Regional planning and operations architectures as means to foster transportation integration in the Mexico City Metropolitan Area

The MCMA complexity in political, institutional, economical, and jurisdictional terms has resulted in limited coordination between MCMA authorities that in conjunction with the limited role of metropolitan transportation authorities have created the need for innovative institutional cooperation in order to meet the MCMA's transportation needs. The ready applicability of the extensive research conducted at MIT in regional strategic transportation planning in general and in regional architectures in particular has motivated this exploration of how the current MCMA institutional arrangements can be improved. The concept of regional architectures provides a framework that explicitly addresses the interaction between transportation institutions and therefore can serve as a framework to help solve the institutions shortcomings of MCMA transportation planning and operations. In addition, regional architectures can assist MCMA institutions to better align their roles and responsibilities with the transportation goals of the region. The purpose of this thesis is to propose a new Regional Planning Architecture (RPA) that would describe the fundamental relationships between transportation authorities in providing metropolitan transportation planning and a new Regional Operations Architecture (ROA) that would describe the fundamental relationships between transportation authorities in providing metropolitan transportation operations. In addition, this thesis explores how these architectures can influence modal integration in the MCMA transportation system.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2005

Author dc:creator

• Ortiz Mantilla, Bernardo Jose, 1977-

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Joseph M. Sussman.

• Civil and Environmental Engineering.

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• M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/31144

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/31144