SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORTATION IN FUTURE

Malaysia has a good development until today and we as Malaysian should be proud and appreciate with the facilities that we had currently. As we know, there are many ways that government applied to ensure our country become familiar in the world especially in term of logistics management.  The government have to take an action to ensure sustainable transportation in future and community use it.

TRANSPORT PARTICIPANTS

1) SHIPPER AND CONSIGNEE
 
The shipper and consignee have a common interest in moving goods from origin to destination within a given time at the lowest cost. Services related to transportation include specified pickup and delivery times,predictable transit time, and zero loss and damage as well as accurate and timely exchange of information and invoicing,

MODE SELECTION ( SELECTION OF TRANSPORTATION )

The choice of the three arrangement that is private, contract, common carrier depends on a variety factors, but the most important is the level of commitment and risk the shipper is willing to accept. In a stable environment, where the cargo volume, origin, destination and timing of shipments are stable, it is more likely that private or contract carriage more cost effective. There are three carriage that is :

"DRIVE LESS, SAVE MORE"

Our group will be discuss about the advantages and disadvantages of using the carpool and using the public transportation. Based on our research, nowadays many of people in Malaysia and also another country already practise this campaign that is ‘DRIVE LESS, SAVE MORE”. This campaign had invited the road user to practise campaign. That is because there are many advantages that people can get from the campaign that government make is “DRIVE LESS, SAVE MORE”. For example we can share the car and we can use the public transportation such as cab, bus and train.

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.

THE RATIONAL TRANSPORTATION REGULATION AND POLICY IMPLEMENTED BY GOVERNMENT

Regulation and policy are very important in transportation. Every country also has their own regulation and policy in order to avoid congestion and to ensure the safety of users. There are many rational the regulation and policy that are implemented by government in Malaysia. Regulation and policy give many effects especially to environment, safety and economy. In term of environment, each transport has their limit of smoke in order to reduce rate of air pollution. Government provide transport to carry the waste from the factory to keep our environment clean and unpolluted awake.

CHARACTERISTIC OF FREIGHT MODE

As we know, in logistics, there are five modes of transportation that is road, rail, pipeline, air, sea. But, here i would like to focus on road freight (road transportation). Do you know what is freight road and the characteristics? Freight road in simple meaning means road of transportation such as truck, lorry, bus and others. Based on five modes of transportation in logistic, road transportation are the most famous and frequently use by many organisation to transport their goods.