed in the 32 states. The metropolitan area of the Mexico Valley stands out, whose conurbation process currently covers the 16 mayor’s offices of Mexico City, 59 municipalities of the Mexico state and 1 municipality of the Hidalgo state with a combined population of almost 22 million inhabitants distributed in an urban area close to two thousand four hundred square kilometers. However, the territorial overflow of the functional and economic relations of the conurbation municipalities of the Mexico Valley has not been accompanied by public policies for the proper functioning and development of the metropolis, particularly about the planning and regulation of its physical growth, the provision of public services and the care of its environmental. In a timely manner, this paper analyzes the aspects related to the transport operation at the metropolitan level and the infrastructure provision by the Mexico City authorities and the Mexico State that are expected to improve the mobility of the population in the metropolitan area of the Mexico Valley.