INNOVATION OF THE RAIL TRANSPORTATION

Rail transportation on the fast track

          Innovation is, and will continue to be, an integral part of the way railways conduct their business. Technological and process innovations help increase system safety, efficiency and reliability. This in turn lowers costs to customers and increases productivity. Railroads have always generated data. And today, with RFID and other technologies, they generate more data than ever before. IBM can use that data to help make railroads more efficient, safer, faster, cleaner, and profitable.

             

 The public and private sectors recognize the need for a better transportation infrastructure. And increasingly, they see the potential of smarter railroads to address that need. But how do we get there? Through the vagaries of history, geography, economics and politics, some continents (such as Europe) are much farther along in optimizing their transportation infrastructure for train passengers, even as others (especially North America) outpace them in the use of rail for freight transportation. Each could learn something from the other. We've reached an historic point—whereby technological advancements now meet the societal, environmental and financial demands for a more efficient and intelligent transportation system.                     

An instrumented, interconnected and intelligent transportation infrastructure—and smarter railroads, in particular—could make the global economy stronger, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, make highways safer and reduce road congestion. A smarter planet, in other words, needs smarter railroads.

Fact about the rail transportation:

v  Each year, rail lines carry 21 billion passengers and 10 billion tons of freight worldwide.

v  Rail carriers 6.25% of all intercity passenger traffic in Europe compared to 0.3% in the United State.

v  Only 18% intercity freight travel by rail in Europe compared to 47% in the US.

 

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Innovation in rail transport industry

Innovation in rail transport industry

High-speed rail

      In tandem technological advances as well as conscious society needs speed and efficiency in all aspects, various initiatives carried to meet these needs. For example, when developing countries wake as the United States (U.S.) strive to meet the needs of the people in terms of the efficiency of public transportation, high-speed Acela train Express Amtrak was the choice. With a maximum speed of 150 miles hour, Acela is the fastest machines in operation in the U.S. at the moment.

      But according to Railway Technology, the increasing age of machinery, stop frequency and curly and obsolescence track speed limit the average one-way from New York to Washington DC to 80 miles per hour.

     In addition, there are also several types of trains that operate outside developing countries is comparable with steadiness. Here is one of five high-speed trains in throughout the country.

1. CRH380A operating in China have speeds of up to 300 miles per hour is the fastest machine once put it as a leading to the world.

2. Tran rapid TR-09 from the German maglev technology is the same as technically monorail. With a maximum speed of up to 279 miles per hour put it as the second fastest train in the world.

3. Country Japan is famous for its speed rail proceedings of the Shinkansen high maximum speed is up to 275 miles per hour is also known as the platypus as the unique Duckbilled before.

4. Reseau ratchets owned French TGV has a speed of up to 236 miles per hour. But regular supervision only limited to 199 miles one hour.

5. Pride of the North Korean KTX only able to accommodate a total of 2 360 passengers. With a maximum speed reached 219 miles per hour, passengers can reach their destinations more quickly than expected.

Intercity KTM

Intercity rail service is a service introduced by KTM since more than a decade ago. As introducing additional services to the people by providing choices in terms of destinations, travel covers Peninsular Malaysia. Change after change has been implemented to provide a comfortable and safe in the journey to the destination of your choice in the shortest time possible.

At this time, service improvements are underway to build a double track that will provide a faster way of any public service operator in Malaysia.

Intercity travel by train allows you to enjoy the greenery and stunning vistas along the way. To secure services besides rest.

In 2012, Intercity and ETS services have been consolidated under a fully controlled administrative KTM Intercity SBU. The merger led to the introduction of several new products to its customers with the existence of the ETS services every 2 hours and standardization of existing concessions. Marketing Unit also makes the tour program starting from downtown up to Darwin, KL Central to Johor Bahru and KL Central in the promotion to introduce KTM Dense i-Card to get discounts for travel customers with service between cities.

                                
 Intercity rail service by KTM has made people easy to move from one place to another.

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Malaysia can be logistics gateway for ASEAN

As you know of all the Asean countries, Malaysia has the most number of Asean neighbours. This is because Malaysia share land and borders with Brunei, Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand, and Malaysia also share a sea border with the Philippines, which can be crossed very easily.

 

Even today, Malaysia is already playing the gateway role as it is the gateway for southern Thailand as Malaysia's Land Public Transport Commission Chairman Tan Sri Syed Hamid Albar said in his speech at the launch of the Asean-Business Advisory Council Seminar 2013 in Kuala Lumpur on 18 April 2013.

 

Syed Hamid said Padang Besar and Bukit Kayu Hitam are the top two export points for the four southern Thailand provinces of Songkla, Chumporn, Nakhon Ratchasmia and Surat Thani, accounting for 31 per cent and 29 per cent respectively.

 

Syed Hamid who was Malaysian Foreign Minister for 10 years also said that the government also plans to develop a global logistics hub with four integrated logistics centres, logistics parks, and a logistics park over 1,093 hectre in Iskandar Malaysia, located along one of the world's busiest sea-lanes, the Straits of Malacca. The transport and storage sector contributes RM30 billion to the country's economy, and it is 3.2 per cent of the country's gross domestic product (GDP).

In the speech he also mentioned that the Asean Economic Community (AEC) will remove substantially all trade restrictions for logistics services by 2013 and allow other Asean countries to take up to 70 per cent equity participation for logistics services and adding AEC also emphasises efforts to enhance transport facilitation and logistics services, promote multimodal transport linkages and connectivity. Malaysia's trade with Asean in 2012 amounted to US$115.9 billion or 27.3 per cent of Malaysia's external trade.

 

The conclusion here is as the government aim for a GDP growth of eight per cent per annum, government must make sure that the transport and logistics sectors also grow accordingly.

    

Malaysia's Land Public Transport Commission Chairman Tan Sri Syed Hamid Albar.

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What's is interesting in logistics?

Some video that we would like to share for our new blog :)

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