Transport for Victoria is a statutory office of the Department of Transport and Planning that is responsible for the planning and coordination of all transport systems in

Victoria, Australia Victoria, commonly abbreviated as Vic, is a state in southeastern Australia. It is the second-smallest state (after Tasmania), with a land area of ; the second-most-populated state (after New South Wales), with a population of over 7 million; ...

. It acts as an umbrella agency for

Public Transport Victoria Public Transport Victoria (PTV) is the brand name for public transport in the Australian state of Victoria. It was previously the trading name of the Public Transport Development Authority (PTDA), a now-defunct statutory authority in Victo ...

(PTV, the statutory authority that manages all public transit in Victoria, including trains, trams and buses) and

VicRoads VicRoads is a government joint venture in the state of Victoria, Australia. In the state, it is responsible for driver licensing and vehicle registration. It is owned and operated through a joint venture between the Victorian government an ...

(the statutory authority that manages Victoria's roads).

History

The formation of Transport for Victoria was jointly announced on 27 June 2016, by Jacinta Allan, Minister for Public Transport, and Luke Donnellan, Minister for Roads. At the time, the

government A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a State (polity), state. In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive (government), execu ...

anticipated that TFV would eventually become a single point of information for travel within Victoria, as well as a coordinating agency for the planning of transport infrastructure. Adam Carey, writing in ''

The Age ''The Age'' is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854. Owned and published by Nine Entertainment, ''The Age'' primarily serves Victoria (Australia), Victoria, but copies also sell in Tasmania, the Austral ...

'', suggested that the new authority would only undermine the role of the then recently established PTV as an umbrella agency. The organization became operational in April 2017 to realise the principal objectives of the Transport Integration Act 2010. At the start of 2019, TFV became part of the newly established

Department of Transport A ministry of transport or transportation is a ministry responsible for transportation within a country. It usually is administered by the ''minister for transport''. The term is also sometimes applied to the departments or other government a ...

Head, Transport for Victoria

The office for the head of Transport for Victoria, officially Head, Transport for Victoria, is a statutory office established under section 64A of the '' Transport Integration Act 2010''. The head plays a key strategic role in ensuring Victoria's growing transport system is integrated and coordinated. After the establishment of Department of Transport, the secretary of

, currently Paul Younis, also holds the position of acting head of TfV. Material was copied from this source, which is available under
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

References

External links

Transport For Victoria website
Government agencies of Victoria (state) Public transport in Melbourne Transport in Victoria (state) 2017 establishments in Australia Intermodal transport authorities in Australia {{VictoriaAU-gov-stub