Integrating the CIQ System at the Fourth Thai-Lao Friendship Bridge with Localities for Effective Border Management

10.2478/bjlp-2022-004114

Abstract

This study evaluates the CIQ system at the Fourth Thailand-Lao PDR Friendship Bridge in Chiang Khong District, Chiang Rai Province, and finds a model of borderland management for Chiang Khong to handle future changes. Documentary research, in-depth interviews, and focus groups were used to obtain information from Chiang Rai's public and commercial stakeholders between February 2014 and March 2015. Current spatial development in Chiang Khong is incompatible with the change. Locals worry about the Friendship Bridge's long-term economic implications and the CIQ system's fairness to the local population's share of development. Due to multiparty tensions in development administration, local administrative capability and collaboration remain ill. The research project examined ways to adapt Chiang Khong's spatial development administration to resemble a sustainable transportation city. One idea was to create support units to make managing the integrated borderland easier and to create a special local administrative body to provide local administrative bodies additional power.