Personal air vehicle (PAVE) application in Malaysia

Transportation has become a huge necessity in our life today, which is instrumental to create greater socioeconomic opportunities. As the world progresses, transportation systems will undergo paradigm shifts to suit with changing requirements. Personal transportation is often preferred to the public transport and to date, most of them have been made on the ground through roads. However, with the increasing traffic volume, the average time spent travelling on roads has significantly increased for the same amount of distance travelled. It has already been proposed that utilization of the possible third dimension of transportation system, which is the air transport, can facilitate in supporting the personal transportation and subsequently alleviate this problem. This notion gives birth to the design concepts of the personal air vehicle (PAVE) that is envisioned to operate synergistically with ground and air infrastructures. This paper aims to preliminarily study and analyze the potential benefits of having PAVE option in Malaysia for domestic travel and how its performance will fare in comparison to the existing ground transportation options. The results of travel time and cost comparisons highlight the potential of PAVE application for the domestic transportation in Malaysia, particularly for personal travel need

Travel time and cost analysis of PAVE application in Malaysia

Transportation has already become a huge necessity in people's life today. As the world progresses, transportation systems will have to undergo paradigm shifts to adapt with the changing requirements. Personal transportation is typically preferred to the public transportation and to date, most domestic travels have been made on the ground through roads. However, with the increasing traffic volume, the average time spent travelling on roads has significantly increased for the same amount of distance travelled. It has been proposed that utilization of the possible third dimension of transportation system, which is the air transportation, can aid personal transportation and alleviate this problem. This notion gives birth to the design concepts of the personal air vehicle (PAVE) that is envisioned to operate synergistically with the existing ground and air infrastructures. This paper aims to preliminarily study and analyze the potential benefits of having PAVE option in Malaysia for domestic travel and how its performance fares in comparison to existing transportation options. The results of travel time and cost comparisons highlight the potential of PAVE application for the domestic transportation in Malaysia, particularly for personal travel need

Point-to-point transportation analysis for domestic travel in Malaysia

Point-to-point travel refers to the trip taken from the initial departure point to the final destination point, which can be further categorized as either direct or non-direct. Direct point-to-point travel indicates that the trip is made with a single transportation mode from beginning until the person reaches the final destination. On the other hand, the non-direct type of point-to-point travel involves several modes of transportation throughout the journey. Comparison analysis is made between the avail-able modes of domestic transportation such as buses, trains, commercial flights and cars to determine the preference and the market potential for direct point-to-point travel means. Several evaluation criteria including time on transport, time of waiting, cost of transport, cost of other expenses, travel comfort, flexibility of departure point and privacy are used in this study. Based on the result from case studies of domestic travel in Malaysia, it shows that direct point-to-point means of transportation represented by cars generally have higher benefits in comparison to other means of transportation, especially in terms of time and travel costs. This signifies a big potential in introducing a better means of direct point-to-point transportation than current cars like the dual-mode Personal Air Vehicle (PAVE) for domestic travel in Malaysi

A Framework For Monitoring And Modelling Of Btex In Various Development Statuses In Penang, Malaysia.

The development and urbanization process in Malaysia are believed to contribute to the deterioration of air quality. The rapid growth of the Malaysian economy lead to the increase of motor vehicles ownership, in 2006, there 6.91 million registered cars running on the roads in Malaysia. Benzene, Toluene, Ethylbenzene and Xylene (BTEX) form an important group of aromatic Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), emitted mainly from cars, where BTEX is a known carcinogenic

Study on the Potential of Airships as Urban Mass Public Transport in Malaysia / Negin O. Aminian and Fairuz I. Romli

Transportation capability is an essential need in progressing and improving the quality of lifestyle for a society to a better level. In many urban cities, traffic congestion problems have always been a big issue and despite several efforts made to alleviate the situation, the problem still remains. Taking cue from the proposal of a personal flying car to overcome traffic congestion, a concept of "flying bus" using airships is proposed in this study as a new public transport option within urban areas. To highlight the potential of this idea, particularly for Kuala Lumpur city areas in Malaysia, a comparison analysis between the available public transportation options is done along with the new proposed concept using Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) method. Two case studies have been formulated for the comparison analysis, which is assessed in five different evaluation scenarios to capture the robustness of the results. All in all, it is found that the proposed "flying bus" concept does have some advantages over other public transport options and its implementation can be beneficial to improve the public transportation service for the society within the Kuala Lumpur city areas

Assessment of Wireless Technologies for deployment in Intelligent Transportation System based on Internet of Things

Use of Internet of Things (IoT) with modern wireless network is a trend of the emerging technologies for different systems which can be deployed in various kinds of environment to monitor, communicate with or control the associated elements in the system. The activities e.g., monitoring and communication by IoT can play an important role to design an Intelligent Transportation System (ITS). In this paper, we assess the suitability of IoT enabled wireless technology to be used for ITS. We performed some comparative study to find the best wireless technology that provides reliability, low cost, less power consumption and less data latency for next generation ITS.This technology will reduce energy consumption of the deployed IoT devices as well as ensure safety, efficiency and convenient for transportation systems

IEEE Access special section editorial: Mission critical public-safety communications: architectures, enabling technologies, and future applications

Disaster management organizations such as fire brigades, rescue teams, and emergency medical service providers have a high priority demand to communicate with each other and with the victims by using mission-critical voice and data communications [item 1) in the Appendix]. In recent years, public safety agencies and organizations have started planning to evolve their existing land mobile radio system (LMRS) with long-term evolution (LTE)-based public safety solutions which provides broadband, ubiquitous, and mission-critical voice and data services. LTE provides high bandwidth and low latency services to the customers using internet protocol-based LTE network. Since mission critical communication services have different demands and priorities for dynamically varying situations for disaster-hit areas, the architecture and the communication technologies of the existing LTE networks need to be upgraded with a system that has the capability to respond efficiently and in a timely manner during critical situations

The Role of Intelligent Transportation Systems and Artificial Intelligence in Energy Efficiency and Emission Reduction

Despite the technological advancements in the transportation sector, the industry continues to grapple with increasing energy consumption and vehicular emissions, which intensify environmental degradation and climate change. The inefficient management of traffic flow, the underutilization of transport network interconnectivity, and the limited implementation of artificial intelligence (AI)-driven predictive models pose significant challenges to achieving energy efficiency and emission reduction. Thus, there is a timely and critical need for an integrated, sophisticated approach that leverages intelligent transportation systems (ITSs) and AI for energy conservation and emission reduction. In this paper, we explore the role of ITSs and AI in future enhanced energy and emission reduction (EER). More specifically, we discuss the impact of sensors at different levels of ITS on improving EER. We also investigate the potential networking connections in ITSs and provide an illustration of how they improve EER. Finally, we discuss potential AI services for improved EER in the future. The findings discussed in this paper will contribute to the ongoing discussion about the vital role of ITSs and AI applications in addressing the challenges associated with achieving energy savings and emission reductions in the transportation sector. Additionally, it will provide insights for policymakers and industry professionals to enable them to develop policies and implementation plans for the integration of ITSs and AI technologies in the transportation sector.Comment: 25 pages, 4 figure

Enabling Electric Aircraft_Applications and Approaches

Climate concerns have instigated serious research for weight-critical batteries to enable what are termed EVs, electric vehicles, initially for ground transportation. This research has advanced to the point where, at the system level, parity with combustion engines, via vehicle weight and drag reductions to reduce battery requirements, along with continued battery research, can conceivably be achieved in less than 10 years.. Concomitantly, renewable electric generation, which would enable essentially emission-less transportation, has via cost reductions, efficiency improvements and storage research advanced to the point of producing 25% of current electrical generation and 62% of new generation capability with continued rapid cost reductions and consequent rapid further adoption projected. The present report examines the resultant electric aircraft possibilities and opportunities including technologies to reduce requisite battery size and weight via airframe performance improvements, the benefits of electric propulsion and the enablement of a massive new aeronautics market for affordable, safe personal air vehicles that operate off of local streets

Compressed Natural Gas (CNG): Potential Applications for Advanced Transportation Tanks and Vehicle Systems

The adequate supply of transport fuel has been a continuous concern ever since the automobile and individual modes of travel began the so far impetuous penetration into the transport sector. Over the years it should have become obvious that the running-out of oil phenomena is largely the result of a misperception regarding the dynamic role of technical change on the economics of hydrocarbon exploration and production, in short, on liquid fuel supply. Thus, oil availability appears not to threaten our mobility even in the medium-to-long-term future. The question of using natural gas as a transport fuel, therefore, is not a response to diminishing oil resources but the result of environmental considerations. This is particularly the case for diesel trucks and busses operating in densely populated metropolitan areas. In the past the use of compressed natural gas (CNG) as a clean and efficient vehicle fuel hinged on the heavy weight storage cylinders impacting adversely the available pay-load. Advanced light-weight reinforced aluminum storage cylinders have partially removed this obstacle. This paper reviews the state-of-the-art of CNG technology and offers indications of early application niches for CNG based vehicle systems