Attending the ceremony were Lieutenant General, Prof. Dr. Nguyen Xuan Yem - President of the PPA; Mr. Khuat Viet Hung - Deputy Chairman of the National Traffic Safety Committee; Mr. Vu Quang Khoi - Director of the Vietnam Railways Cooperation; Mr. Dang Viet Ha - Deputy Director of the Vietnam Register Agency; Mr.Nguyen Van Thach - Director of the Traffic Safety Department, Ministry of Transport; Mr. Doan Duy Hoach- Deputy General Director of the Vietnam Railway Corporation; Asian Professional Security Association; JSC Bien Bac; representatives of the provincial Traffic Safety Board, the Department of Transportation, Traffic Police Departments from 34 provinces and cities where the railway across, representatives of the functional units of the PPA.

The leaders co-chaired the Conference

Vietnam Railways that the history of developing for more than 100 years, is one of the types of large-volume, convenient and secure transport. However, the situation of railway traffic order and safety currently is very complex. Therefore, to keep the order and reduce the accidents that causes the damages for people and property, the Government, the State and the relevant management agencies from the central to local authorities have issued many legal documents and instructions, offered many urgent measures to gradually curb the violations and railway traffic accidents, contributing to the socio-economic development, ensuring the security and defense.

Opening the Conference, Lieutenant-General, Prof. Dr. Nguyen Xuan Yem - Party Secretary, President of the PPA emphasized that the PPA in collaboration with the National Traffic Safety Committee organized "Railway Traffic accidents in Vietnam - problems, causes and preventive measures" with the aims that the results from the Conference would be used as the important basis to help the National Traffic Safety Committee to consult the Government to improve the situation of the Railway traffic order and safety in the future. He required that the reports at the Conference should clarify the status of railway traffic accidents, especially focusing on the measures to prevent the railway traffic accident (Railway traffic vehicles, Traffic safety at railway crossroads, traffic signal systems, information technology applications, improve efficiency of railway accident investigation ...).

Mr. Doan Duy Hoach - Deputy General Director of the Vietnam 

Railway Corporation presented discussion speech at the Conference

At the conference, the experts focused on discussing the content relating to the practical situation, causes and solutions to contribute to improving railway traffic safety, prevention of traffic accidents in the future.

As reported by Mr. Doan Duy Hoach - Deputy General Director of the Vietnam Railway Corporation, only up to October, 2015, the traffic accidents on the railways in Vietnam increased at all 03 criteria: the number of cases, the death toll and the number of injured. Although the authorities have tried to implement many solutions but the traffic accidents have still being complicated because the consciousness, the awareness of people in traffic are not good, system of railway infrastructure are inadequate, many railway passes through the areas with the rapid urbanization speed and run parallel to the highway. Furthermore, the local authorities are also confused in handling the violation relating to the railway safety corridor. In 2015, the extent of damages caused by the railway traffic accidents have amounted to 50 billion VND.

Mr. Khuat Viet Hung - Deputy Chairman of the National Traffic Safety 

Commission spoke to sumarize the contents of the Conference

Concluding at the Conference, Mr. Khuat Viet Hung - Deputy Chairman of the National Traffic Safety Committee appreciated the comments of the experts and confirmed that the positive comments would be recorded and implemented soon in the future. He also hoped, the specialized agencies would continue to research together to find the further effective measures, particularly the scientific and technological applications to restrict and reduce the railway accidents in the future.

The delegates took the memorial photograph

Translated by Gia Linh