(VOVworld) – Ho Chi Minh City will build a complete digital map of roads to provide online information to reduce traffic jams and accidents, according to its Department of Transport’s road infrastructure management and exploitation division. To create the map, the city People’s Committee has asked the Ministry of Transport to share data about all vehicles in the city so the city will set up IT applied measures for managing and regulating traffic. Ngo Hai Duong, the head of the division, said last week the transport department’s existing digital map is simple since it only updates data about buses and traffic congestion and warnings about traffic jams. Once the ministry provides the data about the city’s taxis, buses, trucks and other vehicles, they will be incorporated to complete the digital map. Once that is done, the public can use smart phones to check the city’s transport situation to choose the appropriate streets to avoid traffic jams. … [Read more...] about Digital map aims to ease traffic jams in Ho Chi Minh City
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Better urban planning to help reduce traffic jams in Vietnam’s big cities
VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Van Thach, head of the Traffic Safety Department under the Ministry of Transport talks with online newspaper VietNamNet about traffic jams. It is true. Bad urban planning in the two big cities has caused terrible traffic congestion. To solve this problem, cutting down the population density in the city centres by removing hospitals, universities and factories to the suburban areas was necessary. However, the moving plans in both cities have been slow. In Ha Noi, some factories and plants moved out of the town but the land was used for constructing high-rise buildings and shopping malls which heaped more pressure on the city's traffic. For example, people have been suffering horrible traffic congestion every day at Nga Tu So intersection of Thanh Xuan District where a new residential area and shopping centre were built on land where a factory used to be. Infrastructure has not developed as fast as the increase of personal means of transport. How … [Read more...] about Better urban planning to help reduce traffic jams in Vietnam’s big cities
Better urban planning will help reduce traffic jams in big cities
Nguyen Van Thach, head of the Traffic Safety Department under the Ministry of Transport talks with online newspaper VietNamNet about traffic jams. In 2015, traffic jams in Ha Noi and HCM City have become more and more terrible. Experts blamed bad urban planning. What is your opinion? It is true. Bad urban planning in the two big cities has caused terrible traffic congestion. To solve this problem, cutting down the population density in the city centres by removing hospitals, universities and factories to the suburban areas was necessary. However, the moving plans in both cities have been slow. In Ha Noi, some factories and plants moved out of the town but the land was used for constructing high-rise buildings and shopping malls which heaped more pressure on the city's traffic. For example, people have been suffering horrible traffic congestion every day at Nga Tu So intersection of Thanh Xuan District where a new residential area and shopping centre were built on land where a … [Read more...] about Better urban planning will help reduce traffic jams in big cities
No more traffic jams, congestion in Vietnam’s cities
Editor’s note: Chau Thanh Nghia dreams of a traffic jam-free Vietnam in 2035 as he joined the "Ky Vong Viet Nam 20 Nam Toi" ("My Expectations for Vietnam in 20 Years") writing competition. Traffic gridlock is considered an incurable disease of many major cites around the world. In Vietnam, the phenomenon happens every day in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, becoming a huge nuisance for millions of city dwellers. I am hoping and imagining about a Vietnam in 20 years when there will be no traffic congestion in its cities. In the next 20 years, when going to the streets, you will no longer have to struggle with seas of people and vehicles as you used to. You can get through the streets leisurely and safely, and travel to anywhere you want without the slightest concern about traffic jams. In the next 20 years, you will no longer feel tired, stressful and annoyed by the noises and dust coming from somewhere on the streets. You will no longer have to force yourself to get up … [Read more...] about No more traffic jams, congestion in Vietnam’s cities
City radio rewards traffic jam informers
People in Ho Chi Minh City will be rewarded for reporting traffic jams to a program on the city radio station. The rewards, introduced Tuesday by the People's Voice of Ho Chi Minh City and Saigon Import Export Investment Incorporation, will be given to the listeners who provide the most updates about traffic jams, accidents and general problems to the station's "24h Traffic Program." The program runs from 6a.m. to midnight every day. Awards for this year are worth VND100 million (US$5,300) and will be given to listeners, coodinators and editors. The "24h Traffic Program" on FM 99.9MHz was first broadcast in November last year in partnership with the city board of traffic safety. It informed people about traffic jam spots to avoid. Information came from more than 100 coodinators and more than 300 listeners including students, drivers and traffic police. It was valued by the city government as one of eight urgent solutions to limit traffic jams in the city. In September, … [Read more...] about City radio rewards traffic jam informers