CTS-México is the premier Mexican NGO dealing with issues of sustainable transport and urban development. Our mission is to catalyze sustainable mobility solutions that improve the quality of life in Mexican cities. We view transport systems holistically, moving beyond the basic (if complex) technical aspects of the system to analyze other important factors relevant to public transport, such as integration of different transport modes (e.g. bus, walking paths, bikes, subway, etc.), environmental impacts, health impacts, mobility equity, citizen quality of life, public policy issues and so forth.
We want to change the paradigm of urban development in Mexico City: making cities for people and not for cars. We expect that promoting more efficient urban development patterns and more sustainable transportation options (walking, bicycling, and public transit) will reduce CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions and improve local air quality and, therefore, the citizens’ quality of life.
CTS-Mexico was established as a program within the Centro Interdisciplinario de Biodiversidad y Ambiente, A.C. in 2002 by EMBARQ-World Resources Institute (WRI) with financial support from the Shell Foundation (SF). Since its founding in 2002, CTS- México provided critical technical support enabling the construction of Mexico City and Guadalajara’s first Bus Rapid Transit Lines, conducted a national-level policy analysis of various strategies for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from transport (MEDEC), retrofitted 20 public transit buses to reduce particulate and other emissions, studied the potential application of 14 different emissions-reducing technologies to Mexican public transit, and has been contracted by the Federal Government as an expert technical advisor to Mexico’s first transit infrastructure investment fund, FONADIN.
