road improvement may continue to have its place in locations where it can be demonstrated to be socially and environmentally justifiable and where proper maintenance can be provided but only in a broader context of other measures for these reasons policy recommendations must embrace broader solutions to problems that are longterm by their nature while also attempting to offer short and medium term measures that can assist with increasing the quality of life in vietnamese cities by making efforts to make transportation safer and greener first with road accidents being the second highest cause of death in viet nam chapter urban road safety is a pressing issue that must be urgently addressed