Overcrowding trains during peak hours in Malaysia

Draft:

Important point:

1. Definition of trains
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/train

2. What is peak hour

Example: Putra LRT
The peak hours are from 7am to 9am and 4pm to 7pm from Monday to Friday, and
Saturday from 7am to 9am and noon to 2pm
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319115907_Review_on_Malaysian_Rail_Tr
ansit_Operation_and_Management_System_Issues_and_Solution_in_Integration

3. Train system in Malaysia

https://www.spad.gov.my/land-public-transport/rail/railing-future

4. Overcrowding trains at kl
From a Railway Carriage
Faster than fairies, faster than witches,

Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches;

And charging along like troops in a battle

All through the meadows the horses and cattle:

All of the sights of the hill and the plain

Fly as thick as driving rain;

And ever again, in the wink of an eye,

Painted stations whistle by.

Here is a child who clambers and scrambles,

All by himself and gathering brambles;

Here is a tramp who stands and gazes;

And here is the green for stringing the daisies!

Here is a cart runaway in the road

Lumping along with man and load;

And here is a mill, and there is a river:

Each a glimpse and gone forever!

Robert Louis Stevenson

5. Ineffective management and operation of transportation systems

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319115907_Review_on_Malaysian_Rail_Tr
ansit_Operation_and_Management_System_Issues_and_Solution_in_Integration

6. Understanding Passenger Perceptions and Behaviors During Unplanned Rail

Disruptions
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352146517306294

7. Operating hours
https://www.myrapid.com.my/traveling-with-us/how-to-travel-with-us/rapid-
kl/monorail-and-lrts/operating-hours

https://www.myrapid.com.my/traveling-with-us/how-to-travel-with-us/rapid-
kl/mrt/operating-hours-and-fares

8. Night tube in London run a 24-hour service on Friday and Saturday

https://tfl.gov.uk/campaign/tube-improvements/what-we-are-doing/night-tube#on-
this-page-0

9. S
10. s

11. The notion that passengers are being crammed into trains like cattle or cramped like
sardines in a small tin on the trains is also not uncommon elsewhere (Cox, Houdmont,
& Griffiths, 2006).

12. Punctuality of Intercity Trains and Passengers’ Perspective towards Arrival Time
Delay.
 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/290634309_Punctuality_of_Intercity_Trains
_and_Passengers'_Perspective_towards_Arrival_Time_Delay

13. MRT SBK Line facilities ( number of train & etc)

https://www.myrapid.com.my/traveling-with-us/how-to-travel-with-us/rapid-kl/mrt

14. Literature review

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/307526754_Public_Transport_Crowding_V
aluation_Evidence_from_College_Students_in_Guangzhou

15. Land public transport act 2010

https://www.spad.gov.my/sites/default/files/pad-act2010.pdf

16. Based on related research achievements by Jiang et al. (2012) and Qin and Jia (2012,
2014), crowding levels were described as shown in Table 1.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/307526754_Public_Transport_Crowding_V
aluation_Evidence_from_College_Students_in_Guangzhou

17. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/307526754_Public_Transport_Crowding_V
aluation_Evidence_from_College_Students_in_Guangzhou

18. My Rapid Train Frequency

https://www.myrapid.com.my/traveling-with-us/how-to-travel-with-us/rapid-
kl/monorail-and-lrts/train-frequency

19. Preliminary Assessment and Prioritization of Demand

Management Strategies for Reducing Train Overcrowding
http://www.pertanika.upm.edu.my/Pertanika%20PAPERS/JSSH%20Vol.
%2026%20(1)%20Mar.%202018/29%20JSSH-2076-2017-3rdProof.pdf

20. 2.5.2 Train capacity of Kelana Jaya Line

http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/9877/1/Muhammad_Farhan_Mohd_Arif.pdf

21. An efficient and effective public transportation system can help abate the negative
externalities of private car use (such as congestion, air and noise population,
accident and fuel consumption) without excessively penalizing user travel times or
zone accessibility

22. Government should increase budget on development of trains

- The Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng is reducing the project costs of LRT3
including the reducing order of 42 sets of six-car trains to 22 sets of three-car
trains. The effectiveness of reducing the overcrowding of trains may be affected.
 Government should keep the order of 42 sets of six-car trains in order to maximize
the goal of LRT3, which is reducing the overcrowding of trains in Malaysia.
https://www.thestar.com.my/business/business-news/2018/07/12/final-price-of-
lrt3-reduced-by-47pct-to-rm16pt63b-says-prasarana/

23. Extend service of trains

- Extend to 2am or even full day operate
- New York City subways runs 24 hour a day

24. Unlicensed hawkers

- Block walkway
- Increase punishment & be driven away
- Law of Malaysia, Act 336 Minor Offences Act 1955, 27 (a)
http://www.agc.gov.my/agcportal/uploads/files/Publications/LOM/EN/Act
%20336.pdf

Possible Solution:

25. Use other public traffic : bus

https://www.spad.gov.my/land-public-transport/buses/making-buses-more-attractive-
option

26. Using private transportation : car, motor

- Motor :
i. Free tol fees
ii. Very low maintenance, insurance fees and fuel fees, < RM100
iii. Very low price & cheap installment – new motorcycle’s price start from
RM 3000
https://www.motomalaysia.com/category/best-motorcycle-under-rm6k-
malaysia/?orderby=Price_Code&order=ASC

iv. Avoid traffic jam

- Car :
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27. Strategies for reducing train overcrowding

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324106394_Preliminary_Assessment_and_
Prioritisation_of_Demand_Management_Strategies_for_Reducing_Train_Overcrowdi
ng