Road And Highways (Road Transportation)

This issues related with the service of transportation have on the road. The certain issues in town and environment, such as air pollution and noise that related with motorization that associated growth, will discuss in depth at the other places. It covers how to assess road transportation performance and define the strategies for regulations change to promote the efficiency and to meet environmental. Especially for truck and bus services.

KEY ISSUES

The following list will focuses on the main issues that you need to know about road transportation to make sure that the performance is well and the government regulatory policy is suitable and effective. The lists will covers the ways to make sure and evaluate the related regulations and methods to define the strategy to handle the important issues that effecting the development of transportation and the public transport services.

 a) Assess Regulatory Policy

• Many indicators of national road transport performance can be defined the cost, efficiency and the level of services of road transportation. But, with the enough data, there are rarely used in the analysis. The effectiveness of regulatory policy can be evaluate in terms of how far it can encourage the competition and efficiency to used the roads while meeting safety and environmental concerns. During evaluate the policy, account should be taken the following considerations :

          :: Many regulatory of road transportation will have and historical.

          :: Studies of the characteristics of economic road transportation that shows a few of intervention by                 government to make sure the efficient distribution of resources.

          :: The due of regulatory should take in cost and benefits.

          :: The transport regulations is more efficient when focus on output from input.

• In many cases, the regulations fail to maintain the minimum safety standard and they change it not due embargo on the transport service. The market may be arise from the intervention of the other government, such as state ownership of transport enterprise. For more details about how to see the regulations problems, see Assessing Regulations Of Road Transport.

b) Establishing A Strategy For Improving Regulations

• An effecting strategy by improving regulations could involve :
• Review road transportation policy
• Review the legal framework 
• The strengthen of  institutional measures in regulatory agencies
• An accurately needs is depends on the situations. The scope of changes can be considerable for countries without any history of a market economy. The regulations system are not change at many years. The constraints usually being the administrative capacity of government for these standard s in practice.

c) Developing The Role Played By Trucking

• Raising professional standards in trucking is important if read transportation is to play full role and offer high quality service.
• For road transportation, it play full role in international transport.
• An attention must give to minimize delay due to customs and other procedures.

d) Ensuring Competitive Bus Transport

• It is not usual for establish operators for the certain services. Without intervention government, is not assured on every route. 
• In the case of bus service, the certain issues that happen are in planning and regulating services.  And it will discuss in Urban Transport Web Site.
• For non-urban service, there rarely appears to be a case for main intervention by government in planning and controlling services.
• Monitoring for bus services competition can be often carried out without more collected additional information.

Tiong Nam Is Frost And Sullivan's 2013 In Domestic Road Transportation Service Provider Of The Year

Tiong Nam Logistics Holdings was awarded Frost And Sullivan's 2013. This company have one of their highest revenues in the road transportation service segments that shows the dominance in the industry. The Malaysia Excellence Awards is to recognize companies and individuals that who have pushed the boundaries of excellence. The Domestic Road Transportation Service Provider of the Year award receipt was selected based on measurement areas such as revenue growth and future expansion strategy. Tiong Nam also offer one of the widest arrays of service in the road transportation operations. Being one of the largest trucking company in Malaysia, Tiong Nam has a strong with a fleet size of more than 1300, starts from vans, trucks and prime movers. Tiong Nam can ensure that their fleet is well maintained for their efficient transportation.

Tiong Nam was invest greater of IT Infrastructure as part of their strategy to improve current services. Other than allowing customer to track their shipments, the company also has a developed their own application that allows customers to schedule as well as manage their shipment online. Tiong Nam was introduce the Automated Storage And Retrieval System (ASRS) in Shah Alam to increase the efficiency . Other than that, it also can cut time for high volume loading and unloading. This company is looking to expand their business at Laos and Vietnam to keep up with the growing economy at there.

Issue II

Introductory Remarks On Merger Ryanair/ Aer Lingus

In 2007 the Commission prohibited for the first time such and attempt. Our decision was later upheld by the EU General Court, who rejected Ryanair's appeal.

In 2009, Ryanair notified the acquisition to the Commission but then decided to withdraw it. So, this is the second time that the Commission had the opportunity to assess such as transaction in depth.

On the other routes the only competitive constraint would have been exercised by airlines with a different business model, such as charter airlines or large airlines that focus on connecting flights and this constraint would have been too weak.

The number of air transport routes where Aer Lingus and Ryanair compete directly against each other also increased from 35 to 46.

The most likely outcome of this transaction would have been quite simple: When flying to and from Ireland, passengers wouldn't have been able to choose between as many as they can today, and they would have ended up paying higher fares.

SUMMARY: On our opinion, Aer Lingus, the Irish flag carrier, is low cost airline Ryanair. This transaction would have combined the two airlines operating fron Ireland. Currently these two airlines are competing head to head. We studied them with great care and we carried out gathering views from competitors, customers and airport operators. The market position of the two companies on flight to and from Ireland are stronger today than day were in 2007.

Airlines that passengers need  on the many routes on which both airlines compete. For the citizens who will travel on this flights inn the coming years, it has a positive impact. Customer also can continue and join from the benefits of competition between Ryanair and AerLingus. Other than that, customer can get better choice of services and also lower fares.

Issue I

14/02/2013

American Airlines And US Airways Announce World`s Largest Air Carrier Merger

American Airlines and US Airways, as they announced an $ 11 billion merger to create the world`s largest air carrier after directors approved the deal.

Before the announcement the boards met separately and approved the merger that has been in the works, when creditors  forced American to choose between a merger and bankruptey, according to sources close to negotiations.

14/08/2013

US Justice Dept Lawsuit Blocks World`s Biggest Air Carrier

The deal with this merger, would cost consumers hundreds of millions of dollars a year in higher fares, US authorities warm.

The lawsuit, filed by the Justice Department and joined by attorney generals of six states and the District of Columbia, said they were alarmed that the potential deal would create a monopoly in us commercial aviation, where 4 major carriers would control more than 80% of the market.

SUMMARY : As the conclusion, we thinks they must merger because many advantages they can have it than a disadvantages.

Advantages when they merger:

-Be a largest air carrier in the world.

-Good relationship between two company.

-Can share idea for always in top place for air carrier.

-Share risk and reward.

-Improve their services.

Reasons for growth in air cargo:

-Deregulation and liberalization of air cargo industry.

-Global inter depence helped by world trade agreement.

-International production and sales of goods.

-New inventory management concept such as JIT.

-The vast development of high value and limited consumable commodities.

Future Rail 2030

National Rail Industry joint between National Foresight Institute (NFI) which is under Malaysian Industry-Government Group for High Technology (MIGHT) and Land Public Transport Commission (SPAD) was plan for future to develop rail industry in Malaysia until year 2030. These initiative is the right time for Malaysia because have a few increasing concern in the world such as changes of climate, population growth, crowding, lack of oil and increasing the price of energy. The argument about the trend was created one strong feeling the rail is going to be an important mode of transport.

Shaping The Future Of Malaysian Rail Industry

The rail industry in Malaysia currently is very small in terms of track networks. Although the operations started 1885, there are a few of related organisations. Lack of policy, vision and direction of the development has been one of the main factors contribute to current situations industry. Government of Malaysia was invested more RM 50 billion for the rail related equipment since 1990 and the amount of the invested will be expand until year 2020 through committed investments under Greater Kuala Lumpur initiative of economic Transformation Programme (ETD). Therefore, the local rail support industry need to take an advantage from the future investments to strengthen the required capabilities for future. " A journey of a thousand mile begins with a single step. " (Lao Tzu)

However, there are some needed to attract and combine all hopes of split and will of all stakeholders to recover the rail industry in Malaysia.