Vietnam's rapid economic growthcontinues to create new demands for transport infrastructureand services. Bottlenecks to business activities caused byinfrastructure constraints are already appearing in severalareas. High rates of urbanization, rising traffic accidents,new capacity constraints, and a large increase in assetpreservation requirements to meet the fast expansion oftransport assets presents further challenges to the sector.To address these infrastructure bottlenecks, and togradually remove the transport constraints on industry,Vietnam is embarking on an ambitious expressway developmentprogram. To date the transport sector has facilitated thisgrowth principally through the rehabilitation and wideningof existing arterial roads. The national road network hasexpanded to 17,000 km, the overall condition has improvedwith 66 percent of the network being in good and faircondition and 84 percent of the network is now paved. Iftraffic growth rates continue at their current rate theseconstraints could adversely impact future economicdevelopment. The successful development of an expresswaysystem is a significant physical and financial commitmentwhich will require a number of changes to laws, regulations,institutions and operations of the network.
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