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

2. I C E L A N D r e a 1 3 . k m 2 P o p u l t i n 9 ( 7 ) 6 / 5 4

4. 365 Lyngdalsheiðarvegur

5. 41 Reykjanesbraut

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

13. Car Park 2008 Passenger Cars 197.291 Other Vehicles x30.029
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
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 2007 - 2018
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 2007 – 2010 Main projects

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

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

21. Road budget, 4 years transport plan (price level 2008) – including ca
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)
Maintenance
51,8 €
Operation
7,6 €
Investment
151,3 €

23. Expenditures 2008 (255 million € calculated from ISK Sept 2008)
Maintenance
55,8 €
Operation
9,9 €
PPP
11,7 €
Investment
177,2 €

24. Traffic in Iceland 1975-2006 All roads (million driven km)

25. No of seriously injured per 100 thousand inhabitants in traffic in Iceland in 1975-2007

26. Number of killed per 100 thousand inhabitants in Iceland 1970-2007

28. Number of killed per 100 thousand inhabitants
(Average for the period , Iceland 2003 – 2007).

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

31. Restructering of Iceland Transport Institutions
Proposal from the Icelandic National Audit Office, June 2008
Proposal of new organization

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

35. Next steps 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