Bangkok’s governor, Chadchart Sittipunt, has promised to find effective solutions to the city’s traffic congestion within a year.
Chadchart stated during a meeting with the Traffic Police Division (TPD) that he plans to implement an intelligent traffic management system and form a joint working group to investigate the feasibility of doing so by next summer. The TPD, Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA), and the Ministry of Transport will be represented on the working group.
The joint working group will also include representatives from the Mass Rapid Transit Authority (MRTA), the Bangkok Mass Transit Authority, the Expressway Authority of Thailand, and 30 other Bangkok-based organizations, according to the governor.
According to Chadchart, several officials will be assigned roles at the center to coordinate aid during crisis situations and environmental catastrophes in BMA-managed districts.
One of the primary factors impeding Bangkok’s traffic management improvement, according to the former transport minister, is that traffic flow at major intersections is still manually controlled by traffic officers who are unaware of current traffic conditions in neighboring areas. The BMA and TPD executives will now meet once a month to discuss plans and evaluate their efforts to improve Bangkok traffic.
