The future of end-of-life vehicles (elv) in Malaysia – A feasibility study among car users in Klang valley

Zulhaidi Mohd Jawi,Aqbal Hafeez Ariffin,Akmalia Shabadin,Mohd Rasid Osman,Mohd Hafzi Md Isa,Mohd Syazwan Solah,S.A Che Ghani,A Alias,W.A Wan Hamzah

doi:10.1051/matecconf/20179001038

Abstract

In its bid to become a developed nation in a few years’ time, Malaysia has to consider various prevailing socio-economic and sociotechnical issues in the country. In the transportation sector per se, the ELV policy and initiative is one of the lacking parts in the country’s automotive ecosystem – in which a successful ELV program will not only cater the environmental concern but also help the safer car initiative for road users. This particular paper discusses what is regarded as the preliminary findings on the ELV policy from the Malaysia’s automotive ecosystem study database. From a total of 484 respondents, 268 or 55.4% had agreed to the proposal to introduce an age limit for passenger vehicles in Malaysia. The majority of those who gave their nod to the policy choose 10 years of vehicle age as the limit (38.9%), and a staggering 79.8% of them supposed that the age limit should be between 5 to 10 years. Further analysis based on the Multiple Logistic Regression found out that from a total of nine important variables related to car users’ profile and ownership status, the significant predictors to “the agreement to introduce vehicle age limit” were age, income and car status (new or used). Thus, this finding might be beneficial for the policymakers to strategize the ELV policy that sooner or later should be implemented in the Malaysia’s “developed country” environment.

Highlights

In Malaysia’s road transportation layout, private vehicles, in which the majority are cars and motorcycles, play an important role in everyone’s daily routine
The main aim of this paper is to explore the car users’ opinion on the proposal to introduce an age limit to passenger vehicles in the country
The analysis demonstrated that the buying-in process for the implementation of End-of-Life Vehicles (ELV) policy may very well accepted by those with higher income level

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Introduction

In Malaysia’s road transportation layout, private vehicles, in which the majority are cars and motorcycles, play an important role in everyone’s daily routine. Since the public transport oriented mobility in the country is still not at satisfactory level according to the world’s standard, both motorcycles and cars are the most convenient options for the daily commuting needs [1]. It perhaps a big surprise to the non-Malaysians to know that prior to the introduction of “F” series, there were two highest bidding so far in the Road Transport Department (RTD) history [4]. They were “W 1 N” that symbolizes the word “WIN” (MYR 748,000 or about USD 200,000) and “WWW 1” that is linked to the internet’s World Wide Web (MYR 520,000 or about USD 130,000). It is expected that the recently launched “F” series registration number plate will contribute multi-million ringgits to the government revenue through RTD, in which the number “F1” will be the main target [4]

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