HCM City aims to promote smart traffic system

A camera system installed over a highway in HCM City. – VNA/VNS Photo

HÀ NỘI – Along with completing its transport infrastructure system, HCM City is building a smart traffic management and operation system using high technologies to deal with traffic congestion and reduce accidents.

The southern economic hub is the first locality to build a smart traffic operation centre, which was put into operation in 2019, helping enhance the efficiency of traffic monitoring and regulation in the city.

Đoàn Văn Tấn, Director of the Urban Traffic Management and Operations Centre under the HCM City Department of Transport, said that the city was investing in completing the transport system and major transport works with the application of the TOD (Transit Oriented Development) model, enabling the implementation of traffic management and regulation on digital platforms.

He revealed that the department planned to build a complete traffic management and operation centre having all functions following traffic development orientations of the city.

Experts held that on the foundation of the underway smart traffic operation centre, HCM City should continue to make breakthroughs in the application of new technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI) in traffic management.

The city should increase data connections and sharing and expand reaction and connectivity with public transportation service suppliers and transport work management agencies to enhance the efficiency of traffic regulation and operation, serving research and assessment of the urban traffic situation and resolving traffic congestion, they said.

The synchronous implementation of these solutions in particular periods would contribute to perfecting the city’s smart traffic system in the future, they added. – VNS