SYNOPSIS

This seminar is intended to give aspiring road engineers an overview of the complete road design process. As such, the seminar will encompass all major aspects of road engineering including traffic study, geometric design and Road Safety Audit.

In the traffic study segment, Ir. Chin Kar Keong will be speaking on the steps involved including traffic data collection, data processing and forecasting and how these steps transform raw traffic data into meaning information like traffic survey, common traffic characteristics, level of service analysis, weaving performance analysis, trip generation and distribution as well as future traffic volume. The significance of these components and the interpretation of their results will be discussed and deliberated.

Ir. Ts. Syed Khairi will demonstrate the usage of relevant software to perform traffic simulation and forecast based on the fundamentals traffic information obtained from site data collection. The results from this traffic simulation will be used to form traffic forecast and future pattern.


BIODATA OF SPEAKER

Ir. Chin Kar Keong is currently the Managing Director of Atur Trafik Sdn Bhd. His past experience included conducting transport studies for National Highway Network Development Plan 2030, National Physical Plan 3, Kuala Lumpur Traffic Master Plan 2040, Kuala Lumpur City Plan 2020, Study on Bus Transportation System in the Klang Valley Region and various master planning projects for Iskandar Regional Development Authority, Northern Corridor Implementation Authority and East Coast Economic Regional Development Authority. He has also conducted demand forecast studies for toll highways, Express Rail Link, KL Monorel and other transit projects and submitted more than 300 Traffic Impact Assessment (TIA) reports to various local authorities in Malaysia. His current professional and research interests included formulation of active mobility solutions and Mobility as a Service for sustainable urban transportation system.

Ir. Chin Kar Keong is a registered Professional Engineer with Practising Certificate who has been active in the fields of traffic engineering and transport planning for 36 years. He graduated from the University of Kyoto with a Bachelor of Engineering (Civil Engineering) in 1982 and Master of Engineering (Civil Engineering) in 1984. He has also attended post-graduate courses in Infrastructure Planning and Regional Economics at the Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm from 1992 to 1994.

Ir. Chin Kar Keong is an active Council Member of the Intelligent Transport Systems Association of Malaysia, Corporate Member of ACEM, Member of REAM and past Chairman and Advisor to the Highway and Transportation Engineering Technical Division in IEM. He was one of the committee members that produced the REAM – GL 10/2011 Guidelines for TIA which has since been updated by JKR as ATJ 38/2018.

Ir. Ts. Syed Khairi bin Syed Abbas holds a Bachelor of Civil Engineering with Honours and a Master's in Civil Engineering. He is registered as a Professional Engineer with the Board of Engineers, Malaysia (BEM) and a Professional Technologist with the Malaysian Board of Technologists (MBOT). He is a Corporate Member of the Institute of Engineers, Malaysia (IEM) and has been actively involved as a Committee Member in the Highway Transportation Engineering Technical Division (HTETD, IEM).

With over 13 years of working experience, he has spent 7+ years in the academic sector, focusing on management, administration, research, programme accreditation, teaching, and learning activities. Additionally, he has accumulated more than 6 years of industry engineering practice in civil engineering, particularly specializing in traffic, highway, and transportation engineering.