Factors Affecting Transport Problem In Malaysia

The transport problem of our Malaysian road systems are generally can be categorized in many factors. It all has relation that contributed to the over speed. As urban economy and development is dependent and directly influences by the transport,( Hill, 1965) the growing population in Malaysia has expended the growth of urbanization that created the transport problem. Congestion is the main issue at hand in the urban area such as Kuala Lumpur which is our capital. The introduction of multiple public transports makes the travel in demand grow. At this point, the economy of Malaysia has contributed to the producing cars in the state-owned Proton which is the national cars produced at cheap cost and made easy to purchase by Malaysian, with many promotion and marketing tools that supposed to the sales of motor vehicles on road for Proton.

This makes the young drivers on the road of Malaysia seen growing. This factor of rapid urbanization and motorization seen in Malaysia is due to its expanding economy since 1987 ( Monkolva et al: 2001). The expansion of urban growth among younger drivers or all new drivers on the road is one of the important features on urban population growth. This means many people in Malaysia can purchase cars. As there are multiple factors that affect the road transport problems in Malaysia and the growth of new drivers on the road contributed to congestion, accident, pollution, lack of public infrastructure for parking lots, we aim to focus speed limit problem that contributes accident on