THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAMPROJECT FOR CAPACITY ENHANCEMENT

IN ROAD MAINTENANCE

FINAL REPORTSUPPORT FOR ESTABLISHMENT OF

ITS NATIONAL TECHNICALREGULATION/STANDARD (QCVN/TCVN)

JAPAN INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AGENCY (JICA)KATAHIRA & ENGINEERS INTERNATIONAL

ORIENTAL CONSULTANTSCENTRAL NIPPON EXPRESSWAY CO. LTD.

April 2014

THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAMMINISTRY OF TRANSPORTDIRECTORATE FOR ROADS OF VIETNAM

JRJR14-083(4)14-083(4)

EIEI

TABLE OF CONTENTS

MAIN REPORT

1. Background 1

2. Objectives of Work 1

3. Definition of Standards 1

4. Issues Pointed out by JICA Expert and Adopted Measures 3

5. Reviewed Results on Draft QCVN/TCVN by JICA Expert 4

6. Issues for Finalizing QCVN/TCVN and Required Measures 4

APPENDIX

1. LOW ON STANDARDS AND TECHNICAL REGULATIONS

2. RECOMMENDATIONS AND REVIEWEDE RESULTS BY JICA EXPERT

3. DRAFT QCVN OF TRAFFIC MONITORING AND MANAGEMENT FOR

EXPRESSWAYS

4. DRAFT QCVN OF CCTV CAMERA SYSTEM FOR EXPRESSWAYS

5. DRAFT QCVN OF VMS SYSTEM FOR EXPRESSWAYS

6. DRAFT QCVN OF COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR EXPRESSWAYS

7. DRAFT QCVN OF ETC SYSTEM FOR EXPRESSWAYS

8. MANAGEMENT CENTER/OFFICE FOR EXPRESSWAYS

9. QCVN SCHEDULE

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Support for Establishment of ITS National Technical Regulations/Standards (QCVN/TCVN)

1. Background

In Vietnam, the expressway network being constructed by sections funded respectively by

different donors, it has become an important issue how operate such sectioned network in an

integrated manner. Focussing on this issue and striving toward implementation of the ITS

Integration Project and development of the ITS Standards, the Study for Supporting ITS

Standards & Operation Plan Development in Vietnam and the Special Assistance for Project

Implementation (SAPI) for ITS Integration Project on New National Highway No.3 & Northern

Area of Vietnam had been conducted for two years up to August 2012.

Through the series of studies, the system architecture and system policies the most suitable

for Vietnam were reasoned out responding to the ITS User Services, which were defined

as the Needs for ITS in Vietnam in the ITS Mater Plan, and the Draft ITS Standards were

developed based on them.

With the passage of time after that, it had become still more urgent to integrate ITS among

ongoing expressway projects and to establish an integrated ITS implementation method for

the project in future. The Government of Vietnam decided to develop the National Technical

Regulations/Standards on ITS and JICA had been requested to support the development.

Additionally, it had been requested to support the persons in DRVN (Directorate for Roads of

Vietnam) assigned as implementation organization of the ITS Integration Project in improving

their understanding of ITS at the same time; because of their insufficient understanding on

the Draft ITS Standards due to nonparticipation in the series of studies up to SAPI.

2. Objectives of Work

Objectives of the Work is to provide support to the Sub-Groups of standardization and the

persons in DRVN and other organizations, who are in charge of ITS in Vietnam, in improving

understanding of the Draft ITS Standards prepared in SAPI, and to assist the development

of the National Technical Regulations/Standards based on the understanding.

3. Definition of Standards

The following two kinds of standards are defined by the Law No: 68/2006/QH11 on Standards

and Technical Regulations (See Appendix-1) in Vietnam:

QCVN (National Technical Regulation)

TCVN (National Technical Standards).

QCVN is placed in the highest position of the standards and provides basic requirements to

be complied with by every project. On the other hand, TCVN shows provisions to be referred

to by respective projects but do not need to be complied with. Eight Sub-Groups have been

set up to develop QCVN (or TCVN) for respective parts of ITS.

Table 1 List of Meetings with Sub-Group Leaders

1st Dispatch 2

nd Dispatch 3

rd Dispatch 4

th Dispatch

Sub-Group Leader

& Other Member Meeting

Sending

Letter Meeting

Sending

Letter Meeting

Sending

Letter

Sending

Letter Meeting

Dr. Hoang Ha

(MOT/DOST)

Hoangha@mt.gov.vn

(5)

13/09/16

14/01/21

MOT

Mr. Nguyen Van Ich

(MOT/DOST)

ichnv@mt.gov.vn

(3)

13/12/18

(1) - (8)

All

14/01/21

Mr. Nguyen Tuan Anh

(MOT/DOST)

anhnt@mt.gov.vn

(8)

13/09/23

(3)

13/12/18

(1) - (8)

All

14/01/21

14/03/05

(2),(4)

14/03/14

14/03/18

Sub-

group 1

TCVN on ITS System

Architecture

Mr. Nguyen Dinh Khoa

(ITST)

nguyendinh_khoa@yahoo.com.vn

(3)

13/09/13

13/09/18

(6)

14/01/22

14/03/10

(1)

14/03/13

Sub-

group 2

QCVN on Traffic

Monitoring & Management

for Expressways

Mr. Pham Hong Quang

(CadPro)

quang@cadpro.vn

(4)

13/09/13

13/09/18

13/12/18

(1)

14/01/20

14/03/10

Sub-

group 3

QCVN on Traffic Database

and Message System for

Expressways

Mr. Van Van Trung

(MOT/ITC)

chungvv@mt.gov.vn

13/09/18

13/12/18

(8)

14/01/23

14/03/10

Sub-

group 4

QCVN on CCTV Camera

System for Expressways

Mr. Chu Quang Trung

(MOT/ITC)

trung@mt.gov.vn

(6)

13/09/19

13/09/18

(2)

13/12/17

(2)

14/01/20

14/03/10

Sub-

group 5

QCVN on VMS System for

Expressways

Nguyen Anh Tuan

(ITST)

anhtuan.itst@gmail.com

13/09/18

(4)

13/12/19

(5)

14/01/22

14/03/10

(1)

14/03/13

Sub-

group 6

QCVN on Communication

System for Expressways

Mr. Le Thanh Tung

(MOT/ITC)

tunglt@mt.gov.vn

(1)

13/09/10

13/09/18

(2)

13/12/17

(4)

14/01/22

14/03/10

Sub-

group 7

QCVN on ETC System for

Expressways

Mr. Pham Duc Long

(ITD)

long.pham@itd.com.vn

(2)

13/09/11

13/09/18

(1)

13/12/16

(7)

14/01/23

14/03/10

(3)

14/03/14

Sub-

group 8

QCVN on Management

Centers/Offices for

Expressways

Mr. Ta Tuan Anh

(CadPro)

tuananh@cadpro.vn

13/09/18

13/12/18

(3)

14/01/20

14/03/10

Others

Dr. Nguyen Quang Tuan

(ITST)

(7)

13/09/19

(6)

14/01/22

mailto:Hoangha@mt.gov.vnmailto:ichnv@mt.gov.vnmailto:anhnt@mt.gov.vnmailto:nguyendinh_khoa@yahoo.com.vnmailto:quang@cadpro.vnmailto:chungvv@mt.gov.vnmailto:trung@mt.gov.vnmailto:anhtuan.itst@gmail.commailto:tunglt@mt.gov.vnmailto:long.pham@itd.com.vnmailto:tuananh@cadpro.vn

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4. Issues Pointed out by JICA Expert and Adopted Measures

The following issues were pointed out through the four times of JICA Expert Dispatch and

the measures below have been adopted to resolve them.

(1) The 1st Draft QCVN/TCVNs developed respectively by Sub-Groups included the contents

outside the range of provisions defined in the Draft ITS Standards prepared in SAPI in

the manner (b) below, although DOST had instructed, at the beginning, the Sub-Group

Leaders shown in Table 1 to describe the provisions of QCVN/TCVN based on the results

of SAPI in the manner (a) below.

Figure 1 Range of Discussion on QCVN/TCVN

(a) Range of Discussion based on SAPI (b) Range of Existing Discussion on 1st Drafts

That was due to the fact that more than half of the Sub-Group Leaders did not participate

in the series of studies up to SAPI. It led to an extremely difficult situation that such leaders

had to judge the appropriateness of items, without evident reasons of necessity discussed

in SAPI and any track records in Vietnam, for the description in QCVN/TCVN.

Adopted Measures JICA Expert enumerated the primary items to be described in

QCVN/TCVN, reviewed the descriptions of the items and presented the reviewed results

directly to the Sub-Group Leaders. The results are to be shown in the next section.

(2) The 1st Drafts prepared by respective Sub-Groups included various too strict descriptions

as the basic regulations in QCVN.

Adopted Measures JICA Expert exemplified the too strict descriptions respectively for

Sub-Group Leaders and DOST instructed to remove such descriptions from the Drafts.

(3) Since the discussion on System Architecture in Sub-Group 1 had been postponed until after

April 2014 due to the necessity of time for understanding, the discussions in respective

Sub-Groups had to be conducted without clear structure of ITS. For this reason, it had

become an urgent issue to assure conformity of the System Architecture to be prepared in

Sub-Group 1 with the study results of SAPI and the discussion results of other Sub-Groups.

Adopted Measures In consideration of the recommendation by JICA