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Soon, Ho Chi Minh City will pilot installing wireless Internet on bus routes to attract residents to use this type of public transportation.
This unit informs that the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Transport has agreed to implement this service for free on many other bus routes in the city.
To carry out this plan, the Ho Chi Minh City Transport Cooperative Federation is expected to collaborate with some media companies to provide Wi-Fi equipment. In return, businesses can exploit some advertising services inside the bus.
Ho Chi Minh City currently has over 3,000 buses operating on 270 routes, meeting about 7% of the people's travel needs. The city's target by 2015 will be 15%. According to the city's bus development plan for the period 2011-2015 approved by the Department of Transport, the city will purchase 1,680 new buses with a budget of nearly 2,000 billion dong.
In recent times, the city's transportation sector has implemented numerous programs to attract people to use public passenger transport, such as lucky draws, constructing free parking lots for passengers, addressing rude conductors... However, buses have not truly become a common means of transportation for people, and many still regard buses as 'demons'. Therefore, the deployment of Wi-Fi installation can be seen as a new effort of the city's transportation sector to increase the attractiveness of buses, attracting more people to use them.
According to the Ho Chi Minh City Institute for Development Studies, analysis of over 7,000 feedback from bus passengers to the Public Passenger Transport Operations Center of Ho Chi Minh City shows that the main issues are discrimination against passengers (8.5%), skipping stops without picking up passengers (23.9%), not allowing passengers to get off at stops (7.86%), and poor behavior (19.4%). The rest are reflections related to tickets, safety, routes, and time.
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Source: Travel guide Mytour – Via: VnExpress
MytourNovember 11, 2015
