​Transport

The central Government is responsible for:

• Design and implementation of the transport policy;
• Development of infrastructure for all modes of transportation;
• Organising, coordinating, and overseeing the implementation of the transport system;
• Shaping the public policy on the carriage of passengers and freight by rail, road, sea, inland waterways, and air;
• Drafting the public policy in the areas of combined transportation, transport transit, and logistics;
• Development of national transport strategies;
• Traffic safety for all types of transport;
• Management of the state sea port in Klaipeda as well as state‑owned airports Vilnius International Airport, Kaunas Airport and Palanga International Airport.

Local authorities are responsible for:

• Planning of the infrastructure;
• Maintenance, reparation, surfacing of local roads and streets as well as organisation of traffic safety;
• Organisation of transportation for passengers passing the local routes, calculation and payment of compensations for passengers using the preferential transportation.
• Licensing of the local public transportation routes;
• Organisation of free of charge transportation to schools for school-aged children living in the rural areas.