Contents - SPAD

1. Background
1.1) Introduction
SPAD (Suruhanjaya Pengangkutan Awam Darat) has developed the National Land Public Transport Framework
(National LPT Framework) to set out the vision and direction for Land Public Transport (LPT) in Malaysia. The
purpose is to develop a long term programme to address the current deterioration in LPT with plans to execute high
impact and effective delivery initiatives for a 20-year sustainable National LPT service. The goal of LPT is to drive
forward the ambition of Vision 2020 and 1Malaysia. These national initiatives seek to transform Malaysia into a fully
developed and industrialised nation by sustaining growth of 7% per annum. 1Malaysia is the foundation of the
national vision where its goal is to preserve and enhance unity in diversity. As part of this, SPAD aspires to
transform public transport to be the peoples mode of choice, thus enabling unity and a national drive for
sustainable economic growth.
Within the Government Transformation Programme (GTP) (Source: Pemandu, 2010), the National Key Result Area
(NKRA) for Urban Public Transport set a number of goals up to 2012:
Raise modal share
Improve reliability and journey times
Enhance comfort and convenience
Improve accessibility and connectivity
SPAD owns part of the Urban Public Transport NKRA and was set up to consolidate selected LPT related portfolios
from other agencies and develop the National LPT Framework. SPAD‟s Mission for LPT in Malaysia can be
summarised as:
„To achieve a safe, reliable, efficient, responsive, accessible, planned, integrated, affordable
and sustainable land public transport system to enhance socio-economic development and
quality of life.‟
The National LPT Framework defines the National LPT Policy, which provides guidance towards developing the
National Land Public Transport Master Plan (LPTMP). Included in the National LPT Framework is also a Planning
Toolkit which provides the guidance on the methodology for setting objectives, plan development, identification of
policy measures and assessments of solutions. The Planning Toolkit facilitates the development of Regional LPTMPs
and enables interfacing with State-specific plans and land use policies.
The first Regional LPTMP developed by SPAD is for the Greater KL/ Klang Valley (GKL/KV) region. This document
provides one of the Subsidiary Plans relating to bus transformation, which forms part of the GKL/KV LPTMP. The
other Subsidiary Plans include:
Urban Rail Development Plan (URDP)
Taxi Transformation Plan (TTP)
Interchange and Integration Plan (IIP)
Land Use Plan (LUP)
Travel Demand Management Plan (TDMP)
Together these provide an integrated LPT plan for the GKL/KV region.
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