Icelandic Country Report. Transport Administration Restructuring

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1 Icelandic Country Report and ideas of Transport Administration Restructuring Dr. Hreinn Haraldsson Director General Icelandic Road Administration

2 66 1 / / / /2 ICELAND 65 Area km 2 Population (Capital area ) / / /2 141 /2 19

3 Classification : Primary Roads 4230 km Secondary Roads 4003 km Mountain Tracks 2576 km County Roads 2225 km Ferries 264 km Total km

4 365 Lyngdalsheiðarvegur

5 41 Reykjanesbraut

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8 Number of employees

9 Different roles Road plans, design, tendering, supervision Operation and service of the roadsystem Ferries, Public Transport & Air subsidies Taxi-drivers Control axel load, vehicle dimensions oil (taxed / tax-free) km-based taxes of heavy vehicles rest-time/driving time

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13 Car Park 2008 Passenger Cars Other Vehicles x Total Passenger cars per persons xxx.658

14 Transport 2006 Passenger Goods Car / Truck 97,3 % 66,0 % Sea x0,2 % 33,9 % Air x2,5 % x 0,5 %

15 12 year transportation plan Revised every 4th year. We have now started to prepare strategy for year transportation plan Revised every 2nd year. We are revising and adding

16 Political priorities, new constructions The Capital area - New traffic routes - Interchanges on heavily trafficated intersections -Noise Roads out of the Capital area - Increase the capacity - Increase the safety Tunnels - Replace surface mountain roads - Decrease travel time within service and school areas - Traffic safety

17 Road plan Main projects

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19 Sources of income 2007 (204 million ) Extra funds for tunnels from the Treasury 19,7 10% 21% Extra funds from the Treasury 43,6 37% 5% 27% Diesel oil tax 55,3 Petrol tax 74,0 Earmarked income total 69 % 0% Other 0,1 Km tax 11,2

20 Sources of income 2008 (249 million ) Extra funds for tunnels from the Treasury 28,8 Extra funds from the Treasury 97,7 12% 39% 25% Petrol tax 61,8 Earmarked income total 49 % 0% Other 0,1 4% 20% Km tax 10,7 Diesel oil tax 50,3

21 Road budget, 4 years transport plan (price level 2008) including ca. 10 % PPP from 2009 Thousand millions ISK

22 Expenditures 2007 (211 million calculated from ISK Sept 2008) Operation 7,6 25% Maintenance 51,8 4% 71% Investment 151,3

23 Expenditures 2008 (255 million calculated from ISK Sept 2008) Operation 9,9 4% 22% Maintenance 55,8 PPP 11,7 5% 69% Investment 177,2

24 Traffic in Iceland All roads (million driven km) eknir milljón km

25 No of seriously injured per 100 thousand inhabitants in traffic in Iceland in

26 18 Number of killed per 100 thousand inhabitants in Iceland

27 45,0 40,0 35,0 30,0 25,0 20,0 15,0 10,0 5,0 0,0 Number of killed per million km driven in Iceland

28 USA 12,13 14,73 Number of killed per 100 thousand inhabitants (Average for the period , Iceland ). 10,84 11,00 7,40 7,53 7,61 7,67 5,65 5,67 5,81 5,92 Netherlands Sweden Great Britain Norway Iceland Denmark Finland Germany New Zealand France Spain 16,00 14,00 12,00 10,00 8,00 6,00 4,00 2,00 0,00

29 Iceland and NRA Iceland vill be the leading country for the Nordic Road Association in the period Iceland will during the same period represent the Nordic countries in the Executive Committee of PIARC Iceland will also at the same time be the first contact point towards BRA, The Baltic Road Association

30 Restructering of Iceland Transport Institutions Proposal from the Icelandic National Audit Office, June 2008 Present organization Ministry of Transport Icelandic Road Administration Road Traffic Directorate Icelandic Civil Aviation Admin. ISAVIA Ltd Icelandic Maritime Admin.

31 Restructering of Iceland Transport Institutions Proposal from the Icelandic National Audit Office, June 2008 Proposal of new organization Ministry of Transport Transport Administration Directorate Transport Management Administration State Transport Company

32 Restructering of Iceland Transport Institutions Proposal from the Icelandic National Audit Office, June 2008 Transport Administration Directorate Preparing laws and rules concerning transport and traffic safety Control Issuing permissions & licences Research in safety subjects Standardization

33 Restructering of Iceland Transport Institutions Proposal from the Icelandic National Audit Office, June 2008 Transport Management Administration Preparation of Transport plans - policy making - comparison of alternatives - prioritizing - pre-design - first cost-estimates Management of Transport Plans - design - tendering - contracts - construction supervision

34 Restructering of Iceland Transport Institutions Proposal from the Icelandic National Audit Office, June 2008 State Transport Company Ltd. Operation and maintainance of transport infrastructure and related systems and equipments

35 Restructering of Iceland Transport Institutions Proposal from the Icelandic National Audit Office, June 2008 Next steps The minister of Transport has not declaired if he supports these proposals More detailed background work must be performed before a final decision is made, to find out if these changes are really beneficial A decesion on go or not to go will probably be taken before the end of 2008 Reorganisation would probably take some years, but no time frame has been given