Swedish Transport Administration

Not to be confused with the regulatory agency Swedish Transport Agency.

Trafikverket

Company type| Government agency
Predecessors| Swedish Rail Administration
Swedish Road Administration
Swedish Institute for Transport and Communications Analysis
Founded| 1 April 2010[1]
Headquarters|

Borlänge

Sweden

Key people

| Roberto Maiorana (Director General)

Number of employees

| 9185 (2021)[2]
Parent| Ministry of Infrastructure
Website| www.trafikverket.se

The Swedish Transport Administration (Swedish: Trafikverket) is a government agency in Sweden, controlled by the Riksdag and the Government of Sweden. It is responsible for long-term infrastructure planning for transport: road, rail, shipping and aviation. It owns, constructs, operates and maintains all state-owned roads and railways and operates many car ferry services.

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[edit]

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 Swedish Road Administration and the Swedish Rail Administration, as well as parts of the Swedish Maritime Administration, Civil Aviation Administration and the Swedish Institute for Communications Analysis, except that some practical operations were transferred to new commercial companies. These companies do road and railway building and maintenance, airport operations etc.

### Companies separated from predecessors of Swedish Transport Administration[edit]

* 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[edit]

Many activities have historically been performed by national business agencies such as SJ, Swedish Rail Administration and Swedish Road Administration. These agency activities has been taken over by the Swedish Transport Administration or by these agencies, if they weren't given to companies.

* 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[edit]

* Riksdag
* Swedish Transport Administration electric road program

## References[edit]

1. ^ "Trafikverket". Nationalencyklopedin (in Swedish). Retrieved 26 August 2010.
2. ^ Swedish Transport Administration (2022). Trafikverkets årsredovisning 2021 (Report) (in Swedish). Trafikverket. p. 12\. ISBN 978-91-8045-020-1.
3. ^ "Nordiskt vägforum NVF". www.nvfnorden.org. Retrieved 2017-01-06.

## External links[edit]

* Official website

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Railway infrastructure companies

Africa|

* Algeria
* Anesrif

Asia|

* Japan
* Japan Railway Construction, Transport and Technology Agency
* Kōbe Rapid Transit Railway
* South Korea
* Korea National Railway
* Iran
* Railway Services and Technical Construction Engineering Company

Europe|

* Austria
* ÖBB-Infrastruktur
* Belarus
* Belarusian Railway
* Belgium
* Infrabel
* Bulgaria
* NRIC
* Croatia
* HZ Infrastruktura
* Czech Republic
* Správa železnic
* Denmark
* Banedanmark
* Estonia
* EVR Infra
* France
* SNCF Réseau, Getlink
* Finland
* Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency
* Germany
* DB InfraGO
* Greece
* Hellenic Railways Organisation
* Hungary
* Magyar Államvasutak
* Ireland
* Iarnród Éireann Infrastructure
* Italy
* Rete Ferroviaria Italiana
* Latvia
* Latvian Railways
* Lithuania
* Lithuanian Railways
* Montenegro
* ŽICG
* Netherlands
* NS Railinfratrust, ProRail, Infraspeed
* Norway
* Bane NOR
* Poland
* PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe
* PKP Linia Hutnicza Szerokotorowa
* Infra Silesia
* Portugal
* Infraestruturas de Portugal
* Romania
* Compania Națională de Căi Ferate CFR
* Russia
* Russian Railways
* Slovakia
* Railways of Slovak Republic – ŽSR
* Slovenia
* SŽ-Infrastruktura
* Spain
* Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias
* Sweden
* Swedish Transport Administration
* Switzerland
* SBB Bahninfrastruktur
* Ukraine
* Ukrainian Railways
* United Kingdom
* Great British Railways, Network Rail, NI Railways

Oceania|

* Australia
* Arc Infrastructure
* Aurizon
* Australian Rail Track Corporation
* Queensland Rail
* TasRail
* Transport Asset Holding Entity
* VicTrack
* New Zealand
* KiwiRail Network

America|

* Argentina
* ADIFSE

Authority control databases

International|

* ISNI
* VIAF

National|

* Norway
* United States
* Sweden

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