Maputo, capital of Mozambique, sees the condition of displacement and urban accessibility worsens as it grows its metropolitan area. More than technological solutions or implementation of modal, it is necessary to review the legal instruments and restructuring of the institutional arrangement in the field of urban management. This work proposes a brief discussion on the process of decentralization policy and municipalisation taken in Mozambique and revisits its urban planning process, it intends to relate this set of processes with the approach taken by the governments that acted in Maputo Metropolitan Area and propose some subsidies for the improvement of public transport policies in the country. Thus, as in other metropolitan areas of Mozambique, the Urban Planning and Mobility sector in Maputo calls for a regional-metropolitan institutional arrangement to allow a better coordination in the urban mobility field.
institutional arrangement; urban mobility; urban planning