The benefits of National Intelligent Transportation Management Centre (NITMC) establishment in Malaysia

Malaysia has been embracing Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) technology and has started the effort by establishing a few traffic management centres (TMC) which are operated by different government agencies for transportation data collection. For examples, Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) has been operating Integrated Transport Information System (ITIS) where traffic data is collected in Kuala Lumpur and Klang Valley area., In addition, Malaysian Highway Authority (MHA) has TMCs at all tolled highways to collect and manage traffic data and Land Public Transport Land Public Transport Agency (APAD) is in charge for public transport management including bus and light rail train. Due to the operation and maintenance of these centres are maintained by multiple agencies separately, transportation data from them are not coordinated and integrated. Therefore, the in-silo working culture causes difficulty in data collection and analysis for historical data record, real-time information and future prediction. In conclusion, National Intelligent Transport Management Centre (NITMC) is important as the centre that will coordinate, integrate, collect, analyse and disseminate these data from multiple agencies from government and private agencies. The data analysed in NITMC is expected to benefit all relevant stakeholders including the public by providing up-to-date and reliable data to them.