Provincial Transport Service (IAST: ), often abbreviated to as PTS, is the civil service under Group A state service of Government of Uttar Pradesh responsible for formulation and administration of the rules, regulations and laws relating to road transport, and transport research, in order to increase the mobility and efficiency of the road transport system in the state.
The recruitment to the service is made on the basis of an annual competitive examination conducted by Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission. One-third of PTS quota is filled by promotion from its feeder service. PTS officers, regardless of their mode of entry, are appointed by the Governor of Uttar Pradesh.
The typical functions performed by a PTS officer are:
After completing their training, a PTS officer generally serves as assistant regional transport officer in districts. There are two posts of ARTO in districts i.e. ARTO (Administration) and ARTO (Enforcement), however in big districts there can be two-four ARTO (Enforcement) but only one ARTO (Administration). After that, they get promoted as regional transport officer at divisional level (Ghaziabad being exception which is only a district), each division has two RTO i.e. RTO (Administration) and RTO (Enforcement). Later they get further promotion as Deputy Transport Commissioners (Dy. TC) and are posted either in six transport zones or at commissionerate of transport. Subsequently they get promoted as additional transport commissioners (Addl. TC) either at field (west, east and central) or at commissionerate of transport. There is one Special Secretary post reserved for PTS officer in Transport Department.