Armenia Transport

​Central

The central government is responsible for:

  • Armenia Transport Sector Development Strategy 2020, approved in 2009 ;
  • National Road Safety Strategy for Armenia approved as well in 2009;
  • Efficient and cost-effective transport infrastructure and services for the whole country;
  • Cross-border trade facilitation;
  • Environmentally and socially sustainable transport infrastructure and services
  • Highways and road infrastructure, including road construction;
  • Railway infrastructure;
  • Waterways
  • Three main airports are managed by Armenian International Airports;
  • Civil Aviation;
  • Monitoring frameworks across Road, Maritime, Rail and Air sectors;
  • Road, rail and waterway safety;
  • Most areas of the Armenian transport sector are devolved to private sector bodies overseen by the government.
  • Supporting a competitive market in the transport sector and entrepreneurial endeavours;
  • Promote the development of public-private partnerships;
  • Participates in the development of technical regulations, standards in the field of transport activity;
  • The North-South Program;
  • Routes, timetabling, stops and rates for public transport;
  • Information provision.
     


Regional

Regional bodies (the governors) carry out regional policy determined by central government. Other than fulfilling central level competencies within their area of responsibility, governors are responsible for co-ordinating local authorities (communities) in their region and providing a line of communication between the local and central levels of government.


Local

The Chief of the Community is to:

  • Organize maintenance and operation of roads, bridges and other engineering structures of the community's subordination;
  • Regulate transport operations in the community, organize the operation of transport enterprises and organizations of the community’s subordination;
  • Grant the permit for providing taxicab and fixed-route minivan services in the territory of the community.

 


Responsible ministries/bodies:  Ministry of Transport
 
Sources: Legal Environment in the Field of Transport

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