PM stresses technological applications in traffic management
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc underlined the need to intensify technological applications in managing traffic safety while speaking at a teleconference in Hanoi on July 22.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc speaks at the teleconference. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) –Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc underlined the need to intensify technologicalapplications in managing traffic safety while speaking at a teleconference in Hanoion July 22.
He lauded smart traffic management centres established by cities which exchangedata with relevant agencies.
The infrastructure quality should be improved in order to meet the rapid developmentof vehicles, focusing on major facilities like elevated railway and metro, thePM said.
Drastic measures are needed to accelerate the implementation of the non-stoptoll collection model, he said, noting that the better communication work,especially among youths, would help to raise public awareness of trafficsafety.
At the meeting, the leader asked the Ministry of Transport to promptly make suggestionstowards amending the 2018 Law on Road Traffic, and the Ministry of Justice to proposebuilding the law on handling administrative violations in the sector withstricter punishment.
He pointed out institutional shortcomings in ensuring traffic safety in theroad, railway, water and aviation spheres, especially flight safety.
The PM touched upon the high numbers of deaths and injuries caused by trafficaccidents, traffic jams in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and other big cities, and drunkdriving and drug-using drivers.
The National Traffic Safety Committee reported that 8,385 traffic accidentswere recorded in the first six months of this year, killing 3,810 people andinjuring 6,358 others. The figures dropped as compared with the same periodlast year.
Traffic police handled nearly 2 million cases of traffic violations, with finesexceeding 1.2 trillion VND (51.6 million USD), 163,990 driving licencesconfiscated and 292,000 vehicles seized. -VNA
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Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc speaks at the teleconference. (Photo: VNA) 
