THE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION ISSUES

Nowadays, many current issues happen in Malaysia especially in logistics management. The example of issues that recently happen in logistics management are public transportation. As we know, our Prime Ministry has make investment to provide many facilities include public transport at many places in Malaysia. That will make easier for Malaysian people to using this transportation. For example in Kuala Lumpur, we already have LRT, commuters and also bus systems. The public transport is always used by offices worker because they did not have their own vehicles to go to their office and also in order to save the cost. However, as we can see many people include students also use the public transportation as their daily vehicles.
That can reduce the congestion that always happen at the roadway and usually involves heavy vehicles such as bus, lorry and berth. In Malaysia, the cost to using the public transportation becomes increasing compare with another country. This is because the maintenance cost for public transportation is increasing. Besides that, the price of fuel also increases and it may effect to the cost of transportation. In addition, our public transportation system is still languishing in a bottomless pit of train delays, erratic time schedules, low quality buses and awful customer service. What we have notice is, the government had taken the wrong strategy in uplifting this problem. The government only focusing on the infrastructure. They thought that they could eliminate these problems by simply providing more trains or more buses. In the other hand, they had overlooked the much bigger problems facing the operators of the public transportation here. The chief among this problem is the profit sustainability of the business and itself. For far too long the transport operator such as Rapid KL is caught between the need to make profit and the need to retain some social responsibility. In reality, the problem within the public transportation is only exacerbated by the failure of the main vendor to provide high quality assets. For instance, what the asset operator had requested in terms of engineering specifications such as bus type and spare parts were not duly met by the supplier.