Swedish Transport Administration
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The Swedish Transport Administration (
The agency is a member of the Nordic Road Association.[3] For shipping and aviation, it only does planning and purchasing unprofitable traffic. Trafikverket does not do practical physical work to construct or maintain roads or railways, because that is done by separate companies which Trafikverket write contracts with and pay.
History
A special committee oversaw the effectiveness of the Swedish transport agencies during 2008 and 2009. A conclusion was reached that there would be significant gains compared with the then-present situation if a new agency responsible for long-term planning of the transport system for road, rail, maritime and air traffic was formed. Preparations started in the autumn of 2009, and the new authority began its work on 1 April 2010.
It took over all operations of the
Companies separated from predecessors of Swedish Transport Administration
- Svevia, road construction and maintenance
- Infranord, railway construction and maintenance
- SJ AB, passenger train operator.
- Green Cargo, freight train operator.
- Euromaint, train maintenance, sold to a private owner.
- Jernhusen, owns railway related buildings, mainly railway stations.
- Swedavia, owns major profitable airports (smaller unprofitable airports are normally owned by municipalities and regions)
Other agencies within the transport sector
Many activities have historically been performed by national business agencies such as
- Swedish Maritime Administration, maintains and regulates ship routes.
- Civil Aviation Administration, handles air traffic control and navigation infrastructure
- Swedish Transport Agency(Transportstyrelsen), a different Swedish government agency which handles legal regulation and control over transport operation.
See also
References
- ^ "Trafikverket". Nationalencyklopedin (in Swedish). Retrieved 26 August 2010.
- ISBN 978-91-8045-020-1.
- ^ "Nordiskt vägforum NVF". www.nvfnorden.org. Retrieved 2017-01-06.
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