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 City-Toluca train project and the New Mexico City International Airport. Central to achieving this is building a strong metropolitan co-ordination 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 long-term 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.