Overview
- The new decentralized agency supplants the Railway Transport Regulatory Agency (ARTF) and is sectorized under the Infrastructure, Communications and Transport Ministry (SICT).
- Governance shifts to a board of eight federal secretaries with voting rights, while Director General Andrés Lajous remains in charge with voice but no vote and is appointed by the President.
- ATTRAPI inherits and expands regulatory roles, including processing concessions, supervising compliance, maintaining the national rail registry, following up on accidents and regulating tariffs where there is no effective competition.
- The agency can contract federal public works for tracks, yards, workshops, depots, stops, stations and terminals, which must meet functionality, accessibility, safety, connectivity and multimodality criteria.
- It is tasked with delivering a 3,000‑kilometre passenger rail program, beginning with AIFA–Pachuca (57 km), Mexico City–Querétaro (226 km), Querétaro–Irapuato (108 km) and Saltillo–Monterrey–Nuevo Laredo (396 km).