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Train Development in Peninsular Malaysia copes with One Belt, One Road
(OBOR) project
Mahendrran Selvaduray
Dr. Loke Keng Bin
Bachelor of Management (Maritime)
School of Maritime Business and Management
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s globalization initiative called One Belt, One Road (OBOR)
project. It aims to develop new infrastructure especially in railways. Malaysia has agree
with High-Speed-Rail (HSR) and East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) train project. These
circumstances will most likely to improve the train industry because with the
development its will stimulate our nation industrial revolution. The first objective is to
identify the important macro environmental factors that affecting the train
development with OBOR project by using PESTELS analysis. Second objective is to
prioritize the most dominant macro environmental factors which influences the train
development with OBOR project by using Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP). These
research is using PESTELS analysis to determine the main criteria and the sub-criteria.
Surveying a closed-ended questionnaire is collected from experts in Malaysian Land
Public Transport Commission (SPAD). After that, the subjective evaluation are
converted into numerical value and processed to rank each alternative on a numerical
scale by using AHP analysis. Based on results, it has shown that Environmental factor
are the most significant main criteria in PESTELS followed by Legal, Technology, Safety
and Security, Economic, Social and Political factors. It can be conclude that mostly the
respondents give highly priority to the main factors of Environment.
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