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“Transportation for A Better Life:
Smart Mobility for Now and Then”

23 August 2019, Bangkok, Thailand

2. Characteristics of many motorbike traffic
environment
2.1 Heavy traffic
According to the Ho Chi Minh City Traffic Safety
Board, each month the city recorded that more than
30,000 new personal registered vehicles and the
motorbikes accounted for 2/3. In urban areas such as
Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, motorbike traffic
makes up nearly 90% of the total traffic volume. See
details in Table 2:

Fig.5 Bicycle rental and electric bicycle project at Table 2: Quantity and proportion of vehicles in
Hanoi University of Technology. Hanoi City
Amount
Species
Serial Motocycle Unit 5,045,672 Per(%)
1

90
Veh
Details of the information in the Table: 2 Car Veh 334,273 6
Table 1: Summary of the situation of development 3 Coach Veh 30,816 1
of pubic bicyce in Vietnamese cities 4 Truck Veh 149,601 3
Sq Pop Moto Public Public 5 Other Veh 35,122 1
City Total: 5,595,484 100
(th.km ) 2 (th.per) (mil.veh) Trans Bike
Center Cities Source: Hanoi Public Security, 2015
-Bus
1 Ho Chi Minh 2.601 8.287 7.5 (2017) -Taxi Yes * As we can see, the boom in motorbike is in
-Metro proportion to the income and population growth in
-Bus,
-BRT Vietnam. With more than $800 each person can
2 Hanoi 3.358 7.31 5.4 (2017) Yes** easily own a motorbike, and the government has no
-Taxi
-Metro policy to control that increase. Along with the habit
- Bus of using personal vehicles has intangibly created a
3 Da Nang 1.285 1.045 0.807 (2016) No
- Taxi great consequence of traffic. The growth of
Small cities (Travel Cities) motorcycles in HCMC is at Figure 5.
-Bus
4 Da Lat 0.365 0.406 - Yes***
-Taxi
-Bus
5 Hoi An 0.06 0.152 0.025 -Taxi Yes****
-Xichlo
Soure: Synthetic from General Statistics Office
* There are 3 typical models:
- E-bike project in HCM City of National University
- The project of public bicycle in Quang Trung
Software Park
- Public bicycle project connecting with buses in the
city center area (being feasible).
** There are 2 projects:
-BK-Ebike project at Ha Noi University of Fig.6 The chart shows the number and speed of
Technology motorcycle development in HCMC in the period of
-Renting public bicycle in 4 university points: Hanoi 2011-2015
University of Industry, Electricity University, 2.2 The infrastructure
University of Commerce, Central College of The characteristics of the road system, traffic
Education by craft method. infrastructure in Vietnam's urban areas are mostly
*** Manual tourism bicycle rental. renovated and upgraded from an existing system
**** Include: from the French colonial period so they are often
- Rental of manual tourism bicycles; limited and unable to meet increasing traffic
- Program for bicycle traffic development in Hoi An. requirements. Another special feature in Vietnamese
cities is the alley. Alley is everywhere with many
different sizes and shapes to create favorable
conditions for motorbikes to develop. Large traffic

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