The Urban Transit Challenges

  Assalamualaikum and salam satu Malaysia to all viewer. For this post, our lecturer has giving a task for our group to share to all of you about the urban transit challenges. As we know, Malaysia is the country that use many types of business. For example, for transportation sector in business, our country may use the import and export of goods. So, there are many rules makes by government that we should follow to sustainability our stability of country. For our task, we need to do studies about transit challenges of urban transit in Malaysia. There are several challenges that the transit system of a city may face.

  Firstly, based on what we have discussed the regulation is the most important in every country. So, in term of Malaysia regulation, there are many types of rules in transportation that we need to know. As example, the trucking industry has received favourable tax treatment for payment of highway construction and maintenance  As has been seen in our country, transportation does not operate in a completely free-market environment. Regulatory constraints to entry, pricing, and customer relations have dictated the management practices of carriers of transportation even after the deregulation. We cannot broke the rules that government prevent for our citizen. If we broke the rules, government will appear in law-court. It also has assumed the responsibility to ensure the safety of travellers.

  Next, after we sitting in traffic jam for over an hour, our blood pressure begins to rise and our temper are of the scale. You can’t understand why all these drivers are on this highway at this time. They should be at home, shopping or anywhere else except here on his roadway at this time. The traffic jam should be happen in transit system of a city. This is because there are many of transportation drives in this urban side. So traffic jam can challenges transit in this situation.

  Lastly, decentralization and suburbanization have created an urban space of lower density that cannot be efficiently serviced by mass transit systems outside specific corridors. Under such circumstances, transit is limited to a part of the city and a city-wide service becomes prohibitive. Access to urban transit systems can also be a challenge, notably when connectivity between the transit city and its suburbs is complex. The goal is to offer enough incentives, such as park-and-ride facilities, so that the interface between the transit and non-transit transport system is improved. Even within the transit city, the fixity of main transit lines creates challenges which are extremely difficult to overcome as new travel patterns that are not supported by urban transit can emerge.