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Vietnam and Cambodia, two of the poorest countries in Asia, are currently undergoing accelerated changes in their domestic economies. Vietnam has been moving toward a free-market system since the collapse of communism in the former Soviet Union, and Cambodia experienced an economic surge from the recent presence of 22,000 United Nations personnel involved in a comprehensive peacekeeping mission. A rapid increase in the number and use of motor vehicles (MVs), especially motorbikes, has accompanied these developments and contributed to significant deterioration in traffic safety and congestion. The capital cities of Hanoi and Phnom Penh are major activity centers whose residents traditionally have depended on nonmotorized vehicles (NMVs), especially bicycles and cyclos (pedicabs), for performing functions vital to maintaining their livelihoods. Although economic conditions in these countries have encouraged rapid motorization, roadside traffic counts in mid-1992 showed that NMVs still accounted for 50 to 70% of all vehicle volumes in these two cities. Local government officials, however, have expressed views hostile toward NMVs, and in Hanoi plans have been made to abolish all NMVs from operating within the city by the year 2004. Officials in Hanoi and Phnom Penh should take a more balanced approach to transport planning by including needs of NMV users with those of MV users. Not only would affordable NMV facility improvements, such as the provision of spatial and temporal separation measures, ensure that all residents, including the poor, maintain reasonable access, but they would probably improve citywide traffic safety and congestion as well.

This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1441, Nonmotorized Transportation Around the World. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved

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1994

Transportation Research Record

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Alternatives analysis; Human powered vehicles; Motor vehicles; Needs assessment; Nonmotorized transportation; Traffic congestion; Traffic safety; Transportation planning

Motorized bicycles; Options; User needs

Hanoi (Vietnam); Phnom Penh (Cambodia)

Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Safety and Human Factors; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

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