Mai Van Duc Deputy Director General Directorate for Roads of Viet Nam

摘要

Viet Nam has a road network of approximately: 93,300 km of which 23,418 km are pavedand 69,882 km are unpaved (1999 est.) Economic growth is being accompanied by rapidtraffic growth. Since 1990, the number of automobiles has increased two-and-a-half timesand the number of motorcycles has increased eight-and-a-half times. Over 90% of the 11-12 million motorized vehicles in Vietnam are motorcycles and some 70% of reportedcrashes involve motorcycles. This means rapidly increasing strains on the infrastructure,the environment and the road users, with a growing toll of road crashes. Yet in comparisonto those of other Asian countries, motorization levels in Viet Nam are still low, indicatingthat vehicle ownership will continue to increase with economic growth for many moreyears. As with many other low-income countries, Viet Nam is coping with growingmotorization rates and an increasing number of road crashes. An estimated 95% of allvehicles on the roads are two wheelers and these contribute to 90% of all road crashes.Traffic accident has been given special attention by societies globally and also a mainchallenging for all countries in the world. Similarly, traffic accident situation in Viet Nam isin same situation with developing countries. This issue is a great concern from Viet Nam’ssociety.Transport demand up to 2020 will increase significantly and go along with the pace ofsocio-economic development. Consequently, traffic accident would intend to morecomplex . It is urgent need to establish a national strategy on intensifying traffic order andsafety situation and propose a series of priority, urgent and feasible measures to realizethis strategy.The National Strategy on Traffic Order and Safety is established based on two legaldocuments such as a bulletin No 05/TB-VPCP dated 5th January 2007 issued by theGovernment Office to announce conclusions made by Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen SinhHung at the National Conference on traffic safety in 2006 and document No28/UBATGTQG dated 17th January 2007 issued by the National Traffic Safety Committee(NTSC) to announce conclusions made by Chairman of NTSC, Minister Ho Nghia Dung atthe conference on urgent need for establishing the National Traffic Order and Safety on 3~(rd)January 2007.