“Volvo Buses are extremely proud to be one of the organising partners behind this event. Volvo has immense experience with BRT and in fact, were the first to invent and deliver the high-capacity BRT system in Curitiba, Brazil in 1975. Since then, we have been actively involved in expanding BRT to all continents and encouraging discussions such as these to further promote the solution. For growing cities, we have seen excellent benefits from BRT systems such as, the reduction of travel time by 50% and reductions to air quality and safety due to fewer cars on the road. At Volvo buses, we truly believe BRT to be the most flexible, scalable and cost-efficient transport infrastructure and we look forward to seeing many BRT developments in Malaysia’s future” says Volvo Buses Senior Vice President, Akash Passey.
The CEO of TDA, Dato’ Zailani Safari delivered the closing remarks that summarised the conference and highlighted the importance of ICP as an economic tool to develop and strengthen Malaysia’s economy through procuring technology and knowledge that is both foreign and not available locally.
The amount of information provided at the conference was thought provoking and challenged many of the long established paradigms. The event was well appreciated by all attendees with a clear view that the journey towards BRT is well on its way, but requires stakeholders from across the transport industry to join hands to achieve long term success.
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19 November 2019
