Large investments in metro systems, supported through a Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) regime, have become the preferred policy option to achieve sustainable and inclusive urban mobility in India. In this paper, we examine the particular practices and power relations through which metro-TOD policies have emerged and gained discursive dominance in India’s urban transport policies. We do so by bringing together urban policy mobilities (UPM) and argumentative discourse analysis (ADA) to conceptualize (im)mobility as the intense movement of specific discursive framings to the exclusion of others. Our analysis brings out the crucial role played by Urban Mobility India (UMI), an annual conference organized by the Indian federal government, in the (im)mobility of metro-TOD policies across Indian cities. We contribute to the growing literature on the power-laden nature of policy circulation in the Global South and address concerns regarding lack of analytical attention to marginalized policy pathways and immobile elements of mobile policies in UPM literature. We argue that policy mobility scholars can move beyond the analytical binaries of mobile/immobile policies by drawing upon the concepts of ADA which allow close examination of the discursive politics at play in policy related conferences. By studying the intra-national (im)mobility of metro-TOD policies in India, we expand the bounds of UPM literature towards a geography that has received limited attention thus far.

在以公交为导向的发展 (TOD) 制度的支持下，对地铁系统的大量投资已成为印度实现可持续和包容性城市交通的首选政策选择。在本文中，我们研究了地铁-TOD 政策出现并在印度城市交通政策中占据主导地位的特定实践和权力关系。我们通过将城市政策流动性 (UPM) 和论证性话语分析 (ADA) 结合起来来概念化(im) 流动性来实现这一目标作为特定话语框架的激烈运动，以排斥其他框架。我们的分析揭示了由印度联邦政府组织的年度会议 Urban Mobility India (UMI) 在印度城市地铁 TOD 政策的（非）流动性方面发挥的关键作用。我们为越来越多的关于全球南方政策流通的权力负载性质的文献做出了贡献，并解决了对芬欧汇川文献中对边缘化政策途径和移动政策的不可移动元素缺乏分析关注的担忧。我们认为，政策流动性学者可以通过借鉴 ADA 的概念来超越流动/固定政策的分析二元对立，这些概念允许仔细研究政策相关会议中发挥作用的话语政治。