(Parliamentary) Committee on Transport and Communications
( sv, trafikutskottet) (TU) is a
parliamentary committee
A committee or commission is a body of one or more persons subordinate to a deliberative assembly. A committee is not itself considered to be a form of assembly. Usually, the assembly sends matters into a committee as a way to explore them more ...
in the Swedish
Riksdag
The Riksdag (, ; also sv, riksdagen or ''Sveriges riksdag'' ) is the legislature and the supreme decision-making body of Sweden. Since 1971, the Riksdag has been a unicameral legislature with 349 members (), elected proportionally and se ...
. The committee areas of responsibility concern
roads,
railway, the
sea and
air transport
Aviation includes the activities surrounding mechanical flight and the aircraft industry. ''Aircraft'' includes fixed-wing and rotary-wing types, morphable wings, wing-less lifting bodies, as well as lighter-than-air craft such as hot air ...
,
road traffic safety,
mail services,
telecommunication, and
Information technology (IT) as well as research activities in the field of communication.
The committee's Speaker is
Ulrika Heie
Ulrika Carlsson (born 17 April 1965) is a Swedish Centre Party politician. She has been a member of the Riksdag since 2006 and is elected from the constituency of Västra Götaland County East.
Ulrika is the Swedish Centre Partys spokesperso ...
from the
Centre Party, with
Thomas Morell as the vice-Speaker from the
Sweden Democrats
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.
List of speakers for the committee
List of vice-speakers for the committee
References
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External links
Riksdag - TrafikutskottetRiksdag - Transport and Communications Committee
Committees of the Riksdag