CoR - France Transport

Central level

The central government is responsible for:

The overall legislation;
The elaboration and implementation of transport policy, in cooperation with local authorities (decentralised and contractual planning);
The regulation of standards;
The development of information on the transportation system;
Research aiming at facilitating the objectives of the transportation system;
Urban transport planning (in cooperation with local authorities);
The creation and management of public transportation (in cooperation with local authorities), and
National railways including service provision, technical maintenance and traffic monitoring.
Modernization of the railway sector.
National Road System, including both highways and national roads.
Civil Aviation, including regulation, compliance, oversight and monitoring frameworks, and research.

Regional and intermediate level

Regional authorities are responsible for:

The elaboration of the regional scheme of infrastructure and transports (in cooperation with the State);
Regional transport plans (non-urban transport service, regional railways except in Ile-de-France);
Competences related to civil airports for the authorities that asked so before July 2006;
The ownership, development, maintenance and management of non-autonomous harbours that come under the State, for the authorities that requested this before July 2006;
School Transport (competencies transferred from the Departmental authorities between 2016 and 2017);
Carrying out larger projects financed by public authorities via the State-Region Plan Contract (CPER) in which the State and a region commit to programming and multi-year funding of major transport projects.

Intermediate level

Departmental authorities are responsible for:

passenger transport between towns, departmental roads, departmental railway of local interest;
The maintenance of commercial and fisheries ports;
Competences related to civil airports for the authorities that asked so before July 2006;
The ownership, development, maintenance and management of non-autonomous harbours that come under the State, for the authorities that requested this before July 2006.

Local level

Municipal authorities are responsible for:

School transport (if delegated);
Urban transport of passengers;
Local roads;
Yacht harbours;
Competences related to civil airports for the authorities that asked so before July 2006;The ownership, development, maintenance and management of non-autonomous harbours that come under the State, for the authorities that requested this before July 2006.

Responsible ministries/bodies

Sources

Code de la voirie routière [Code of the Road System]

Law No. 2009-1503 on the organization and regulation of rail transport

Policies Area