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The State Administration Database

Department of Public Roads, Urban Mobility and Traffic Safety

This page shows the event history for this unit.

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

1991-01-01 00:00:00.0 * Founding by complex reorganization

Name
Department of Public Roads and Rail Transport

Short name
Avd. miljø og kollektiv

Affiliations
Ministry

Hierarchical level
Division

Superior body
Ministry of Transport and Communications

Located
301 Oslo

1999-01-01 00:00:00.0 * Change of name

Name
Department of Public Roads and Rail Transport

Short name
Avdeling for veg og miljø

2003-04-01 00:00:00.0 * Maintenance by reorganization

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

2003-04-01 00:00:00.0 * Change of name

Name
Department of Public Roads and Rail Transport

Short name
VB

2011-03-07 00:00:00.0 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

2011-03-07 00:00:00.0 * Change of name

Name
* Roads and Road Safety Department

Short name
Veg- og trafikksikkerhetsavdelingen

2019-01-01 00:00:00.0 * 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