Our aim is to promote the efficient functioning of the traffic system as a whole, to improve transport safety and to contribute to a balanced and sustainable development of the regions.

The Finnish Transport Agency is a government agency operating under the Ministry of Transport and Communications, and it is responsible for maintaining and developing the standard of service in the transport system’s traffic lanes overseen by the government.

 Our responsibilities are:

• to maintain and develop the traffic system jointly with the other actors in the field;
• to maintain the government’s road and rail networks as well as the waterways under our control and to consolidate measures directed at them and directing and supervising waterways maintenance all over the country;
• to implement vital road projects and to plan, design, maintain and construct railroads and waterways;
• to direct the road maintenance operations of the regional centres for economic development, transport and the environment ;
• to participate in reconciling traffic and land use;
• to control and develop traffic management in the government’s traffic lanes and in the waterways;
• to ensure winter navigation;
• to develop and promote transport services and the functioning of the markets for them;
• to improve the performance of  transport infrastructure management;
• to develop the operational preconditions for public transport and to grant maritime subsidies and subsidies for the other transport modes;
• to update and develop hydrography;
• to safeguard that the transport system is working also under abnormal conditions and in exceptional situations under normal conditions.