On August 29, 2019, the Ministry of Transport issued Circular No. 31/2019 / TT-BGTVT providing regulations on speed and safe distance of motor vehicles and special-use vehicles participating in road traffic. This Circular takes effective from October 15, 2019.
According to the above provisions, the maximum speed allowed for motor vehicles (except for those specified in Article 8 of this Circular) to join traffic in densely populated areas (except highways).
Double track; one-way roads with two or more motor lanes of 60 (km / h);
A two-way street; one-way roads with one motorized lane of 50 (km / h).
Explain the concept of motor vehicles, according to the provisions of Clause 18, Article 3 of the 2008 Road Traffic Law: “Motor vehicles include cars; tractor; trailers or semi-trailers pulled by cars or tractors; two-wheel motorcycles; three-wheel motorcycles; motorbikes (including electric motorbikes) and the like ”.
According to Article 8 of Circular No. 31/2019 / TT-BGTVT: “Maximum speed allowed for special-use vehicles, motorbikes (including electric motorbikes) and similar vehicles on roads (except roads highways for special-use motorbikes, mopeds (including electric motorbikes) and the like when participating in traffic with the maximum speed of not exceeding 40 km / h ”.
Besides, according to the provisions of Circular No. 06/2016 / TT-BGTVT: “Promulgating the national technical regulation on road signs”
“3.39. Motorbikes (also called motorbikes) are two- or three-wheeled motor vehicles and the like, driven by engines with a cylinder capacity of 50 cm3 or more, with a vehicle self-weight not exceeding 400 kg for 2-wheel motorbikes or the permitted transportable volume determined according to the certificate of technical safety and environmental protection inspection of road motor vehicles from 350 kg to 500 kg for 3-wheel motorbikes . This concept does not include motorcycles mentioned in Clause 3.40 of this Article ”.
“3.40. Motorcycle means a motor-powered vehicle with two or three-wheelers and the maximum design speed not exceeding 50 km / h. If the drive is a heat engine, the working capacity or equivalent capacity should not be larger than 50 cm3 ”.
Thus, according to the above concept, motorbikes and mopeds are two different concepts, according to which, there is now some information that people are worried about that two-wheeled motorbikes can run at no more than 40km/h is incorrect.