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Mohd Faiz Hakim giving his talk on the Overview of Transport Management Beyond 2020.

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Token of appreciation to Mohd Faiz Hakim.

Mohd Faiz Hakim enlightening the students through his talk

ÎåÒ»³Ô¹Ï¹ÙÍø¡¯s Department of Logistics Management, under the Faculty of Business and Information Science, recently welcomed Mohd Faiz Hakim (Deputy Chief Executive Officer) from Asia Global Total Logistics Sdn Bhd for a lecture on the topic ¡®Overview of Transport Management Beyond 2020.¡¯ Mohd Faiz is the appointed industry advisor for the department. This lecture initiative was to engage students to become closer to the industry and relate the theory with the practical.

The target audience for this lecture was students mainly from the logistics department programmes such as Diploma in Logistics Management, BA (Hons) Logistics Management, BA (Hons) Supply Chain Operations Management and MSc in Logistics Management. The event started with a welcoming speech by logistics management department head, Assistant Professor Dr Siti Norida Wahab. Around 62 students attended the lecture.

Sustainability is the art of improving the quality of human life while living within the carrying capacity of supporting eco-systems. It is the role of every human being to bring forth a sustainable global society founded on i) respect for nature; ii) universal human rights; iii) economic justice, and iv) culture of peace. It is imperative that we, the people of Earth, declare our responsibility to one another, to the greater community of life, and to future generations. Thus, future logisticians, we have to play a great role towards how transport may reduce the carbon footprint.

It is necessary to understand the current state of logistics distribution management which involves various modes of transport. Global shipping trends are changing, vessel and terminal sizes also evolving. This leads the inventor to introduce the future modes of transport that might have a possibility to reduce traffic congestion, improve lead time, reduce cost and improve customer satisfaction.

During the lecture, Mohd Faiz covered the future modes of transport which include Hyperloop and autonomous vehicles. A Hyperloop is a proposed mode of passenger and freight transportation, first used to describe an open-source vactrain design released by a joint team from Tesla and SpaceX.

On the other hand, an autonomous vehicle is a self-driving vehicle, also known as a connected and autonomous vehicle, driverless vehicle, robo-vehicle, or robotic vehicle, which is capable of sensing its environment and moving safely with little or no human input. The session also included a sharing session on electronics. He also shared a few other future modes of transport including electronic vehicles, 3D tunnels network and the future of space tourism.

The event ended with a token of appreciation awarded to Mohd Faiz by Assistant Professor Dr Siti Norida Wahab.