Swedish Road Administration
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| Former type | Government agency |
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| Successor(s) | Swedish Transport Administration |
| Founded | 1 April 1983 |
| Defunct | 31 March 2010 |
| Headquarters | Borlänge, Sweden |
| Area served | Sweden |
The Swedish Road Administration (Swedish: Vägverket) was a government agency in Sweden. Its primary responsibility was to organise building and maintenance of the road network in Sweden. Its headquarters were located in Borlänge.
[edit] History
The Swedish Road Administration was founded in 1841 as The Royal Board for Public Road and Water Structures (Swedish: Kongliga styrelsen för allmänna wäg- och wattenbyggnader) and was responsible for Sweden's canals and roads.
In 2009 the responsibility for the vehicle register and issuing of drivers' licenses,[1] was moved to a new authority, Transportstyrelsen. At the same time the department for the actual road work was separated from Vägverket into a government owned company, called Svevia. For a number of year this department, then called Vägverket Produktion, was a profit-making organisation competing with private companies.
The agency was merged with the Swedish Rail Administration (Banverket) on 1 April 2010 to create the new Swedish Transport Administration (Trafikverket).
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