Ontario. Roads Transportation Office

Identity area

Type of entity

Lower-level Ontario government office (type C)

Authorized form of name

Ontario. Roads Transportation Office

Parallel form(s) of name

    Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules

    • Roads Transportation Office

    Other form(s) of name

      Identifiers for corporate bodies

      Description area

      Dates of existence

      1992-1995

      History

      The Roads Transportation Office, under the direction of the Program Development Branch, was established within the Ministry of Transportation in 1992.

      The Roads Transportation Office was replaced with the Municipal Roads Office in 1995.

      Places

      Legal status

      Functions, occupations and activities

      The Roads Transportation Office administered the Public Transportation and Highway Improvement Act and was responsible for funding programs for the construction and maintenance of municipal roads and bridges.

      The Program Development Section prepared and maintained policies, procedures and directives, assessed subsidy eligibility, managed program planning and training and liaised with client organizations. The Program Management Section allocated municipal funding, monitored in-year expenditures through district and regional offices, developed funding models and related subsidy manuals. The Inventory Management Section administered the provincial highway and municipal road inventory systems as well as data collecting, entering and reporting.

      Address

      Public Transportation and Highway Improvement Act

      Internal structures/genealogy

      General context

      Relationships area

      Related entity

      Ontario. Ministry of Transportation (1987-)

      Identifier of related entity

      AA61

      Category of relationship

      hierarchical

      Type of relationship

      Ontario. Ministry of Transportation controls Ontario. Roads Transportation Office

      Dates of relationship

      1992-1995

      Description of relationship

      Related entity

      Ontario. Municipal Roads Branch (1922-1992)

      Identifier of related entity

      CA1110

      Category of relationship

      temporal

      Type of relationship

      Ontario. Municipal Roads Branch is the predecessor of Ontario. Roads Transportation Office

      Dates of relationship

      Description of relationship

      Access points area

      Subject access points

      Place access points

      Epithet

      Control area

      Authority record identifier

      CA2125

      Institution identifier

      Rules and/or conventions used

      RAD: Rules for Archival Description, 2nd edn (2008)

      Status

      Approved

      Level of detail

      Dates of creation, revision and deletion

      2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM

      Language(s)

        Script(s)

          Sources

          KWIC Index to Government Services 1993-1995

          Maintenance notes

          Archivist(s):
          Birrell