[2][3] At the time, the government anticipated that TFV would eventually become a single point of information for travel within Victoria, as well as a coordinating agency for the planning of transport infrastructure.
[4] Adam Carey, writing in The Age, suggested that the new authority would only undermine the role of the then recently established PTV as an umbrella agency.
[5] The organization became operational in April 2017[2][3] to realise the principal objectives of the Transport Integration Act 2010.
At the start of 2019, TFV became part of the newly established Department of Transport.
The head plays a key strategic role in ensuring Victoria's growing transport system is integrated and coordinated.