What are contents of urban passenger railway transport operation management in Ho Chi Minh City from November 11, 2024?

What are contents of urban passenger railway transport operation management in Ho Chi Minh City from November 11, 2024?​ (Image from Internet)

On October 30, 2024, the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City issued Decision 97/2024/QD-UBND regulating the management and operation of urban railway traffic transport in Ho Chi Minh City.

1. Contents of urban passenger railway transport operation management in Ho Chi Minh City from November 11, 2024

According to the regulation in Article 16 of the Regulation issued with Decision 97/2024/QD-UBND, the management content of urban railway passenger transport in Ho Chi Minh City includes:

- Developing and announcing train schedules including:

+ Developing, allocating, and announcing train schedules;

+ Adjusting train schedules when necessary.

- Organizing unified, centralized train operations, ensuring safety and smoothness according to the announced train schedules, railway signal regulations, traffic rules, and train operation commands including:

+ Organizing train reception, dispatch, dissolution, formation, and shunting;

+ Organizing train operations and shunting for infrastructure repair works on railways.

- Commanding the resolution of emergency or unusual incidents on railways including:

+ Mobilizing human resources, vehicles, equipment of the enterprises, and organizing train operations and shunting to serve rescue and relief works on railways in the event of railway traffic accidents or incidents;

+ Adjusting train routes on each segment and railway line to restore the train schedules as soon as possible after accidents or incidents;

+ Participating in analyzing, determining causes, proposing solutions for overcoming railway traffic accidents or incidents;

+ Temporarily suspending train operations when detecting threats to train operation safety or potential safety risks as directed by health authorities.

- Collecting and summarizing information related to the management of urban railway transport including the following information:

+ Information about passengers, accidents, incidents, construction, and repair of railway infrastructure;

+ Information about actual train journeys on the routes;

+ Information about the use of urban railway vehicles.

- Storing and processing digital data related to management tasks as prescribed by law.

2. Guidelines for urban railway transport management in Ho Chi Minh City from November 11, 2024

The inspection and supervision of the implementation of train schedules and urban railway traffic transport management in Ho Chi Minh City are carried out according to the regulation in Article 17 of the Regulation issued with Decision 97/2024/QD-UBND:

- Inspection and supervision contents include:

+ Inspecting and supervising the development, announcement, and adjustment of train schedules;

+ Inspecting and supervising the compatibility of train schedules with the announced railway infrastructure requirements, and the technical characteristics of urban railway vehicles on each segment, each line, and the entire railway network;

+ Inspecting and supervising the implementation of urban railway transport management content, responsibility for implementing urban railway transport management.

- Enterprises are responsible for performing tasks related to the development, announcement, and adjustment of train schedules and urban railway transport management as per regulations; organizing safe train operations, accurately following the train schedules, and other requirements as announced.

- Enterprises comply with the requests of competent authorities in organizing the inspection and supervision of train schedule implementation and urban railway transport management.

- When a violation is detected during an inspection (if any), competent authorities require enterprises to immediately take corrective actions regarding the development, adjustment, announcement, and execution of train schedules.

- Competent authorities demand enterprises to temporarily suspend train operations until the violations threatening train operation safety are corrected.

Refer to the Decision 97/2024/QD-UBND (effective from November 11, 2024).

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