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Creation of the Trains and Integrated Public Transport Agency

22 January 2026

Cargo train platform at sunset with container, Trains, Railway

The railway sector (freight and passengers) is a priority area for national development. For this reason, and as a result of the 2025 railway reforms, the Railway Transport Regulatory Agency (as the previous authority) was repealed and the Trains and Integrated Public Transport Agency (“ATTRAPI”) was created to assume its resources, files, and powers related to railway matters, integrated transportation, and related issues. ATTRAPI has technical and managerial autonomy, granting it broader powers.

In this regard, ATTRAPI’s responsibilities will include regulating and supervising railway matters, as well as planning, designing, constructing, operating, conducting research, and imposing sanctions on various private and public actors. The goal of creating ATTRAPI is to expand the railway network and, at the same time, modernize public passenger transport systems across the country. To achieve this, both the public and private sectors will be involved, which will include: (i) market research, (ii) the upcoming publication of public procurement procedures, and (iii) analyses and reviews to determine the viability of projects that will receive input from various ministries and entities for the development of the Mexican Railway System.

In due course, it will be important to analyze the possible delegation of powers through the publication of ATTRAPI’s organic statute, as well as the resolution of the various administrative matters pending from the previous authority, which will now be handled by ATTRAPI.

At Hogan Lovells, we are ready to support this new regulatory phase in the railway sector, which will involve the private sector across different areas in the modernization of the industry in the country.

Authored by Juan F. Torres Landa, Arturo Tiburcio, Giovanni Sosa, Julio Zugasti, Adriana Pavón and Reneé Penhos.