The Commonwealth of Virginia maintains one of the nation’s most comprehensive and advanced statewide aviation systems consisting of 66 public-use airports across the Commonwealth. This includes Dulles International and Reagan National airports. The Virginia Department of Aviation’s mission is to cultivate an advanced aviation system that is safe, secure and provides for economic development; promote aviation awareness and education; and provide the safest and most efficient flight services for the Commonwealth’s leadership and state agencies.

(DMV) serves 6.3 million licensed drivers and ID cardholders with over 8.4 million registered vehicles. DMV also serves a wide array of businesses, including dealers, fuels tax customers, trucking companies, rental companies, driving schools, other state agencies, local governments, and non-profit organizations.

DMV’s responsibilities include vehicle titling and registration, driver licensing, and maintenance of driver and vehicle records. The agency also collects Virginia's fuel tax, monitors the state's trucking industry, and serves as Virginia's Highway Safety Office. In addition, DMV effectively enforces motoring and transportation-related tax laws and efficiently collects and distributes transportation-related revenues.

DMV operates 75 customer service centers, 14 DMV Connect mobile teams, 13 permanent motor carrier service centers (weigh stations), 13 mobile weigh crews, a customer contact center, and a website that offers more than 50 transactions. In addition, DMV partners with local governments and private entities to operate 57 DMV Select offices.

The Motor Vehicle Dealer Board (MVDB) is dedicated to regulation and oversight of the new and used car and truck dealer industry. The Board’s responsibilities also include the licensing and regulatory responsibility for recreational vehicles, motorcycles, and trailer dealers from DMV to MVDB.

The Office of Intermodal Planning and Investment encourages the coordination of multimodal and intermodal planning across the various transportation options within Virginia. Oversees the SMART SCALE program, which is an objective means for selecting and allocating capitol transportation improvements throughout the Commonwealth.

Office of Transportation Innovation

Virginia realizes that embracing innovation and coordinating technological advances across transportation agencies will provide efficiencies, economic synergy and a platform for harnessing research and emerging business technology in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

The Office of Transportation Innovation is a new office that resides within OIPI and will focus on coordinating innovation among the commonwealth’s transportation agencies including Aviation, DRPT, Virginia Space, the Virginia Port Authority, VDOT and DMV. 

The office will work across Virginia’s multimodal transportation system to identify opportunities, coordinate research, and create an entrepreneurial environment within the transportation sector. Its work will include Connected Corridors, Data Analytics, Integrated Applications, and Unmanned Systems that span space, land, water and aviation.

Cargo moving through Virginia Port Authority’s world-class facilities is transported from and to markets around the globe, carrying the goods and supplies that manufacturers, corporations, and individual consumers use in their everyday lives. This cargo is moved by way of:

• 6 Terminals
• 1,864 acres
• 19,885 L.F. of berth
• Up to 50’ deep berths
• 30 miles of on-dock rail

Virginia Port Authority’s deep water harbor–the deepest on the US East Coast–shelters the world’s largest naval base; a robust shipbuilding and repair industry; a thriving export coal trade and the sixth largest containerized cargo complex in the United States.

The Virginia Inland Port (VIP) is an intermodal container transfer facility in Front Royal, Virginia (Warren County) owned by the Virginia Port Authority. VIP is approximately 60 miles west of Washington, D.C. The terminal brings The Port of Virginia 220 miles closer to inland markets and enhances service to the Washington D.C. / Baltimore Metro Region by providing rail service to the terminals in Hampton Roads. VIP also consolidates and containerizes local cargo for export.

The Virginia Passenger Rail Authority (VPRA) is responsible for promoting, sustaining, and expanding the availability of passenger and commuter rail in the Commonwealth. VPRA manages all administrative and fiduciary responsibilities for Virginia’s state-supported passenger rail services, including the current eight daily Amtrak Northeast Regional roundtrip services originating in Roanoke, Norfolk, Newport News, and Richmond and provides funding to Virginia Railway Express (VRE). VPRA is improving reliability and increasing rail capacity and service in Virginia through strategic partnerships with Amtrak, CSX Transportation, Norfolk Southern, and the Virginia Railway Express (VRE) implementing capital expansion and infrastructure improvement projects.

The Virginia Passenger Rail Authority (VPRA) is responsible for promoting, sustaining, and expanding the availability of passenger and commuter rail in the Commonwealth. VPRA manages all administrative and fiduciary responsibilities for Virginia’s state-supported passenger rail services, including the current eight daily Amtrak Northeast Regional roundtrip services originating in Roanoke, Norfolk, Newport News, and Richmond and provides funding to Virginia Railway Express (VRE). VPRA is improving reliability and increasing rail capacity and service in Virginia through strategic partnerships with Amtrak, CSX Transportation (CSXT), Norfolk Southern, and the Virginia Railway Express (VRE) implementing capital expansion and infrastructure improvement projects.

The Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority (VCSFA), also known as ‘Virginia Space,' promotes commercial space activity, economic development and aerospace research within the Commonwealth.

Virginia Space serves as a driver for Virginia's Economy by providing safe, reliable, and responsive space Access at competitive prices, and secure facilities for testing of unmanned vehicles for integration into the National Air Space.

Virginia Space owns and operates the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) and the MARS UMS Airfield.  

Virginia Space aims to provide and is proud to offer full-service launch and drone testing facilities for commercial, government, scientific and academic users.

The Virginia Department of Transportation plans, delivers, operates and maintains a transportation system that is safe, enables easy movement of people and goods, enhances the economy and improves our quality of life.

Virginia has the third-largest state-maintained highway system in the country, with a $5.41 billion total annual budget. VDOT is responsible for 57,867-miles of roads, bridges and tunnels.