Vabaduse väljak 10
10146 Tallinn
Estonia
Phone: (372) 640 4618
Fax: (372) 640 4617
E-mail: tta [ät] tallinnlv.ee
Head: Andres Harjo
Main tasks
planning transport in the city, directing, coordinating and
organising its development;
guaranteeing traffic that is free of problems, smooth, as
fast and safe as possible and damages the environment as little
as possible;
coordinating development plans, plans and projects and
their terms of reference;
organising international cooperation in city transport,
incl. activities concerning the European Union;
organising the preparation of surveys and projects in the
area of city transport;
maintaining city transport and traffic registers and any
other registers and databases required for the performance of
the main tasks of the board;
organising the operating activities of the railway and port
facilities belonging to the city and coordinating traffic
between the ports and the land connections located in the
territory of the city;
coordinating the planning, establishment, maintenance and
use of objects of public transport infrastructure and taking
measures for creating favourable traffic conditions for means
of public transport;
determining the standards of the service level of public
transport and guaranteeing that these are observed in
cooperation with carriers;
designing the line network of the city's public transport,
which is connected with the county and nationwide line network;
establishing line routes, stops and schedules;
developing the procedure for the requirements of the
timetables of city lines and their submission, review,
amendment and approval, and approval of timetables;
review of the timetables of the county lines that service
the city and making proposals;
developing public transport tickets and passes and their
prices;
organising the preparation of tickets and passes for the
common public transport ticket system, their distribution,
collection of fees and ticket inspection;
inspecting the technical equipment and maintenance of
public transport stops;
ascertaining the omissions that have occurred in the course
of maintaining road surface on the streets used by public
transport and installing lighting and traffic control devices
or their use;
organising public competitions to select transport
operators for regular public services and entering into public
service contracts with the transport operators according to the
authorisation received from the City Government;
processing applications for passenger transport permits,
line permits, licence cards and other special permits arising
from the main activities of the board; issuing, suspending and
cancelling permits;
organising the provision of taxi services, issuing and
inspecting taxi and activity licences, inspecting adherence to
taxi service rules;
exercising supervision over the performance of the
requirements of passenger transport permits, line permits and
other special permits arising from the activities of the board
and the performance of public service contracts;
financing regular public services on the basis of the
public service contracts from the funds allocated from the city
budget, the state budget and the appropriations made for
specific purposes by organisations;
organising road safety work and traffic education;
organising vehicle parking and inspection of parking;
organising traffic management surveys;
approving applications for temporary closure of traffic on
streets, issuing closure permits and exercising supervision;
approving applications for public events and street
vending;
approving road and street lighting construction and other
projects;
administering the road and street closure tax pursuant to
the Taxation Act, the Local Taxes Act and the road and street
closure tax regulation established by the City Council;
inspecting payment of parking charges, imposing and
collecting penalty charges, performing parking charge
management activities pursuant to the Taxation Act, the Local
Taxes Act and the parking charge regulation established by the
City Council;
coordinating traffic schemes and making proposals for
improvement of traffic schemes;
operational management of traffic in the city with traffic
signs, road markings, traffic lights, barriers and other
traffic control devices, ordering technical traffic control
devices and organising their installation and maintenance;
resolving issues associated with displaying means of
information not required for traffic and approving their
locations;
guaranteeing the functioning of traffic lights and traffic
light control centres;
organising relocation of vehicles parked in a manner that
disturbs or threatens traffic;
developing the legal acts of Tallinn that concern any
issues within the competency of the board;
performance of the tasks arising from the Code of
Misdemeanour Procedure as authorised by the city government;
organising the possession, use and disposal of the
municipal property given to the board for management pursuant
to the procedure stipulated in the legal acts of Tallinn;
The board also performs all other tasks assigned to it in the
legal acts of Tallinn.
