The Petaling Jaya City Council (MBPJ) is all set to adopt a new transport management software in August to help plot PJ’s public transport needs for the coming decade, theSun reports. According to PJ mayor, Mohd Azizi Mohd Zain, the council has been honing a model since April using PTV Visum and Vissim platforms.
“We have started to create a model to simulate future traffic conditions and incident management system, traffic impact study. This can help us to chart PJ transportation planning,” said Azizi. The move is seen as part of the council’s masterplan to achieve a 40% public transport ridership by 2030. In a nutshell, the system will simulate future traffic conditions and public transport needs in a specific area.
“The future planning of PJ would work on this. For example, any future development will go through this master software for traffic impact study or traffic condition and can help us chart our public transport plan for a particular area,” said Lee Suet Sen of MBPJ’s Master Traffic and Urban Transportation Plan committee.
Said platform will also aid the council on matters regarding the use of land in PJ. “The software will help us to decide whether we should have a transportation hub or pedestrian oriented development with the MRT or LRT,” the chairman added.
It is also understood that a total of five bus routes have been proposed around PJ hotspots including one that runs from Bandar Utama/Damansara Utama to neighbouring townships. Said move has been touted as a key step in the council’s plan to reduce the use of private vehicles, therefore easing up traffic congestion.
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Like the free-app, Waze, is much more effective. Government should fix their transport policy first. But they too afraid of no project, no rasuah.
This is MBPJ lah, under PR. Unless u r oso implying they makan rasuah. ;-)
I’m color blind to politics. What I meant was the authority must solve their policies issue. Or else, how you to have reliable arrival with highly unpredictable traffic on the road?
Just another project to burn our money.
Manyak pandai cakap, talk like expert only, do research here and there, hire experts konon, use latest system, cost millions of ringgit…………but implementation time, everything goes into the drain.
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Buat salah, tak buat salah. Stop talking cock, like current Greek Prime Minister. It is easier to complain and talk cock than to come up with and execute a practical solution.
All the city council shd collaborate to plan and build an effective transportation system, don’t waste our money pls.
They have initiated their move with the free bus and it is good, can’t complain at all. So, let them try with this simulation software or you offer another solution before waving your cock there.