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Ahighway authority is agovernment organization responsible forpublic roads.
TheNational Highways Authority of India is the national authority for the management of a network of over 60,000 km of national highways in India. The Authority is a part of the Ministry of Shipping, Road Transport and Highways.
Lembaga Lebuhraya Malaysia (LLM) orMalaysian Highway Authority is a government agency under the Malaysian Ministry of Works. The agency was founded in 1980 to build the North-South Expressway, but now the main function of Malaysian Highway Authority is to monitor the works and administration of expressways in Malaysia as subject to Federal Roads Act (Private Managements) 1984.
TheNational Highway Authority is responsible for building and maintaining highways and motorways in Pakistan.
ThePuntland Highway Authority is a government body, established by law no. 18, in the year 2000, in charge of road transportation and infrastructure and responsible for maintaining and developing the road network throughout in the autonomous state of Puntland.
In theUnited Kingdom a highway authority is an organisation that is responsible for the maintenance of public roads. The current role of a highway authority is defined in theHighways Act 1980 and the role is held by a large number of different groups.
In England, Scotland, and Wales the highway authorities fortrunk roads (which include mostmotorways) are, respectively, 'National Highways', 'Transport Scotland', and theWelsh Government.[1][2][3]
For all other roads and public rights of way, the highway authority is usually thecounty council orunitary authority for a particular area.District councils may carry out some of the functions of a highway authority, but only when these have been delegated to them by their county council. Transport for London is the highway authority for all Greater London Authority roads (under the Highways Act 1980).[citation needed]
Duties of the highway authorities can include:
In the U.S., a highway authority is now usually called adepartment of transportation, owing to the expanded responsibility formass transport likepassenger rail and evenairports andferry service. SomeU.S. states also have separate highway authorities fortoll roads, sometimes the responsibility of aregional government ormetropolitan government rather than astate government.
For example, theIllinois State Toll Highway Authority is an instrumentality and administrative agency of the State ofIllinois. The Authority has the power to collect and raise tolls, and is responsible for the maintenance and construction of tollway roads and relatedsignage (includingelectronic message boards, used for driving-time notices,Amber alerts, and other notifications). The Authority also supervises and manages the sevenIllinois Tollway oases (rest areas). TheIllinois DOT manages otherstate roads.
The National Road Construction Treasury (gr: Ταμείο Εθνικής Οδοποιίας) was in charge of the maintenance and operation of the national road network and the highway network until their gradual privatization by highway with the concession contract method at the end of the 2000s. Then it had under its responsibilities the undersea tunnel of Preveza-Aktio and the Malgara toll station. In 2013 it merged with state-owned company Egnatia Odos SA.
