The Conference was held under the co-chairmanship of Dr. Khuat Viet Hung, Vice Chairman of National Traffic Safety Committee and Major General, Prof.Dr Nguyen Van Nhat, Vice President of the PPA. Attending the Conference were Lieutenant General, Dr. Le Quy Vuong, Deputy Minister of Public Security, Deputy Chairman of National Traffic Safety Committee; Lieutenant General, Assoc.Prof.Dr. Le Van De, Deputy Director General of Building-up Force; Mr. Nguyen Trong Thai, Chief of Office of National Traffic Safety Committee. As for the international organizations and non-governmental agencies were Representative of JICA in Vietnam; Office of WHO in Vietnam; GRSP in Vietnam; Asia Professional Security Association - Bien Bac Joint Stock Company. As for the PPA were Major General, Dr. Dang Xuan Khang, Vice President of the Academy; leaders of functional units; officers, lecturers and students the PPA.

Dr. Khuat Viet Hung, Vice Chairman of National Traffic Safety Committee 

gave the opening speech at the Conference

In recent years, the situation of traffic accident on Highway 1A has been curbed, the number of traffic accidents on Highway 1A tends to decrease in comparison with the same period last year, the awareness of implementing traffic laws of people has been raising. However, in fact, the potential risk of accidents and traffic congestion on Highway 1A is still high, especially in some densely populated areas such as Thanh Hoa province, Nghe An province, Ha Tinh province, Phu Yen province, etc. On the other hand, the implementation of solutions to reduce traffic accidents is difficult and its efficiency is not high. To deal with these difficulties, the Conference was held with the coordination of national agencies, organizations and scientists, managers, particularly the Office of National Traffic Safety Committee, WHO in Vietnam, GRSP in Vietnam.

Conference displayed the solutions to minimize

 the traffic accidents and ensure the social security

Speaking at the Conference, Lieutenant General, Dr. Le Quy Vuong highly appreciated the PPA in cooperation with the Office of National Traffic Safety Committee, Road General Department, General Department of Police for Administrative Management on Social Order and Safety, WHO in Vietnam, GRSP in Vietnam to organize the Conference and confirmed that this science activity was very practical, brought the valuable experience in the term of theory and practice. Also, he addressed 5 factors that affected the traffic safety such as: human in traffic, people who enforce the official duties on traffic safety, vehicles in traffic, infrastructure, traffic organization and system of traffic laws; from that, he proposed the measures to reduce traffic accidents. Lieutenant General Le Quy Vuong hoped that by analyzing and evaluating practice, the Conference would create the master solutions and recommend the Government and the authorities in reducing traffic accidents on Highway 1A.

Major General, Prof.Dr Nguyen Van Nhat, Vice President of the PPA

 spoke at the Conference

At the Conference, the participants clarified the issues: Causes, characteristics and forecast the road traffic accident on Highway 1A; Maintenance of road infrastructure; Administrative management on road transportation activities on Highway 1A; Prevention, investigation and handling of traffic accidents; International experience and applying ability to reduce road traffic accidents in Vietnam, etc. The participants pointed out the most pressing issues to propose the immediate and long-term measures, especially the propagation and dissemination of knowledge for people in traffic - the biggest factors affecting traffic safety.

The participants took memorial photographs

At the end of Conference, Major General, Prof.Dr Nguyen Van Nhat summed up the opinions of the participants, the value scientific foundations, thereby gave the proposals the Government and the authorities; he wished in the coming time, the delegates, scientists, managers of the Academies, Universities, Institutes, Department of Transportation and Traffic Safety Committee, the Public Security Departments of provinces would cooperate more closely with the PPA in scientific research on ensuring ensure traffic safety and order of the country.

Written by QD