Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport

This article is about the modern German government agency. For the historic ministry prior the founding of the Federal Republic, see Reich Ministry of Transport.

Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure

Bundesministerium für Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur (BMVI)
Agency overview
Formed	20 September 1949
Jurisdiction	Government of Germany
Headquarters	Invalidenstraße 44, Berlin 52°31′46.58″N 13°22′42.10″E
Employees	1,300
Annual budget	€41.154 billion (2021)
Minister responsible	Andreas Scheuer, Federal Minister of Transport and Digital Infrastructure
Website	http://www.bmvi.de

Second office in Bonn

The Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (Template:Lang-de), abbreviated BMVI, is a cabinet-level ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany. Its main office is located in Berlin, while the majority of its civil servants and employees work in Bonn, the secondary seat.

The Ministry itself has about 1300 employees. At the top is the Federal Minister, and there are two Parliamentary Secretaries, who are also Member of the Bundestag, and two civil servant undersecretaries. The ministry oversees 63 downstream agencies and authorities where around 25,000 people work

The agency was formed through the merger of the former Federal Ministry of Transport and the Federal Ministry of Regional Planning, Building and Urban Development, both established in 1949. The merged ministry was at first named Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Housing until it adopted the name Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development (BMVBS) in 2005. The current BMVI originated by renaming the BMVBS through an organizational decree by the Merkel III Cabinet on December 17, 2013.

Responsibilities

The ministry, together with its subordinate agencies, is responsible for all federal portfolio tasks which touch the mobility of people, goods, servies and data.

The responsibilities extends to the federal transport infrastructure (Autobahn, federal motorways, railway networks, waterways and air traffic) as well as to the widespread availability of modern broadband networks across Germany. Hence, the ministry develops legal policies and ensures the safety of the modes of transport, respectively. Additionally, it ensures the seamless planning and fincancing of investments for maintenance and development of infrastructures.

The main focus in the field of digital infrastructure is a comprehensive supply of fast Internet with a transmission speed of at least 50 Mbps). Another task is to modernise mobility (alternative fuels, interconnected and intelligent transport system). This includes, e.g., the establishment of 'Digitales Testfeld Autobahn' to test innovative vehicle technologies. The ministry is also responsible for the Galileo satellite navigation system and the Copernicus Programme of the European Union.

Agencies

Subordinate agencies include:

• German Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation
• Federal Bureau for Maritime Casualty Investigation
• The Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (German: Bundesamt für Seeschiffahrt und Hydrographie (BSH)) located in St. Pauli, Hamburg, provides among other things information of all matters of maritime shipping, to special funding programmes, law of flag, certification of mariners and information of the coasts and coastal waters of Germany.

Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure

Main article: List of German transportation ministers

See also

• Internet in Germany
• Transport in Germany

External links

• Official Web site (English)
• Official Web site (German)