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Objectives
To know the importance of planning in the
organisation.
To study the related information provided in the
industry analysis in making plan.
To know the examples of planning assessment in
making plan.
To know and updates the plan in transportation ?
To justify the preparation in short and long term
planning.
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Transport planning
The plan designates the response to three questions;
a. Where have we been ?
b. Where are we going ?
c. How do we get there

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Spatial planning
Spatial planning refers to the methods
used by the public sector to influence the
distribution of people and activities in
spaces of various scales.
Spatial planning includes all levels of land
use planning including urban planning,
regional planning, national spatial plans

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Spatial planning
Physical development

Office and commercial facilities

Education facilities

Public facilities

Recreation facilities
Parks
Nightlife
Transportation
Residential areas
Population
Technological Features
Communications
Backup electrical supply
District cooling
City Command Center

Data centers

Call centers

Office space

Others
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Local Transport Plan

Monitor traffic growth in order to assess the viability of
the policies and strategies contained within the Plan in
meeting the stated objectives
Assess the traffic impacts of different types of traffic
related schemes, so that such schemes can be
prioritised against the level of available resources;
Aid in assessing the traffic impact of developments as
part of development control;
Assess the traffic implications of options for local or
county transport strategies;
Assess opportunities for the transfer of mode from
private car to public transport;

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Assess the development of cycle routes in the County and
their impact on vehicular traffic;
Undertake a review of traffic on local roads by utilising
survey data to assess and monitor the growth of traffic
Aim towards reducing traffic on its roads by utilising traffic
management tools where appropriate, encouraging travel
awareness campaigns, and promoting public transport,
cycling and walking;
Develop a Public Transport model to calibrate a mode-split
resulting from various public transport measures and other

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Transport planner will help people to plan their journeys,
freight movement and to compare routes and prices. The
first publicly available for planning are expected to include:
Capacity to all modes or transport to cater the demand by
the public ,importer and exporters (record or timetabled)
and operating information;
Information on types of services ;
multi-modal travel information on the Internet, covering
road journeys as well as all public transport modes at a
single point of contact;
Booking of long-distance multi-modal journeys on the
internet;
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Objectives of transport planning

Transport Planning is being developed in Malaysia with key
objectives:
Making information and services available electronically to
the general public.
Modernising and improving any types of transport
To continue to invest in high quality travel information,
including Journey Solutions.
To provide the ability to purchase tickets for the journey
selected by providing links to the very successful.

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Plan formulation
Problem
identification/test

Goal formulation

OBJECTIVE
OBJECTIVE
DESIGN
DESIGN
PLANNING
PLANNING
SURVEY
SURVEY
ANALYSIS
ANALYSIS

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Produce
Alternative plan
Evaluating plans and
Implementation

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Proposed planning approach

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Planning layout
a. Issues/matters/subjects
Transportation Infrastructure
Transportation Services
Transportation Gaps
Transportation Needs
Non-Transportation Issues
Impeding Factors
b. Objectives (goals)
Develop goals based on all previous information and the
7 planning factors, along with Public Input
c. Action Plan (base on previous inventory, what is
needed, i.e. maintenance, new facilities, expanded
facilities, 5year-20 year)

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Cont..
Highway, Transit, Trails, Rail, Air, Pipeline,
Intermodal
Enhancements,
ITS
d. Financing (budget)
i. Costs (Match Action Plan) Be fiscally constrained
ii. Sources
iii. Federal State
iv. Local
v. Private
e. Plan Evaluation (postmortem)
i. Ministry of Transport (MOT) , Road Transport Department
and Majlis Keselamatan Jalan Raya (MKJR)
ii. Local - Local council , Town Planning , villages
requirements

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Management functions
Decision
making
Planning

Directing
and
motivating

Controlling

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Vehicles planning
Type of vehicle, horse power, fuel,
Driver and co, goods, goods,
safety, tires, equipment
Handling, fuel, safety, parking,
Waiting times, breakdowns,
Contact Person, manifest, doc,
Work ticket, routes, halts,
Refuel, rest, speed, types of job,
Tools, spares, monetary,
Permits, licensing, road tax,
inspections, regulatory
Requirements, checks,
Communication, journey, trips
Environments and etc..

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MOVEMENT PLANNING

Whse

P.mover

Road
seaport

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MAIN ROUTES -PLANNING

Penang

Kota Kinabalu
Kemaman
Kuantan

Sandakan

Miri

KUALA LUMPUR

Bintulu

Tawau

Port Klang
Sibu
Pasir Gudang
Tanjung Pelepas

Kuching

Fed road, highway, trunk ,bottle neck

Congestion, flood, prone accident,
Speed, distance and etc
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Tpt costs & planning components

Significant conditions that affecting tpt costs &
rates :

Geography
Types of product
Economic of scale
Energy
Trade imbalances engage overseas market
Infrastructure
Mode
Competition & regulation

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Trucking/ buses costing-justification

and planning
Cost Component

Cost Share Range

Driver

27 to 36%

Fuel

18 to 24%

Administration and Interest

13 to 14%

Equipment Ownership

7 to 12%

Repairs

7 to 12%

Insurance
Tires

3%
2 to 4%

Miscellaneous (Licenses, Cleaning,

etc.)

2 to 3%

Margin

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5%

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Planning strategy in transport

company
Some possible decision that would be made for each variable are
discussed
a. Product or services- Need to be considered all keeping in mind the
goal of satisfying customers needs. The reflect f effective customer
service program.
b. Customer service meeting customers need and what steps to be
used;
c. Pricing must be competitive and knowledge in competitors prices
d. Promotion- promoting of the services such as publicity ,media,
papers and advertisings should be well planned.
e. Coordination in planning process- Those involved in the planning
must be coordinated by the leader.
f. Designation responsibility for implementation- The important
person in the organisation should be responsible
g. Marketing strategy- The strategy and action programme should be
implemented
h. Monitoring progress of planning The weak signals may be
modified to achieve initial goals an objectives.
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Why the plan is failed ?

Generally a poorly prepared on one or more of the
following factors;
a. Goals set by the managers are unreasonable
b. Goals are not measurable
c. The planner has not made a total commitment to the
business
d. The planner has no experience in planned business
e.. The planner has no sense of potential threats or
weakness to the business
f. No customers need were not established for the
proposed product or services.
g. Lack of an adequate situation analysis
h. Lack of a real plan.
i. Unanticipated competitive moves, service deficiencies
and act of God.

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Planning for Pricing

Km /ton
Area pricing
Daily charges
Hourly charges
Chartered pricing
Case by case
Contracted out
Vehicle and driver
Driver only
Vehicle only
Labor only
Labor, driver, vehicle, machinery and area

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Special area planning

Area, location, or route
Local routes
Joint routes
Long distances
Proportional routes
Differential routes
Per-mile routes
Terminal-to-terminal routes
Blanket or group
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Other planning in transport

Passenger movement planning

Goods movement planning
Supply chain management planning
Logistics planning
Special charter planning
Fleets movement
Family movement
Ship planning
Trade planning
Operational planning and etc..

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TRANSPORT PLANNING FLOW CHART

STAGE 1
Preparation

Management
groups

STAGE 2
Process in put
Statutory and
regulation
requirements

STAGE 3
Implementation
Implement plan

Stake holders
Resources
and regulator req
requirement
Identify tpt and
physical/mater
Environment
emergency req
ial/movements
impact
Identify the
Determine scope
Monitoring
stakeholder needs
of transport
comprehensive
Plan the goal achieve
planning
Controlling
budget and plan
Gather the people and
Check up
The success of
information resources
the details
planning and
towards the success of
requirement
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Goals and objectives

a. Goals are general long term such s provision of
adequate access to needed facilities and maintenance of
an attractive environment
b. Objectives are more immediate and expressed more
precisely ,after in numerical term
c. Modeling is often used in connection with planning, it
involves some means of reproducing the relationships
among the most important features of urban area so
can easily understood and predicted .

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Unit

Transportation Planning Implications

Roadway LOS,
Favors investments that benefit peak-period
traffic congestion
vehicle travel and automobile-dependent
delay.
urban areas (where congestion is worst).
Peak-period vehicle- Favors investments that benefit peak-period
mile
vehicle travel.
Lane-mile

Favors investments in areas with maximum

public roads, such as rural areas.

Vehicle-mile

Favors investments in automobile-dependent

areas.

Vehicle-trip

Favors investments in automobile-dependent

urban areas.

Passenger-mile and Equal consideration to automobile, transit,

ton-mile
ridesharing improvements.
Passenger-trip
Per capita
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Equal consideration to all transportation modes,

including walking and cycling.
Equal consideration to all access improvements,
including mobility substitutes and land use
management
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 Purpose

Distance
(miles)

Time
(min)

Drive
Walk

15
0.2

30
4

To restaurant for lunch.

Walk
From restaurant after lunch. Walk
From office to parking.
Walk

0.5
0.5

10
10

0.2
15

4
30

1
0.5

6
10

1
0.5

6
10

2 trips (20%)

30.0 (87%)

60(50%)

6 trips (60%)

2.4 (7%)

48 (40%)

2 trips (20%)

2.0 (6%)

12 (10%)

To work
From parking to office.

To home.
To commercial center.

Mode

Drive
Bike

Travel between shops)

Walk
Home from shopping center. Bike
Walk dog.
Walk
Drive
Walk
Bike
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trips (100%) 34.4 (100%)

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120 (100%)

Summary of planning

Planning is required
- skills, understanding the goals
- objectives .

The master of the planner cannot work alone in planning

something . They need to
-study,
-discuss,
- Assign tasks,
- directing implementing ,
- evaluating .
preparation in planning is required
-a solid and sharp thinker
- as well as strategy towards the planning .

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Example of strategy
The strategy in planning are as follows;
a. The objective comprehensive transport planning is the
optimum movement of people and goods.
b. Particularly for the journey the public transport could
be more efficient that the private car but less attractive
if the infra is not well maintained .
c. Involments in government bodies are essentials.
d. To increase a greater uses of pubic transport system
needs to be improved and restraint applied to the use for
private car of vehicles.
e. Planning is an activity that is carried out at all levels
in the organisation .As a top level in the organisation the
overall objectives are to be worked out.
f. Manager has to plan how this actions can fulfill duties
as designated to him as part of the plan.
g. Planning is an important tools to ensure the goals are
achieved.
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Cont..
h. In the transport company the planning may be
assembled in four groups
i. Policy group ii. Planning group iii. Control group
iv. Action group
i. The lay out of planning has three major important
subjects
i. Goals ii. Objectives iii. Options
j. The planning shall be evaluated be the Implementation
before and after taking place.

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Develop your plan

through checklists

Lists down the important events

Prioritise the events
Time factors
Person/parties involved
Budgets
Places
Method to be used
Evaluate

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Mind mapping

Transport planning

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Project Name:
Project Author:
Checked By:
Date:

Checklists

Transport Planning

No

The main task/events

Yes

No

Pending

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
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Gantt Chart

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Transport planning- Example

Performance Task Must Follow
Time
Task Listed
Task (Days/weeks)
Below
A
10

B
11
A
C
5
B
D
4
B
E
12
A
F
3
C, D
G
7
F
H
11
E
I
3
G, H
Total time 66 days

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This means that

tasks B and E
cannot be done
until task A has
been completed

Pert chart
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Transport planning- Example

Performance Task Must Follow
Time
Task Listed
Task (Days/weeks)
Below
A
10

B
11
A
C
5
B
D
4
B
E
12
A
F
3
C, D
G
7
F
10
H
11
E
A
I
3
G, H
Total time 66 days

5
11

B
12

E
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C
4

G
3

11

H
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Event chain chart

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Assignment 3 Transport Planning

Your friend from China intends to establish one trucking
company in Malaysia . You have been appointed as
Managing Director of for the mentioned company .The
company is to be ready in 6 month. Upon completion of
your plan ,your are required to brief him on the procedure,
preparation, number of vehicles budget and other
requirements . Support your planning using plannings
layout , the checklists and all related charts.

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Next;
Key success planning

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