The federal government formalized the creation of the Agency for Trains and Integrated Public Transport (ATTRAPI) , with which it will seek to strengthen the capabilities and bolster the planning and development of the railway sector in Mexico .
Through the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) , it was specified that the new agency’s responsibilities include planning and constructing railway infrastructure , as well as regulating and managing the development and operation of the Mexican Railway System. This strengthens the agency’s capacity to build tracks, operate, regulate, manage, and provide public rail transport services.
Furthermore, it will carry out the procedures for contracting public works such as roads, yards, workshops, garages, bus stops, stations, and federal terminals. These latter projects must consider criteria of functionality, accessibility, safety, connectivity, and multimodality.
The agency will also have the ability to plan, design, build, and supervise public works of urban infrastructure , public passenger transport, and interventions in public space at the request of and in collaboration with municipalities and states.
In this sense, under an integrated vision, it will be able to develop studies for the analysis of public passenger transport systems in terms of operation and interconnection.
It will also promote and encourage multimodality and integration of public passenger transport systems at the request of and in collaboration with the municipalities and states of the Republic.
ATTRAPI will continue the project proposed by the current federal administration to build three thousand kilometers of new passenger rail lines .
The Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) specified that ATTRAPI was created as a decentralized body of the Federal Public Administration and under the purview of the Ministry of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation (SICT) .
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