As per request of the Da Nang government, the Traffic Inspectorate under the municipal Department of Transport has implemented many solutions to ensure traffic safety.

Specifically, in addition to the operation of the existing weighbridge stations, portable load scales are now utilized to ensure more flexible checking and handling of load violations on major highways in the city.

Traffic inspection teams have been in charge of the use of durable & lightweight portable wheel load scales to ensure the precise weighing of large trucks, dumper trucks right at the source of goods such as ports, wharves, material mines, places of goods gathering and means of transporting goods passing through the city. Vehicles that are found being in violation of its load capacity must be handled in line with the law.

Also, fines have been levied on passenger transport vehicles, including on contract cars, tourist coaches and taxis that are caught violating the traffic rules on surveillance cameras installed along routes nearby coach stations.

The high-resolution smart surveillance cameras can automatically detect passenger transport vehicles violating the city’s traffic rules, including illegally stopping, picking up and dropping off passengers nearby coach station in the districts of Cam Le and Lien Chieu.

Images of traffic violators, violation times and venues, and the registration plates of the violating vehicles are captured and recorded on cameras.

The use of data extracted from the city's traffic surveillance camera system aims to improve efficiency in handling administrative violations, step by step towards the digital transformation at the Inspectorate of the municipal Department of Transport.

Along with solutions to strengthen handling of violations, local traffic police shall guide road users to travel in the right lanes along the busy Ngo Quyen - Ngu Hanh Son route with heavy traffic volume between its intersections with Nguyen Phan Vinh and the Dragon Bridge.

The ‘Building a traffic culture associated with effective control of COVID-19’ movement should be given a special heed.

Reporting by TRIEU TUNG – Translating by A.THU