founded 1989 1989 founder government of victoria headquarters 60 denmark street kew victoria australia area served victoria key people john merritt ceo services road safety and road use policy vehicle registration drivers licensing and testing regulation of accident towing net income a 1.63 billion 2007 1 number of employees 2700 parent department of transport website www.vicroads.vic.gov.au vicroads or the roads corporation of victoria is a statutory corporation which is the road and traffic authority in the state of victoria australia . it is responsible for maintenance and construction of the arterial road network as well as driver licensing and vehicle registration . vicroads has broad responsibility for road safety policy and research . it is also responsible for regulating the accident towing industry in victoria . the main vicroads administration is located in the melbourne suburb of kew on the site of the former kew railway station with other melbourne offices in hawthorn burwood and sunshine . regional offices are located in geelong traralgon benalla bendigo and ballarat among others . in addition vicroads operates many offices servicing the public in registration and licensing throughout metropolitan melbourne and regional victoria . 2 contents 1 governance 2 see also 3 references 4 external links governance edit in 1983 the country roads board was replaced by the road construction authority under the former transport act 1983 . in 1989 the road traffic authority was merged with the road construction authority to form the roads corporation trading under the name vicroads . 3 vicroads was re established from 1 july 2010 under the transport integration act 4 which establishes a framework for an integrated and sustainable transport system in victoria and empowers the key victorian government agencies with responsibility for the state s land and water transport system . the act provides that vicroads primary object is to provide operate and maintain the road system consistent with the vision statement in the act and objectives which emphasise transport integration and sustainability . the statute also requires vicroads to ... manage the road system in a manner which supports a sustainable victoria by seeking to increase the share of public transport walking and cycling trips as a proportion of all transport trips in victoria ... 5 in may 2014 john merritt was appointed ceo of vicroads . 6 7 see also edit australian roads portal victoria portal transport integration act accident towing services act australian road rules victoria department of transport director of public transport public transport victoria bus safety act transport act 1983 transport compliance and miscellaneous act 1983 references edit vicroads annual report 2006 2007 pdf . department of transport published october 2007 . 2007 . p. 7 . retrieved 2008 11 16 external link in publisher help http www.vicroads.vic.gov.au vrne vrne5nav.nsf alltitle about vicroads contact us archived november 25 2006 at the wayback machine . http www.vicroads.vic.gov.au vrne vrne5nav.nsf childdocs bb50f530937bb3c9ca256fd300241c84 72f00738926865afca256fe100428355 open archived september 10 2006 at the wayback machine . department of transport transport integration act . transport.vic.gov.au . retrieved 2011 08 08 . transport integration act 2010 pdf . retrieved 2011 08 08 . vicroads 16 april 2014 . new chief executive for vicroads press release . victorian government . archived from the original on 2 august 2015 . epa victoria 16 april 2014 . epa ceo john merritt moves to vicroads press release . victorian government . archived from the original on 2 august 2015 . external links edit official website vicroads office locations transport integration act department of transport official site vicroads official twitter vicroads customer service on facebook v t e road transport in victoria highways in victoria highways in melbourne alphanumeric road routes in victoria old road 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