Electric Bus Adoption For Sustainable Public Transport Planning: A Cases Study At Panorama Melaka Sdn Bhd And Unit Perancang Ekonomi Negeri (UPEN)

A Rahman, Husnul Laili (2016) Electric Bus Adoption For Sustainable Public Transport Planning: A Cases Study At Panorama Melaka Sdn Bhd And Unit Perancang Ekonomi Negeri (UPEN). Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Nowadays, application of green and clean fleet technology on the road meets the need of sustainable public transport planning because the critical level of global greenhouse gases and to build up society to become environmental sensitive towards public transportation. Malacca Government State through it roles supporting the National Policy embarked a roadmap of clean air quality emphasized on transportation for now and future generations. Electric bus is a battery powered vehicles which emit no pollution, quiet and energy efficiency to be adopt as a main public transportation in urban area. Therefore, it is precise on two key concepts as a mechanism of successful implemented this project which focused on factors and strategies in adopting electric bus. Since that, the factors need to be considered in adopting electric bus is environmental, social, technology, political, depletion petroleum resources, battery, charging network, maintenance and cost factor. However, the organizations also arranged the strategies to be involved in adopting electric bus emphasized on government stimulus, charging infrastructure, research and development, venture capital investing and education to society. In this case study, Panorama Melaka Sdn Bhd and Unit Perancangan Ekonomi Negeri (UPEN) were selected as responsible organization to investigate the factor and strategies involved in adopting electric bus. The respondent of this case study will be aim for 30 respondents from middle management and executive through qualitative in-depth interview to ensure the reliability and validity of data collection in this research. As conclusion, the innovative suggestion is recommended for future research significantly as development and dynamic improvement for the next academic research.

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