Toyohashi  University  of  Technology,  Institute  for  Global  Network  Innovation  in  Technology  Education        News  from  Penang  （Vol.3  2015/3/2）  	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 44nReports	 Present and Future Urban Public Transport System in KLJun Sakamoto, National Institute of Technology, Gifu CollegeIn this paper, I am going to introduce about present and future urban public transportsystem in Kuala Lumpur.
Currently, the central part of the city has seven rail lines; therefore, people can movesmoothly without a taxi. Although these railways have a lot of functions to improve mobility, someof them are funny. I am going to introduce three funny stories. One is an electronic board. Somerailways had an electronic board to provide an information about the next train at platform. Onfirst glance, I thought the system was a very nice for passengers; however, it did not work: forexample, some boards in KL Monorail line always provided the information “Next train is coming inthree minutes.” Also, the electronic board in KTM commuter provided the information about nexttrain and arriving time. I believed that information and got on the train; however, the train wasgoing to different route; in fact, the board did not provide the information about the train. OMG!
Another is a female only train car. KTM commuter had a female only train car. However, I could notunderstand what time male cannot use the train car because there was no additional informationabout it. In fact, I could use the train car from 10am to 2pm on Saturday. The other is a train ICcard and a ticket gate. Although some train companies served the service of train IC card, it was notsmart. For example, some ticket gates were out of work, and passengers could go through withoutshowing their ticket.
However, future urban public transport system in this city’s is absolutely positive.
According to the Master plan of urban public transport system, by 2020, one new rail line, 52km,are going to be established; two rail lines are going to be extended 17km each; new BRT (Bus RapidTransit) line, 4okm, is going to be established. The project will influence not only the accessibility inthe metropolitan area, but also from rural area. In this city, the percentage of using publictransport decreased about 35 % in recent 40 years (From 50%, 1970 to 15 %, 2010) due to recentrapid motorization. The result implies the development of inefficient urban transportation. Ingeneral, it is difficult to change citizens’ travel mode because they have already the syndrome ofusing private cars. The master plan has the project of developing the guideline of TDM (TravelDemand Management); therefore, I would like to expect the citizens’ thinking of using private car inthe future.

5Pic 1 Unbelievable electronic board

Pic 2 Female only train carPic 3 Smart ticket gatePic 4 New railway construction6Education System in M alaysiaSeiji Fujiwara, National Institute of Technology, Akashi CollegeEducation system of Malaysia is very complex. In this issue, I will introduce the educationsystem of Malaysia which I understood through the visiting of USM (Universiti Sains Malaysia),PSP (Polytechnic Seberang Perai) and DISTED College.
Malaysian education system is consist of primary education (6 years) and secondary education(lower 3 years, upper 2 years), and then some students go on to university after universitypreparatory education (1 ~ 1.5 years), or some students go on to polytechnic or teacher trainingcollege directly after secondary education. Although the curriculum of whole education system isalmost same until the secondary education of lower year, a national general examination is carriedout at the time of the completion of each curriculum, and a school, where they go on to, is decidedbased on the result of the examination. The secondary education of upper year is divided into theordinary education school, technical education school and job training school. Students of theordinary education school go on to university after university preparatory education. The educationlength of university preparatory education varies by academic results. Education of the primaryeducation is conducted in Malay, Chinese and Tamil since Malaysia is a multiracial nation, and anative language seems to be respected. All education of secondary education in public school,however, is conducted only in Malay. This education system makes Chinese and Indian Malaysiansdifficult to go on to university due to a language barrier. Furthermore, Bumiputera Policy, whichaimed at improving the economic standing of the Bumiputera (the Malay race and other indigenouspeoples), also make difficult to enter university of Malaysia for Chinese and Indian Malaysians.
There are some private schools, where the education is conducted in Chinese or English, other thanpublic school. Children of a wealthy family attend these schools. Such schools are not recognized asan educational institution but a company. DISTED College is such a private school corresponding touniversity preparatory education. All educations are conducted in English, and most students go onto an American and European universities.
I would like to write about polytechnic that seems to be related to National Institute ofTechnology (NIT). The students who have graduated secondary education school enter topolytechnic. Polytechnic has 21 campuses. Teachers are employed as a teacher of polytechnics, andthey have periodical transfer Almost all of them do not .have PhD degree. I heard that most of theirlecture is design education and workshop practice. Few lecture related to theory seems to beconducted. My impression of students is slightly childish, but I felt them to be innocent. We had anopportunity of school tour, and we saw the lectures of the integral calculus and the linear algebras.
The level of the lectures was almost same as the class of Japanese university. Although I felt somedifference between an impression of the students and the contents of lecture, they seem to be taughtbasic theory of engineering. It seems that PSP has no experience of the international relations, andPSP’s teacher said eagerly whether they could have some kind of international exchange programwith NIT. We need to consider that from now on.

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