A comparative study of Malaysian expressway traffic management with selected countries

Traffic Management Plan (TMP) in road construction is implemented along the work zone area in order to isolate construction workers and machinery and also road users passing through the work zone area. The aim of this study is to overview the current practices of Expressway Traffic Management based...

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Main Author:	Mahmood @ Mohd. Zawawi, Aidil
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2019
Subjects:	TA Engineering (General) Civil engineering (General)
Online Access:	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/80869/1/AidilMahmoodMSKA2019.pdf
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spelling	my-utm-ep.808692019-07-24T00:08:20Z A comparative study of Malaysian expressway traffic management with selected countries 2019-01 Mahmood @ Mohd. Zawawi, Aidil TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) Traffic Management Plan (TMP) in road construction is implemented along the work zone area in order to isolate construction workers and machinery and also road users passing through the work zone area. The aim of this study is to overview the current practices of Expressway Traffic Management based on the guideline system in Malaysia in comparison with the selected countries. This study focuses on TMP guidelines implementation at Malaysia PLUS highway and comparison of guidelines with two other countries which are Australia and United States. The methodology of this study will be divided into two stages which are primary data and secondary data. Secondary data will be collected by literature review by focusing on writing-related materials and primary data will be collected through documents search within company undertaking traffic management projects. Data and related information guidelines standard such as catalog and literature review details can be obtained online. The collected data was analyzed using narrative and content analysis method. Based on the objectives of the study, the current practices of Malaysian Highway Traffic Management Plan has used Malaysian Traffic Management Plan Guidelines 2008 which indicate plenty room of improvement to be at par with the developed nation based on the comparison of the contents from the guidelines of other two countries. Missing important term in the TMP objective, establish work process for emergency and unplanned works, increase the numbers of warning signages at work site and put first warning signage as far as possible from work site are among important improvement on the Malaysian Traffic Management Plan guidelines document that can be adopted. 2019-01 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/80869/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/80869/1/AidilMahmoodMSKA2019.pdf application/pdf en public http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:125189 masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Engineering - School of Civil Engineering Faculty of Engineering - School of Civil Engineering
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description	Traffic Management Plan (TMP) in road construction is implemented along the work zone area in order to isolate construction workers and machinery and also road users passing through the work zone area. The aim of this study is to overview the current practices of Expressway Traffic Management based on the guideline system in Malaysia in comparison with the selected countries. This study focuses on TMP guidelines implementation at Malaysia PLUS highway and comparison of guidelines with two other countries which are Australia and United States. The methodology of this study will be divided into two stages which are primary data and secondary data. Secondary data will be collected by literature review by focusing on writing-related materials and primary data will be collected through documents search within company undertaking traffic management projects. Data and related information guidelines standard such as catalog and literature review details can be obtained online. The collected data was analyzed using narrative and content analysis method. Based on the objectives of the study, the current practices of Malaysian Highway Traffic Management Plan has used Malaysian Traffic Management Plan Guidelines 2008 which indicate plenty room of improvement to be at par with the developed nation based on the comparison of the contents from the guidelines of other two countries. Missing important term in the TMP objective, establish work process for emergency and unplanned works, increase the numbers of warning signages at work site and put first warning signage as far as possible from work site are among important improvement on the Malaysian Traffic Management Plan guidelines document that can be adopted.
format	Thesis
qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Mahmood @ Mohd. Zawawi, Aidil
author_facet	Mahmood @ Mohd. Zawawi, Aidil
author_sort	Mahmood @ Mohd. Zawawi, Aidil
title	A comparative study of Malaysian expressway traffic management with selected countries
title_short	A comparative study of Malaysian expressway traffic management with selected countries
title_full	A comparative study of Malaysian expressway traffic management with selected countries
title_fullStr	A comparative study of Malaysian expressway traffic management with selected countries
title_full_unstemmed	A comparative study of Malaysian expressway traffic management with selected countries
title_sort	comparative study of malaysian expressway traffic management with selected countries
granting_institution	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Engineering - School of Civil Engineering
granting_department	Faculty of Engineering - School of Civil Engineering
publishDate	2019
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A comparative study of Malaysian expressway traffic management with selected countries

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