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is on major crashes involving several fatalities. and drivers of minivans, SUVs, and buses. The goals of this plan are to achieve continuous decreases in fatalities, to reduce serious crashes and to attain fatality rates per vehicle that would be parable to moderately developed countries. The involved major institutions are ministryaffiliated research institutions, such as the Research Institute of Highway Ministry of Transport and Traffic Management Research Institute of the Ministry of Public Security. In addition, some universities are involved in these activities. Most influential organizations (outside of the government) There are no influential organizations outside of the government. Key research institutes Traffic Management Research Institute (under the Ministry of Public Security) focuses on the following areas: research in trafficsafety theory, methods of preventing traffic crashes, techniques of managing traffic information, techniques of controlling traffic, rules for managing traffic, licensing techniques for traffic management, quality inspection of trafficsafety products, training of trafficmanagement officers, development of intelligenttransportation technical products, collection of national roadcrash data, publishing of monthly review and annual statistics, developing vehicle standards, and enforcement. Research Institute of Highway Ministry of Transport (under the Ministry of Transport) studiesroadsystem planning and design, technologies for transportation management, intelligent transportation, road and bridge construction techniques,standards, and logistics. Major barriers to improvement At the institutional level, there is a lack of a specific government organization with sufficient authority and resources to promote road safety. The actual responsible organization at each level of admi