Japan will provide 6.3 million USD for a project to develop a traffic control system for expressways in Hanoi.
An exchange note to this effect was signed on March 29 in Hanoi between the Vietnamese Ministry of Transport, the Japanese Embassy in Vietnam and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in Vietnam.
The project includes installing and putting the system into operation on Hanoi Belt Highway 3 from Highway 5 to Phap Vân and Cau Gie.
The project is scheduled to be carried out from the second quarter of 2012 to the fourth quarter of 2013.
Apart from building highways for socio-economic development in recent years, the Ministry of Transport and JICA have cooperated in applying the intelligent transport system (ITS) in Vietnam./.