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Vietnam aims to increase public transport, reduce private vehicles

It is an urgent need for Vietnam to increase public transport and reduce private vehicle, it was agreed at a debate of representatives from nine sub-committees of the National Traffic Safety Committee on December 2 in the framework of the on-going Traffic Safety Conference 2021.
Vietnam aims to increase public transport, reduce private vehicles ảnh 1A road in Hanoi during peak hours (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – It is an urgent need for Vietnam to increase public transport and reduce private vehicle, it was agreed at a debate of representatives from nine sub-committees of the National Traffic Safety Committee on December 2 in the framework of the on-going Traffic Safety Conference 2021.

During the event, participants focused their discussion on traffic safetymanagement, international experience in traffic safety, traffic infrastructureand organization, traffic accident-post response, traffic vehicles, traffic safetyfor aviation, inland waterway and railway.

Former Deputy Chief of the National Office on Sustainable Development of the Ministryof Planning and Investment Dr. Nguyen Duc Thang said Vietnam has prioritized infrastructureexpansion but the annual growth of travel demand is always higher than thegrowth of transport infrastructure.

He pointed out several traffic paradoxesin Vietnam, saying that the rate of private vehicles in Vietnam is higher thanthe rate of public transport. The ratio of public transport does not increase and is even decreasing in both Ho ChiMinh City and Hanoi (from about 12 percent in 2014 to 10 percent and 8 percent in 2015and 2016, respectively).

Ho Chi Minh City has nearly 10 million motorbikes andpersonal cars and the figure in Hanoi is nearly 7 million. Many newly-constructed wide roads are still congested at rush hours.

Thang emphasized the need to investin developing a modern bus system inorder to meet 75 percent of the daily travel need.

RegardingVietnam’s national road traffic safety database system, Nguyen Huu Duc from theWorld Bank’s global traffic research team in Vietnam said traffic accidents canbe predicted and prevented, but systematic efforts to reduce traffic accidentscan be hampered by the inaccuracy of road safety data.

He cited an example that data on vehiclesexceeding the allowed speed is not available in Vietnam, noting that afive-percent decrease in average speed will help reduce the number of fataltraffic accidents due to this cause by 20 percent

The research team proposed five groupsof data to be included in the road traffic safety database based on the UN Voluntary Global  Performance Targets for Road Safety Risk Factors, including speed and alcohol violations, seat belt, helmetand road quality./.


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