The Problem Of Crowded Trains In Malaysia

Introduction

Malaysians are becoming more cosmopolitans, whereby there have learned to utilize the public transportation. Railway transportation is one way the public are able to reach their destinations. In Malaysia there are few organizations on railway business such as KTM, RapidKL, LRT, STAR LRT and MRT. According to Hasnan (2012) that KTM Commuter is an electrified commuter train service first introduced in 1995, catering especially to commuters in Kuala Lumpur and the surrounding suburban areas. KTMB provides 248 commuter services daily, serving 45 stations along 175 route kilometres. The network consists of three lines: Rawang-Seremban Route, Sentul-Port Klang Route, and Rawang – Kuala Kubu Baharu Shuttle route. This essay consists of general issues and problems public transportation facing by system in Kuala Lumpur is a lack of focus and coordination at all levels throughout the system. The government needs to take a serious consideration to implement some solution that will help to ease crowded trains in Malaysia.

Causes of Crowd

Technical Citing Delays in the KTM

Komuter services generally occur because of several reasons which include technical failures and theft of signalling cable and equipment. Most of the KTM Commuter delays here especially Seremban – Kuala Lumpur due to technical failure. Many of the updates made during this period were to inform commuters about delays, frequently mentioning “defective tracks”, “defective sets”, “speed restrictions”, “train failure”, “operational problems”, “technical problems”, and “vandalism” as the reason. When multiple trains are late by 10 to 15 minutes, KTM Commuter describes this as “minor delays”.

Traffic Causes by Road

It’s been ages the Malaysians complaint about road traffics between the peak hoursespecially those are working at the Capital City, Kuala Lumpur. Second, while public transportation is often said to perform better than road transportation with respect to many environmental externalizes, such comparisons usually assume otherwise identical conditions (e. g. , speed, capacity utilization, etc. ). Following this statement people mind set assume that railway transportation will solve delay cause by the road traffic but it only realize when the arrival of the train at platform whereby it will be packed with frustrated faces of people inside there.

Increase in Petrol Cost

Beside the two causes of crowded at train stations, one of the main reasons is the increment of petrol cost in our country. According public getting public transportation to work is much cheaper and economical if compare of four wheels or even owning own car. “Public transport the ticket as petrol goes crazy – Melbourne is facing what could become its greatest petrol crisis as prices surged towards $1. 40 this week and motorists, governments and transport experts scrambled to respond. Transport Minister Peter Batchelor yesterday confirmed that petrol prices were causing a jump in public transport use, leading to questions about whether the system could cope with an influx of commuters”.

Solution to Ease Crowd

Tear out the Seats

French owned Connex the biggest commuter train company serving London and the South East has admitted to MP’s that it is ‘experimenting’ with removing seats to give the travelling public a more comfortable journey to work. This was an unorthodox approach which was suggested years back to overcome overburdened rail network in Britain.

Schedule More Train at Peak Hours

In Japan, combination of vertically integrated operators, operators of train and track authorities who cloud even be non-railway companies such as airports. This technical arrangement will able the operators to communicate and avoid overlapping the train schedule.

Real-Time Subway Tracking

Randall John Gregory, a college student persuading a Master Degree in Branding at the School of Visual Arts in New York City suggested in his blog a concept for an electronic sign that displays the passenger capacity of subway train cars.

Conclusion

The demands are there to be exploited thus making railway transportation system the future of Malaysian public mobility network. The possible integration of the network which has started with the urban rail transit in Kuala Lumpur looks promising linking the Putra Line, Star Line and Monorail system will be an advantage to the public commuters. Therefore with all these suggestion the Malaysian can hope for more systematic and reliable railway transportation in future.