Innovation of railways transportation in Malaysia

In peninsular Malaysia railway transportation industry, we have Keretapi Tanah Melayu Berhad (KTMB), KTM Komuter, KL Monorail, Express Rail Link (ERL), Light  Rail Transit(LRT), Star and Putra. This modes of transportation move both, passenger and freight. KTMB is the only rail that offers the long term journey service from Perlis (north) to Johor or Singapore (south) and Kelantan (east) Malaysia. KTMB is important in freight service because the rail network connect with seaport such as Penang Port, Kelang Port, Tanjung Pelepas Port and Tanjung Pagar. While other rail transportation such as KTM Komuter, KL Monorail, ERL, Star and Putra only provided short term journey and exist in busy city such as Kuala Lumpur.

To compare railways and motor carrier mode of transportation, the demand for motor carrier is high that railways. This happened because of the number of rail or the schedule of rail transport is not flexible. Which mean the journey not including all the region or area of the country. This does’ not mean to increase the number of terminal but more to increase the number of gondola and railways from new area connect with the terminal. So, the passenger will have more choice to use either rail or motor carrier.

According to Statistics Department of Malaysia, every years especially in seasonal period, the accident in road increase. The accident will affect to the damage of road, loss of living and property and traffic jam to other road passenger especially for freight service. They need to deliver the product to their customer on time, when something like this happened, they need other alternative to deliver the product to the customer if not, their customer services will be poor and affect the company names and reputation.

Based on five mode of transportation, road, air, sea, rail and pipeline. Sea in the most mode of transportation used  in logistics industry while rail is the less mode of transportation used in logistics industry. Normally, rail only brings the low value and in bulk quantity of product such as sand and coal. But, in Malaysia the rail transportation can be used for freight service for domestics or in Malaysia area such as for letter or online product in Malaysia. Since the possibility of accident in railways is less than roadways, the products can arrived on time.

In order to reduce the accident and traffic jam in roadway. The government should build more railways and increase the number of gondola and the speed of railways. So, people have many choices and can attract them to use railways services. In certain rail terminal in Malaysia, there was the double tracking of rail. This project gives the advantage to the people and the community in that terminal area to used the rail services frequently. Besides that, the rail service should be more speed compare to motor carrier since they have their on track. The rail company can use the resources such as green technology as the energy to move the rail. So they can keep the environment in good condition.The maintenance of the engine should be done frequently, so the live span of the rail can be longer. Malaysia can create the collaboration with other country’s rail company especially from Europe in order to increase the growth and the use of rail transportation whether in passenger or freight industry.

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