The Da Nang government has approved the ‘Specialized urban transport planning task in Da Nang by 2030, with a vision towards 2045’.

The planning is based on the population size of Da Nang by 2030 reaching about 1.79 million people, of whom about 1.56 million have permanent and temporary residence, and about 2.56 million people by 2045, including 2.13 million people with permanent and temporary residence.

The urban planning focuses on assessing the actual situation of construction and development of urban transport infrastructure and public passenger transport, forecasting transport demand and determining economic and technical criteria and land fund for traffic, making the planning of the urban site's transport system connecting with Da Nang and other localities, via roadways, railways, waterways and airways.

Also, other tasks are to identify the alignment, location and scale of key works such as airports, seaports, river ports, intersections and external parking lots.

For urban transport system planning, heed is paid to conducting the classification and organisation of urban road network, urban railway lines (on the ground, overhead, underground works), locations and the scale of railway stations, parking lots in urban areas and traffic hubs.

Reporting by TRIEU TUNG – Translating by A.THU