Improving urban transportation in Mexico City

Improvement of the environment is one of the main tasks of the government in Mexico City District. A large part of the emissions results hem the traffic in the city with heavy congestion during the peak hours. After analyzing the existing situation a cost-benefit-model was set up to evaluate different measures to improve the transport conditions in the city by a) general policies to reduce car use and to shift car use to public transport, b) concrete measures to improve the public transport system and c) measures to improve the technology. The concrete measures are planned for the "Calzone De La Viga", an important, 8 km long road from the south of the city to the center. Because of the present state of the project the cost-benefit-model, the results and the conclusions for other metropolitan areas in developing countries will be presented at the CODATU World Conference in April 2000.