The variety of disruptions on the Fast Rail community has dropped considerably this 12 months, with 25 occurrences as of August in comparison with the 71 that had been reported final 12 months and 118 in 2023. Transport minister Anthony Loke mentioned this was attributable to a number of strategic initiatives carried out by the rail operator to boost service reliability and cut back technical faults throughout its rail strains, the New Straits Occasions studies.
He mentioned that as of August, the imply kilometres between failure, translating to the typical distance a prepare can journey earlier than a disruption happens, had risen to 550,000 km, up from 330,300 km in 2024 and 160,000 km in 2023. Nevertheless, he added that there was nonetheless room to enhance additional.
“Whereas these enhancements mark progress over earlier years, the ministry recognises that even a single disruption causes inconvenience to passengers. So, the ministry will proceed to assist Fast Rail in additional enhancing the reliability of LRT, MRT and monorail companies, whereas lowering the variety of disruptions,” he mentioned in a written parliamentary reply.
Loke was responding to a query from Syahredzan Johan (PH–Bangi) on Fast Rail’s methods to forestall or deal with extended service disruptions. The transport minister mentioned considered one of Fast Rail’s key approaches is adopting a extra proactive, data-driven upkeep, together with condition-based and predictive upkeep via the set up of sensible sensors on important elements, which permits it to foretell potential failures and perform repairs earlier than incidents happen.
“Fast Rail has additionally established a system analytics centre for real-time monitoring of prepare techniques and rail infrastructure as a part of these initiatives. It has entered into long-term service assist agreements with authentic tools suppliers to make sure the provision of spare components and ongoing technical assist,” he mentioned.
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