The paper focuses on the modelling attempt of willingness to pay for an improved bus service in selected cities and towns of Malaysia. Using responses from onboard intercept surveys, 1,130 samples of bus passengers have been analysed so as to arrive at a simplified model of how passengers trade off their money with possible upgrading of bus service

This paper aims to analyze the stability of nonlinear localized modes in dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates in optical lattice by anti-continuum approach. It is relatively convenient to employ the anti-continuum method for solving discrete nonlinear Schrödinger equation. This method has shown the ability to produce similar result of analysis of the

Central to this paper is the Islamic perspective of transportation planning and development. A pro-active effort consolidating major Quranic verses and the Prophets Muhammad's Hadith pertaining to the conception, development and advancement of transportation, it is a systematically documented reference for the aspiring transportation profession

Two common concerns for residents in their respective residential areas are high traffic speeds and noise levels. This paper analyses if road humps are viable as a measure for improving residential living environment based on their effects on traffic speed and noise. The study was conducted in three Malaysian residential areas: Putrajaya, Taman Set

A research on bus stop gap detection is presented in this paper. Planning and development of bus stops required various considerations. Land availability, landuse, catchment, route matching, infrastructure fitting, barrier free and micro-climate friendly design are some of the factors heeded prior to such installations. These are important to ensur

The oil quality parameters of the seed oil of Baobab (Adansonia digitata) were evaluated using standard methods of analysis. The Iodine value, Peroxide value, Saponification value were 86 g/100g, 4.08 mEq/Kg, 188 mg/g, respectively, for seed oil. The oil content of the kernel was higher 23% compared to the hulls that contain 5.4% oil. The kernel oi

Carrier Division Multiple Access is considered as an efficient technique in wireless communication due to its high possibility to serve an unlimited number of users. CDMA uses the same frequency concurrently with wireless communication. In this paper, the performance and evaluation of turbo code are duly presented followed by the examination of CDM

The topic of mergers and acquisitions continues to receive significant attention from both academic and practical perspectives. The growing incidence of company takeovers, especially cross-border, raises significant policy concerns. The sustainability of companies domestically and globally has thus become a major concern. There is a dire need for l

Takeovers and mergers are complex business transaction especially when they take place cross-border. Due to its complex nature, it is inevitable that some takeovers and mergers deals result in disputes. Takeovers and mergers can be successful by implementing a problem solving system that deals with a dispute at an early stage. This corporate exerci

The problem of finding the optimal coalition structure arises frequently in multiagent systems. Heuristic approaches for solving this problem are needed because of its computational complexity. This paper studies two such approaches: tabu search and simulated annealing. Through simulations we show that tabu search generates better quality solutions