Guidance on maintenance of road infrastructure in Vietnam from January 01, 2025

Guidance on maintenance of road infrastructure in Vietnam from January 01, 2025 (Internet image)

On June 27, 2024, the National Assembly of Vietnam passed the Road Law 2024.

Guidance on maintenance of road infrastructure in Vietnam from January 01, 2025

According to Article 35 of the Road Law 2024 regarding road infrastructure maintenance, it is stipulated as follows:

- Road infrastructure maintenance is a set of tasks aimed at ensuring the normal and safe operation of road infrastructure as per the design during operation, exploitation, and use, including:

- Road infrastructure maintenance;

- Road infrastructure repair;

- Inspection, monitoring, quality assessment, safety evaluation of road infrastructure.

- Road infrastructure maintenance is prescribed as follows:

- Road infrastructure maintenance includes regular, periodic maintenance and is conducted according to the Road Law 2024, laws on construction, public asset management and use, technical standards, and maintenance procedures for road infrastructure;

- The results of road infrastructure maintenance should be recorded and documented; the road managers, users are responsible for confirming the completion of maintenance and managing it in the road infrastructure maintenance dossier;

- The method of applying maintenance to road infrastructure follows the legal provisions on construction, public asset management, and bidding laws.

- Road infrastructure repair includes periodic and emergency repairs to rectify damages and deterioration occurring during the operation, ensuring the safety of the construction work, and road traffic safety, limiting the degradation of road infrastructure.

- Periodic repair includes:

- Repair of defects, damaged works, components, and replacement of damaged components installed in the work, conducted periodically according to the exploitation, use frequency based on technical standards, road infrastructure maintenance procedures;

- Adding road signals, road traffic safety works, and other work items, equipment to ensure continuous and safe traffic operations and improve the technical condition of the operational works;

- Repair, upgrade of storage facilities for equipment, spare materials in the road sector; additional procurement of spare materials for disaster prevention, mitigation, and search and rescue work;

- Repair, upgrade of the intelligent traffic management system; traffic operation, coordination centers for expressways; equipment, technology systems for management, operation, exploitation, maintenance of road infrastructure; road traffic management, operation systems; toll collection systems; load control works.

- Emergency repair includes:

- Repair to rectify road traffic accident-prone spots, potential road traffic accident points;

- Repair to mitigate the effects of natural disasters;

- Repair when work components are suddenly damaged during operation, and other necessary cases to ensure the safety of the construction work, traffic safety during operation.

- Road infrastructure repair must ensure compliance with technical standards, meet exploitation load and traffic volume, and adhere to laws on construction, disaster prevention, and the Road Law 2024.

- Inspection, monitoring, quality assessment of road infrastructure and safety evaluation of works are prescribed as follows:

- Quality inspection of road infrastructure includes regular patrols, inspections, and other checks as per construction laws;

- Monitoring, quality assessment of road infrastructure and safety evaluation of works are conducted according to construction laws.

More details can be found in the Road Law 2024, which comes into force in Vietnam from January 1, 2025, except for the provisions of Clause 2, Article 85 of the Road Law 2024.

The Law on Road Traffic 2008, amended and supplemented by the Law on Amendments and Supplements to Certain Provisions of 37 Laws Regarding Planning 2018 and the Law on Prevention and Control of Alcohol and Beer Harm 2019, ceases to be effective from the date the Road Law 2024 comes into effect, except as stipulated in Article 86 of the Road Law 2024.

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