Planning of National Transport Infrastructure

In the Islamic Countries

Figure 17: Development Planning Machinery of Malaysia

Source: Economic Planning Unit, Prime Minister’s Department of Malaysia

Recently the coordination of transport master plans of all 13 states in Malaysia has been

commissioned to the Land Public Transport Commission (SPAD) to ensure comprehensive and

holistic land transport development across Malaysia. The purpose was to reduce redundancy

and wastage of resources. SPAD is one of the federal agencies and has been given wide powers

in three key areas: planning, regulatory, and enforcement. At the time of writing this report, the

SPAD is still developing a national land transport master plan (which is initially planned to be

published in the first quarter of 2018).

A state transport master plan (in Figure 16 is shown as a sectoral plan at the state level) is a list

of transport infrastructure projects with the aim of improving the state’s transport system.

Penang Transport Master Plan 2013-2030 for instance, proposes the following projects:

Cabinet Ministers

PARLIAMENT

National Planning Council

Economic Planning Unit

Inter-Agency Planning Group

Private Sector

Dialogue

National Economic

Action Council (NEAC),

National Economic

Consultative Council

(NECC)

State Government

Federal Ministries &

Agencies

Private Sector

Implementation &

Coordination Unit

National

Development Council

National Development

Planning Committe

Policy

General

framework

Proposal

Circulars

Proposal

Circulars

Draft

Secretariat