Wednesday December 1, 2010
Eye on Klang Valley buses
KUALA LUMPUR: The Government is looking at ways to reshape an integrated programme to monitor traffic and road accidents and to boost public bus services. Land Public Transport Commission (SPAD) chief executive officer Mohd Nur Ismal Mohamed Kamal said the Integrated Transportation and Information System (ITIS) was now being used to monitor traffic, accidents, construction and other situations on roads and highways.
“We are exploring the possibility of repurposing ITIS to become the Performance Management Hub to monitor, among others, the performance of the bus services in Klang Valley,” he said in a statement yesterday. Mohd Nur Ismal said the hub would be implemented in stages, beginning next year and was expected to be fully functional by 2012.
Smooth ride: Kong speaking to reporters on the LRT yesterday while SPNB technical director Zulkifli Yusoff (right) and SPAD chief operating officer Shahril Mokhtar look on in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. — Bernama
“It will serve as a data management centre where the relevant agencies will work together and exchange information. The information will be transmitted live from the operators directly to the hub for effective performance monitoring,” he said.
The hub, he added, served specific functions in regulating public transport, monitoring compliance and enforcing the Public Land Transport Act and eventually would be extended to other states.
Transport Minister Datuk Seri Kong Cho Ha, meanwhile, said final upgrading works at several light rail transit (LRT) stations was expected to be completed by the middle of next year. Among them was to upgrade facilities and to build a common concourse at the Masjid Jamek and Kelana Jaya stations that would cost RM8mil, he said.
