it discusses recent projects and achievements in this direction considers the challenges in building a coherent policy framework for the zmvm and offers some recommendations based on international good practice a final section addresses the mexico citytoluca train project and the new mexico city international airport central to achieving this is building a strong metropolitan coordination structure for mobility planning and implementation aligning private and public actors to achieve consistency across policies and projects moving away from reactive actions and developing longterm planning capacity and assigning human and financial resources to generate the right technical expertise for the kind of policies that are coherent with new priorities