Policies for development of road operations in Vietnam from 2025

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Policies for development of road operations in Vietnam from 2025

According to Article 4 of the Law on Road 2024, the policies for the development of road operations are specified as follows:

- Policies for the development of road infrastructure include:

+ Concentrating resources to develop modern road infrastructure that adapts to climate change and is environmentally friendly; synchronously connecting road routes, other modes of transport with road transport;

+ Establishing mechanisms to promote the mobilization of social resources, diversifying forms, methods of investment, construction, management, operation, exploitation, and maintenance of road infrastructure;

+ Prioritizing the development of expressways, key road projects that connect regions, large urban areas, domestic and international centers; road infrastructure for ethnic minorities, mountainous areas, islands, and border areas; accessible and safe road infrastructure for vulnerable groups; urban road infrastructure to reduce traffic congestion; border patrol roads, coastal roads serving the goal of combining socio-economic development with national defense and security.

- Developing reasonable types of transport business; creating a healthy competitive environment among types of transport business by automobiles; developing intelligent transportation; prioritizing the development of public passenger transport by bus and other means of transportation.

- Encouraging, creating conditions for organizations, individuals from Vietnam and abroad to invest in, exploit road infrastructure and road transport activities; researching, applying advanced science, technology, sustainable materials, environmentally friendly and training human resources in the road sector.

Prohibited acts in Vietnam under Law on Road 2024

- Destroying road infrastructure; exploiting, using road infrastructure contrary to legal regulations.

- Unauthorized connection to main roads, branch roads; illegally dismantling, moving, or altering road works.

- Encroaching, occupying, illegally using, building within the protection scope of road infrastructure.

- Installing, dismantling, moving, adjusting, obscuring road signs contrary to legal regulations; attaching, hanging, installing unrelated content to the meaning, purpose of road signs on road signs or distorting road signs.

- Transport business by car, four-wheeled vehicles with a motor without a transport business license according to legal regulations or doing business inconsistently with the license.

- Establishing illegal passenger pick-up and drop-off points, loading and unloading goods.

(Article 7 Law on Road 2024)

Principles of road operations under Law on Road 2024

- Ensuring smooth, safe, synchronous, effective, environmentally friendly traffic, serving the transportation needs of goods and convenient travel for people, contributing to socio-economic development, ensuring national defense, security, and environmental protection, disaster prevention, and international integration.

- Developing roads according to planning; efficiently using resources; connecting road transport modes with other transport modes; promoting the application of advanced science, technology, ensuring civilization, modernity, and synchronicity.

- Implementing uniformly based on specific assignment, decentralization of responsibilities, authority, while closely coordinating between Ministries, branches, and local authorities at all levels.

- All violations of the law on road operations must be promptly detected, prevented, strictly processed, and in accordance with the law.

(Article 3 of Law on Road 2024)

More details can be found in Law on Road 2024, which comes into force in Vietnam from January 1, 2025, except for the provisions at points a and b of Clause 2 of Article 42, Article 43, Article 50, Clause 1 of Article 84 effective from October 1, 2024.

Le Nguyen Anh Hao

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