A team of local and foreign scientists at the Vietnamese-GermanTransport Research Centre at the Vietnamese–German University isdeveloping new road traffic signals that will help improve traffic flowand safety on the country's roads.
They will be based onthe latest German guidelines for traffic signals, though with variationsto suit local conditions, the team told a seminar held Sept. 29 inHCM City .
Do Quoc Cuong of the University ofTransport and Communications' Road and Traffic Engineering, said thecongestion and accidents that often occurr at intersections are due topoor road safety signals.
The current signal system causes a chaotic build-up of buses, cars, motorbikes, and bicycles at red lights, he said.
"The signals are based on 1950s standards and have not been updated,"he said, suggesting that different kinds of vehicles should be separatedinto different zones at red lights to improve traffic safety and speedup the flow.
He also suggested establishing new forms of intersections.
In HCM City , there are 628 signals, 524 of them using a countdown system.
Le Thu Huyen, head of the University of Transport andCommunications' Consulting Centre for Transport Development, saidviolating traffic regulations, such as jumping red, is common inVietnam .
Human behaviour causes almost all traffic accidents, including fatalities, she added.
Dr Khuat Viet Hung, head of the Vietnamese – German Transport ResearchCentre, said the research, being done by the Vietnamese - GermanUniversity, University of Transport and Communications, and Germany'sDarmstadt University of Technology, will be finished in a year's timeand the result submitted to the Ministry of Transport.
A new national standard for road traffic signals will be piloted in Hanoi and HCM City before nationwide application./.
They will be based onthe latest German guidelines for traffic signals, though with variationsto suit local conditions, the team told a seminar held Sept. 29 inHCM City .
Do Quoc Cuong of the University ofTransport and Communications' Road and Traffic Engineering, said thecongestion and accidents that often occurr at intersections are due topoor road safety signals.
The current signal system causes a chaotic build-up of buses, cars, motorbikes, and bicycles at red lights, he said.
"The signals are based on 1950s standards and have not been updated,"he said, suggesting that different kinds of vehicles should be separatedinto different zones at red lights to improve traffic safety and speedup the flow.
He also suggested establishing new forms of intersections.
In HCM City , there are 628 signals, 524 of them using a countdown system.
Le Thu Huyen, head of the University of Transport andCommunications' Consulting Centre for Transport Development, saidviolating traffic regulations, such as jumping red, is common inVietnam .
Human behaviour causes almost all traffic accidents, including fatalities, she added.
Dr Khuat Viet Hung, head of the Vietnamese – German Transport ResearchCentre, said the research, being done by the Vietnamese - GermanUniversity, University of Transport and Communications, and Germany'sDarmstadt University of Technology, will be finished in a year's timeand the result submitted to the Ministry of Transport.
A new national standard for road traffic signals will be piloted in Hanoi and HCM City before nationwide application./.
