Vehicles at Giap Bat Bus Station in Hanoi (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - Some 170,000 buses, coachesand mini-buses will need to have two in-vehicle surveillance cameras from Julynext year.
All owners of the nine-seat or above transportation vehicleswill have to finish the installation of the cameras by July 1,2021, following a decree recently approved by Prime Minister Nguyen XuanPhuc.
The move aims to stop driver behaviour that couldthreaten the safety of passengers and clamp down on buses carrying morepassengers than they are permitted to.
Recording and storage of the images on the vehicles,including images of the drivers and doors of the vehicles, must be sent topolice, traffic inspectors and licensing agencies to ensure transparentsurveillance.
Videos and images must be stored for a minimum of 24 hoursfor vehicles on journeys of less than 500km and 72 hours for vehicles operatingon journeys of more than 500km.
It is estimated installing cameras in all 170,000vehicles will cost 1.5 – 1.9 trillion VND (64.5-81.8 million USD).
The decree also said that cars providing passengertransportation services could have a taxi sign on the roof or stick asign made of reflective material on the front or rear window instead ofbeing forced to install a taxi sign on the roof as before.
For the vehicles’ taximeter, the device must be inspected andverified by a competent agency. The vehicles must also have an invoiceprinting device connected to the taximeter in a place passengerscan easily observe.
Businesses that provide passenger transportationservices via ride-hailing must also send an electronic invoice foreach trip to the passenger after the trip ends and send informationon the invoice to the local tax office./.
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