Within the framework of the Ruta México Forum , the panel “Comprehensive and Participatory Mobility: Plan México” was held. The panel addressed the main challenges of urban mobility, its relationship to the country’s economic development , and the strategic role of Plan México in strengthening the national industry and promoting electromobility.
Rodolfo Osorio, head of Electromobility at the Ministry of Economy , noted that Plan Mexico is a strategic tool for opening up the entire ecosystem : from the automotive industry and public transportation to charging infrastructure; and he emphasized the urgency of strengthening a national industrial policy and developing electric bus production capacity in Mexico.
“Our fleet is very old, very obsolete, and highly polluting. Therefore, it is essential to promote our domestic companies to position ourselves as a regional benchmark in the production of electric buses,” he noted.
For his part, Roberto Gottfried, CEO and co-founder of Megaflux , stated that Plan Mexico demands “big visions, but also big results” and mentioned the Tago Project , the first national electric bus and the result of the work of two Mexican companies: Dina and Megaflux.
“Just look at what the fastest-growing economies in the world have done around the energy transition. They’ve used it as their country’s greatest engine of economic growth,” he noted.
Santiago Alanis, electromobility leader at Mobility ADO , also gave a thumbs-up to Plan Mexico and its approach of “putting people at the center .” He identified three key factors for its success: long-range operational timelines, comprehensive financing mechanisms, and effective coordination between levels of government and the public sector.
However, Bernardo Baranda, Latin American director of the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) , emphasized that the success of mobility depends not only on what , but also on how . He proposed viewing it as a tool to improve accessibility and reduce the economic, time, and energy costs of travel.
“More than just more infrastructure, we need to see how it’s going to be built, how it integrates into the urban environment. We need a policy that reuses urban land, promotes central areas, and increases density,” he said.
Roadmap for mobility
At the close of the panel, participants presented some mobility strategies for implementation in Plan Mexico, such as the integration of applications to facilitate intermodal travel, rapid fleet replacement and design of routes adapted to demand , use of prepaid information and control centers to monitor capacity, detect bottlenecks and anticipate failures, and the transformation of transport stations into mini- development hubs with housing.
The panel concluded with a call to resume integrated transportation systems , launch pilot governance models, and implement the National Electric Mobility Strategy, supported by tax incentives and regulatory improvements.
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