The State Administration Database

Department of Public Roads, Urban Mobility and Traffic Safety

This page shows the event history for this unit.

01.01.1991* Founding by complex reorganization

Name: Department of Public Roads and Rail Transport
Short name: Avd. miljø og kollektiv
Affiliations: Ministry
Hierarchical level: Division
Located: 301 Oslo

01.01.1999* Change of name

Name: Department of Public Roads and Rail Transport
Short name: Avdeling for veg og miljø

01.04.2003* Maintenance by reorganization

Please note that this event has comments in Norwegian that are for the present not translated into English.

01.04.2003* Change of name

Name: Department of Public Roads and Rail Transport
Short name: VB

07.03.2011* Change of name

Name: * Roads and Road Safety Department
Short name: Veg- og trafikksikkerhetsavdelingen

07.03.2011 Maintenance by secession

Separated bodies from this unit:

Please note that this event has comments in Norwegian that are for the present not translated into English.

01.01.2019* Change of name

Name: Department of Public Roads, Urban Mobility and Traffic Safety
Short name: VBT

The Road Section is responsible for planning, construction, operation and maintenance of our state highways and has overall responsibility for the governance of The Norwegian Public Roads Administration. The section is responsible for toll financing and for state highway ferries. The Road Safety Section is responsible for the Ministry’s work with traffic safety on roads and has administrative responsibility for road traffic legislation. The Urban Section’s responsibility includes the Ministry’s work with urban environment and urban area growth agreements, state part-financing of large public transport projects, toll road fee packages in urban areas and land use policy, public transport, environment and technology development which is relevant to urban areas. International work relating to land use and transport planning in towns and cities are also among the section’s work assignments.
Source: regjeringen.no, january 2019

Remarks

* = If a date is denoted with an asterisk (*), this implies that the date is not confirmed.

* = If a name is denoted with an asterisk (*), this implies a direct translation from Norwegian to English. The translation is thus not necessarily the official one (if any exists at all).

Comment to the change-of-name event: Sometimes the old and new name is the same. This occur when the translation to English haven’t taken into consideration minor Norwegian name change.