HCMC – Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province is set to launch the second phase of a project to install smart traffic surveillance camera systems on national highways 55 and 56 on June 20, according to provincial authorities.

The camera systems will monitor the province’s sections of the national highways, the local media reported.

Camera installation work has been completed, and the camera systems are on a trial run.

In the first phase of the project, 89 traffic surveillance cameras were installed and put into operation on the National Highway 51 section in Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province in October 2021. The cameras were used to detect traffic violations on the section between Long Son intersection and Phu My town and helped reduce traffic violations on the section.

The traffic police have detected 13,433 traffic violations, and 3,566 of them were fined a combined VND14 billion.