Mexico City.– In an evaluation of public transportation conducted by the Mario Molina Center, 31 of 32 cities scored below 60 on a scale of 0 to 100.
The Ranking of Public Transport in Mexican Cities, the results of which were presented this Thursday, takes into account 21 basic indicators.
Among other areas, accessibility is assessed, namely the ease of users in accessing public transportation services to travel; efficiency, referring to the optimal use of resources; safety, in terms of reliability, and sustainability, which measures the impact on the environment. The evaluation includes the first group consisting of 11 cities with a population of less than 900 thousand people and having basic public transport services, as well as the second group consisting of 21 cities with a population of more than 900 thousand people and having a vision of professionalizing public transport.
In the first group, the average score was 47.1, with a maximum score of 60.5, from Villahermosa, and a minimum of 35.2, from Colima.
By evaluation area, the average results were 30.3 points for sustainability, 47.3 for safety, 48.8 for accessibility, and 60.4 for efficiency. The average score for the second group of cities was 41.2, with a maximum score of 57, for Mexico City, and a minimum of 28, for Morelia.
In the accessibility category, the average score was 19, efficiency 39.2, sustainability 41.7, and safety 45.5. When presenting the results, Julieta Leo, Urban Development project leader at the Mario Molina Center, stated that the average age of the vehicle fleet was 9.8 years, just below the end of useful life threshold, which is 10 years. Apart from that, he highlighted, there is an exclusive road for public transportation that is 1.5 kilometers long, even though the desired minimum is 20 kilometers. Director of the project Transition to an Integrated and Smart Public Transport System in Mexico (TranSIT), from the office of the German Cooperation Agency (GIZ) in the country, Isabel Von Griesheim, stated that the issue of transformation is very important in mobility from innovation and sustainability. “It is very important to promote inclusive, accessible, safe and efficient public transportation to build sustainable cities,” he stressed. However, Von Grieshiem said, Mexico’s public transportation system continues to face many challenges, ranging from a lack of adequate planning and limited coverage to a lack of quality of service. The fragmentation implicit in individual concession schemes, he warned, makes organizing and managing public transport difficult.
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