Road Safety Project

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The Road Safety Project aims at reducing the rate of accidents, injury, and death associated with road transport, through physical improvement works, and institutional development to strengthen the management of road transport safety. The project has three components: Institutional and Capacity Building Program, Road Safety Demonstration and Awareness Program, and, Road Safety Monitoring and Evaluation Program. The first component will provide technical assistance within the implementation of the project to strengthen the management, and technical capacity of the National Traffic Safety Committee (NTSC) Executive Office, and the Traffic Safety Project Management Unit (TSPMU), and will further prepare a national road safety strategy. The second component will assist the government in developing, and implementing comprehensive, integrated safety programs, which includes the enhancement of road safety auditing processes, and funding of blackspot treatments, for three high-risk road corridors. In addition, a program of road user education, traffic safety enforcement, and emergency service preparedness along the three demonstration corridors will be implemented. Finally, the third component will support the development of a national road accident database system, to be used initially by the Vietnam Road Administration (VRA) to enhance the identification and treatment of blackspots, and by the Ministry of Public Safety to improve enforcement strategies and priorities.