The Land Transport Department will ask operators of interprovincial buses to install devices similar to ‘’black boxes’’ found in airplanes to monitor driver behaviour and reduce road accidents.
Department director-general Teerapong Rodprasert said on Friday that the department will this month meet with bus lines across the country to seek their cooperation in installing the black boxes in their buses. This technology will monitor the behaviour of drivers and this would help cut road accidents, he said.
Earlier, the department launched a pilot project to test the technology on interprovincial buses. It proved successful in reducing road accidents and saving fuel by 3.6%, said Mr Teerapong.
Sixty buses of the state-run agency were fitted with the devices under the pilot programme.