...On the road The driver, vehicles and accident Number of drivers and vehicles continue to increase… Malaysia became one of automobile manufacturing countries since 1985 with the launching of the first national car. Production of the national cars increased from 80,000 to 240,000 units a year. Among the models are Wira, Waja, Exora, Kancil, MyVi, Viva and Alza. This scenario indirectly contributes to the increase in the number of registered vehicles and the number of registered drivers. Based on comparison between 2005 and 2009, the cumulative number of registered cars has increased by 31.4 per cent (2 million) and the cumulative number of registered motorcycles has increased by 27.6 per cent (1.9 million). Cumulative number of registered drivers recorded at 11.7 million, an increase of 17.8 per cent (1.8 million). Chart 9.1: Cummulative number of drivers, cars and motorcycles, Malaysia, 2005-2009 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 Million Drivers Cars Motorcycles Source: Department of Road Transport Malaysia 132 Proton Perdana Proton Inspira Proton Saga Number of accidents also increased The increasing number of vehicles and drivers are often associated with the total number of road accidents. In 2009, there were 397,194 road accidents recorded compared to 328,268 in 2005, an increase of 21 per cent. Out of the total, there were more accidents without injury compared to accidents with injury. The percentage of injury accidents decreased...
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...license in Malaysia be increased to 21 years old? Year by year the accident rate in Malaysia has been on a steady hike. Various factors are said to be the contributors for this hike. However, one prominent factor has been a topic for debate in recent years. It is claimed that newly licensed teenagers have helped to increase the number of serious accidents than any other group on the road. For this reason, I believe that the age of obtaining a driving license in Malaysia should be raised to 21 years old. Firstly, at the age of 21, humans leave their teenage years into early adulthood. During this period of life, humans gain more maturity physically and mentally. Mental maturity is an absolute requirement for all drivers. At a younger age, teenagers are fueled by a competitive lifestyle where everything seems to be race for them. This also happens on road where teenagers strive to overtake any drivers who drive faster than them. In turn, they endanger their own life and the life of others due to this immaturity. Secondly, once the minimum age is raised there will be lesser drivers on the road. If we only may get a driving license at the age of 21, then teenagers from the age of 17 to 20 years old will still not be driving. Consequently, there will be lesser drivers on the road which lead to a lower probability for accidents to occur. Besides, the more cars on the roads, the higher the probability of accidents to occur. This can be proven by the staggering number of accidents during...
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...1.0 Significant of Study This study is significant on discussing about how freight transport would bring to critical environmental issue to the society. 2.0 Problem Statement Freight transport has been identified that are causing three major problems, which are stated as below, (1) Increases of the road freight transport increase environmental issues along, (2) Some controversy relationship issue between transport growth and economic development, environmental and political factors, (3) Emission rise of Nitrogen Oxides (NOx), Hydrocarbons (HC), Carbon Monoxide (CO), and Carbon Dioxide (CO²) worsen the greenhouse effect. 2.1 Road freight transport and environmental issues. The freight transport in Europe by road, rail and waterway together has grown by about 60 per cent since 1970; especially road transport has more than doubled, while rail and waterway still remained static. In this case, there is involving an increasing number of road freight traffic that could cause towards the increasing of environmental problem. For a case in point, when heavy goods vehicles are being used to transfer goods from a point of origin to another destination, it could be leaking out pollutant material and energy emission that would be harmful to humans as well as flora and fauna. 2.2 Controversy relationship issue The relationships between transport growth and economic development are significantly different from those linking the economy to the energy sector generally. The energy...
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...International Conference on Traffic and Transportation Engineering (ICTTE 2012) IPCSIT vol. 26 (2012) © (2012) IACSIT Press, Singapore Private Vehicle Ownership and Transportation Planning in Malaysia Noresah Mohd Shariff + School of Distance Education Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 Penang Malaysia Abstract. This paper analyzes current trends in private vehicle ownership in Malaysia. For the past decades private vehicle ownership has increased tremendously in this country which is partly due to the economic growth, rapid urban development, population growth and inadequate public transport availability and services. In 2010, Malaysia has a population of 28.3 million, 17.4 million private vehicle automobiles and 11.7 million registered drivers. Traditionally, income has been hypothesized as a major determinant of private vehicle ownership. However, the spatial arrangement of urban fabric has becoming more important determinant of owning a vehicle. Other determinants such as government policy, auto vehicle financing, household characteristics and travel characteristics are also important. Therefore this paper is analyzing the spatial determinants of private vehicle ownership in Malaysia with a special reference to the Penang Island. Penang Island is located on the northeastern region of Malaysia and is an industrialized and a highly developed island. Penang Island has a population of 575,498 in 2000 and 740,200 in 2010, an increase of 29 percent for the last 10 years. In 2010 alone...
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...SAHHIDAN BIN HARUN 2010763693 The rise of motor accidents cases in Malaysia Hundred thousand of vehicles were involved in accidents years by years. The accidents also provided deaths, serious injuries, and minor injuries. It’s also presented damage to the public properties. The table shows that the increasing number of accidents between year 1984 until year 2006. In year 1984, the total casualties of the accidents was 25552 cases and the number of deaths are 3637 cases. Other is serious injuries, 5532 and minor injuries is 16383 cases. In year 1994, the total of accidents shown increasing almost to hundred percent (48508 cases) and the cases of deaths (5159 cases), serious injuries (13387 cases) and minor injuries (29957 cases) also increasing. In 2006, the number of the total casualties reduced to 35425 cases. The cases of serious injuries and minor injuries also dropped. But the cases of deaths, increased almost to two percent compare in year 1994. Therefore the government through the Road Safety Department should create more and mare road safety campaigns involve to the public, schools and universities to curb rising road accidents. Schools canteens, students are choosy Now days the students are different compare to 20 years ago. Today most of the student are very choosy about their food preferred by canteen at schools. Food at school is very limited. That why most of the students bring their own food to the school. The table shown that what is the...
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...dangerous activities the workers involved in this Oil and Gas industry. Besides that, human errors such as carelessness or recklessness, delays in equipment maintenance or repair, failure to give proper training, failure to properly communicate, and incompetent safety procedures are also main reason of safety concerns in petroleum sector. Meanwhile, the nature of industry itself might cause the accidents involving explosions, mishaps while raising pipeline, oil rig, salt dome accidents, and contamination in storage and derrick safety violations. The safety in oil and gas industry is growing but at the same time increases in oil and gas activity correlate with an increase in the rate of fatal occupational injuries, particularly when inexperienced workers are not sufficiently trained in safety and precautionary measures. The most common types of injuries are burns, brain injury, spinal injury and fractures. Petronas, who have oil projects all over the world also facing the safety concerns in their daily operations. According to 2011 Petronas Sustainability Report Fatal Accidents Rate is at 2.86. The report also mentions that there six contractor fatalities, three single...
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...front-line agencies were engaged from a functional-based one to sectorial-based one such as Construction Industry Development Board for accredited green card training in construction sector. DOSH has also published the Code of Practice for Road Transport Activities in 2010. Occupational Safety and Health service is provided to workers in small and medium enterprises via Deparment of Safety and Health SME Unit. The Occupational Safety and Health Master Plan from 2011 to 2015 was being enforced to reduce workplace accidents by 30% and fatal accidents by 20% by 2015. DOSH conducted health and safety legislation compliance audit and carried out 177,000 enforcement checks in all sectors of industry in the ealyfive months in the year 2013. DOSH has been carrying out promotions and conducting training to help raise occupational safety and health awareness among the...
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...to Ateneo, Miriam, and UP Diliman, pass through Katipunan, daily. Vehicles from these schools are not the only ones that use Katipunan, commercial and non-commercial vehicles do too. So, at traffic peak times which last about an hour at seven am to eight am and three pm to four pm, traffic on Katipunan is packed with not only cars but motorcycles, tricycles, buses and trucks, from not only the three schools but commercial and non-commercial vehicles too. According to Dr. Jose Regin F. Regidor’s study in the Philippine Engineering Journal, infrastructure that fails to serve its purpose and policies that are ineffectively implemented cause traffic. Road signs must be noticeable enough for drivers and pedestrians to actually read the signs, and concise enough so drivers and pedestrians have enough time to read and react to them. Road markings should be clear enough for drivers to...
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...2. Overall Description 2.1 Process Model……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………8 2.2 Work Break-down Structure……………………………………………………………………………………………….9 2.3 Data flow Diagram……………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 10 2.4 Tentative Schedule…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….11 2.5 Use-Case Model ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..12 3. Specific Requirement 3.1 Functional Requirements……………………………………………………………………………………………….....14 3.2 Non-Functional Requirements……………………………………………………………………………………………14 4. Conclusion 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 ABSTRACT Railways being the cheapest mode of transportation are preferred over all the other means. When we go through the daily newspapers we come across many railway accidents occurring at unmanned railway crossings. This is mainly due to the carelessness in manual operations or lack of workers. We, in this...
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...References 9 4.0 Question 6 (Bicycle Lanes) 10 4.1 Introduction 11 4.2 Purpose 11 4.3 Problem 11 4.4 Solution 12 4.5 Conclusion 12 4.6 References 12 5.0 Question 7 (License) 13 5.1 What is driving license? 13 5.2 Requirement and Procedure to get a driving license 13 5.3 References 15 1.0 QUESTION = Plagiarism has become an issue of growing concern across universities in Malaysia and internationally. Discuss. 1.1 What is plagiarism? Plagiarism means stealing another person’s works, ideas, research, language and thoughts and treated as one own original work. Plagiarism is originated from two Latin words; plagiaries which means an abductor and plagiary which means to steal. Plagiarism is a very serious issue especially for students across universities in Malaysia. 1.2 Types of plagiarism There are many types of plagiarism and among them are full plagiarism, minimalistic plagiarism and self-plagiarism. Full plagiarism refers to the whole content of the author’s original work being copied and passed off without any changes made and...
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...TUTORIAL 1 A. Making Inferences Read the texts below and make some inferences. Complete the sentence with one inference. 1. Malaysia is among the top 25 most dangerous countries for road users, with 30 fatalities per 100,000 individuals. According to research by the University of Michigan conducted by the university’s Transportation Research Institute using 2008 World Health Organisation (WHO) data on 193 countries, the February 2014 research lists Malaysia as 17th most dangerous for drivers. Federal traffic police chief Senior Asst Comm Datuk Mohd Fuad Abdul Latiff said motorcyclists and pillion riders formed the majority of the road accident deaths with 3,223 people killed this year or 62.7 per cent of the overall fatalities. Car drivers and passengers came in second with 963 fatalities - 18.7 per cent - while pedestrians made up about 7.6 per cent with 393 deaths. Although the author did not specifically state but expects the reader to infer that ………………………………………………………………………………………………. 2. Universiti Malaya Education Faculty dean Associate Professor Dr Mariani Mohd Nor, a psychologist, said applications like WhatsApp, have become a platform for young couples to express their anger during domestic conflicts. “WhatsApp helps to forge closer ties among family members, but it has been abused, especially by the young generation. “When they express anger by sending messages in WhatsApp, it can give a different perception and intonation from...
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...Contents 1.0 Introduction 3 1.1 Purpose 3 1.2 Scope of this report 3 1.3 Methodology 3 1.4 Limitations 3 2.0 Situation Analysis 4 2.1 Business Definition and Scope 4 2.1.2 Mission, Visions and Objectives of Packet One Networks 4 2.1.3 Products and Services Definition of P1 WiMAX 4 2.2 External Environment 5 2.2.1 Remote Environment Analysis 5 2.2.1.1 Economic Environment 5 2.2.1.2 Political/Legal Environment 6 2.2.1.3 Social Cultural Environment 6 2.2.1.4 Technological Environment’ 7 2.2.2 Near Environment Analysis 8 2.2.2.1 Porter’s 5 Forces Model 8 2.2.2.1.1 Rivalry among Present Competitors 8 2.2.2.1.2 Threat of New Entrants 9 2.2.2.1.3 Bargaining Power of Suppliers 9 2.2.2.1.4 Bargaining Power of Buyers 10 2.2.2.1.5 Threat from Substitute Products 10 2.2.2.2 Competitors Analysis 11 2.2.2.3 SWOT Analysis 12 2.2.2.3.1 Strength 13 2.2.2.3.2 Weakness 13 2.2.2.3.3 Opportunity 14 2.2.2.3.4 Threats 14 2.2.2.4.1 P1-Business Position 15 2.2.2.4.2 Market Attractiveness 16 2.2.2.4.3 GE Matrix Chart 16 2.2.2.5 Buyers Analysis. 16 3.0 Marketing Objectives, Strategies and Marketing Mix 17 3.1 Marketing Objectives 17 3.2 Financial Objectives 17 Marketing Strategy’s 17 3.3.1 Untapped Segment & Brand awareness 17 3.4 Product Life Cycle 18 3.5 Segmentations, Targeting and Positioning 19 5.0 P1WiMAX Marketing Tactics 22 5.1 Promotion 22 5.1.1 Events 23 5.1.2 Service availability in F&B outlets 24 ...
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...bin Long STUDENT’S PERSONAL DETAILS NAME : Pau Chiong Hing MATRIX. NO : 570416135561001 ADDRESS : 116 , Taman Siang, 95000 Sri Aman, Sarawak. PHONE : 019-8986891(H/P) 083-322961(R) EMAIL : pauch@oum.edu.my OCCUPATION : Site Safety Supervisor SPONSOR (IF ANY) : nil PROJECT TITLE : Case Study on the Occupational Safety and Health at SMK Senibong Construction Site, Lundu, Sarawak Table of Contents Page Acknowledgement i Declaration ii Abstract iii 1. Introduction 2.1 Research Background 1 2.2 Problem Statement 2 2.3 Objective of Study 3 2.4 Historical Perspective of Occupational Safety and Health in Malaysia 3 2. Literature Review 2.1 Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) 1994 7 2.2 Letter of Appointment of Contractor 10 2.3 Safety Manual of PN Construction Sdn Bhd 11 2.4 Organization Chart of Safety and Health Committee 13 2.5 Safety Statistic for SMK Senibong Project for year 2013 14 2.6 Occupational Safety and Health Issues in Construction 15 3. Research Methodology 3.1 Desktop Review 17 3.1.1 What is Tool-box Talk 21 3.1.2 Skill Level of Workers 23 3.2 HIRARC at Senibong Construction Site 23 3.3 Summary of Tool-box Talks at SMK Senibong Construction Site 26 3.4 Survey Questionnaire for Project XBTP4106 27 4. Data Analysis and Findings ...
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...commercials and films have been screened at the Berlin, san Francisco, Singapore international film festivals and the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival (not to be confused with the other Cannes Film Festival). Her films were featured in a special retrospective at the 19th Tokyo International Film Festival in October 2006. An April 2007 retrospective of her feature films was sponsored by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Hawaii, and the Honolulu Academy of Arts. In Singapore, Yasmin is best known for the pro-family commercials she did for the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports. Yasmin was inducted into the Malaysian Advertising Hall of Fame by the Association of Accredited Advertising Agents Malaysia in November 2008. Yasmin was working on her first feature film to be filmed in Singapore titled, "Go, Thaddeus!" when she died. This was to be an inspirational film for the 2010 Youth Olympic Games, based on the book, "Running the full distance: Thaddeus Cheong" by Belinda Wee about Singapore's 17 year old National triathlete who died after...
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...Moreover before arriving at a graduate program, I am currently working on last year project on ' Analysis to Reduce Accidents of Road User at Intersection using Hindrance.' This is again bit costly method to implement in traditional system. In this method we are using bollard system at intersection which will run with the help of solar power and will be connected to signal timer so that it will mitigate accidents and also traffic congestion. This system can also be beneficial near...
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