Peru is a unitary semi-presidential republic with a multi-party system with a land area of 1,285,216 km2 (496,225 sq mi) and a population of over 34 million. The Government has established a national urban mobility programme called Promovilidad, which supports medium-sized cities in designing low-emission and more sustainable urban transport systems. Promovilidad provides technical advice to cities in institutional and capacity building, planning and monitoring of investment projects, as well as support for city administrations and civil society in the development of sustainable urban mobility plans.

The Perú National Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning Guidelines (Manual para la Elaboración de un Plan de Movilidad Urbana Sostenible) were published in 2021 and prepared by the Ministerio de Vivienda, Construcción y Saneamiento (Ministry of Housing, Construction and Sanitation). Although they are inspired by the EU Guidelines they draw extensively on the Mexican and Brazilan national guidelines as models. They have been developed to meet the needs of Peruvian cities. For example, the objectives are to improve access to services and ensure affordability of moving around cities according to city size. The guidelines provide a timeframe for preparing a plan (12 months) and place considerable emphasis on consultation with society throughout an eleven-step planning process. They recommend analysing accessibility and they include sample terms of reference for staff required to develop an Urban Mobility Plan. They also place emphasis on the development of mobility indicators and include an Annex devoted to the development of 32 specific urban mobility indicators.