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The Land Transport Directorate performs expert and administrative tasks related to the development, investment and safety with respect to roads, the toll system in the Republic of Slovenia, and the maintenance and management of road infrastructure. It also carries out tasks related to road transport and logistics, as well as railways and cableways.

Among other things, it is responsible for implementing the Development Strategy for Transport and Public Transport Infrastructure, coordinating transport connections with Slovenia's neighbouring countries and within the European Union, monitoring the state of transport infrastructure, traffic flows, activities and trends in the European transport policy.

The Directorate is responsible for deploying and promoting intelligent transport systems, designed primarily to effectively inform road users and improve road safety. It monitors traffic, traffic flow data and analyses based on actual data from the infrastructure.

Furthermore, the Directorate ensures the optimisation of the infrastructure in relation to possible multimodal connections, the preparation of legal bases for the implementation of domestic and international road passenger and goods transport and documents relating to road transport, logistics and intermodal transport, the implementation of passenger transport in domestic and international rail transport, the performance of administrative and expert tasks related to the traffic safety of vehicles and drivers, traffic rules, operation of cableway installations and ski slopes, issuing authorisations to conduct technical inspections of cableway installations, granting concessions for the construction of cableway installations and issuing authorisations to operators of cableway installations, participation in drafting EU legislation and transposing it into Slovenia's legislation, and cooperation in international organisations and associations in transport infrastructure and transport of passengers and goods. Furthermore, the Directorate is responsible for providing the legislative basis for the development of the public railway infrastructure.