Courses to Fine Tune Traffic Management and Road Safety

Abstract

This study aims to investigate models, problems and causes of traffic safety management of agencies involved. The targeted areas were Bangkok, Chonburi, Chiangmai, Suratthani, and Khon Khaen. In-depth interview was conducted with the officers in the agencies responsible for traffic accident in relation to the managerial model, measures and courses in functional agencies involved. The results revealed that the major problem of the central agency in managing traffic was no host agency to manage, shortage of valid data collection system and the integration among agencies. The researchers proposed to appoint a committee and a host agency to replace the previous with repetitive working and disable to efficiently enforce law. The researchers proposed to enact law to specify the governmental revenue received from managing traffic or parts of using vehicles and roads to be the integrated budget. As of the local traffic administration, its agencies met limitations of knowledge to manage the traffic plans, shortage of cooperation. Roles of working in each local agency were still ambiguous and problem solving demands to form policy by various parties to allow the policy responsive to each other while being able to solve problems. As such, the behaviors of road users, it was proposed to establish the Traffic Court to reduce disputes, which might incur from injustice comparison between officers and people. It allowed people to see its importance of abiding in laws when traffic became problem and submitted to court; the drivers would fear and discourage to violate traffic rules.