The future of end-of-life vehicles (elv) in Malaysia – A feasibility study among car users in Klang valley

¹ Vehicle Safety & Biomechanics Research Centre (VSB), Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research (MIROS), 43000 Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia
² Road Safety Engineering & Environment Research Centre (REER), Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research (MIROS), 43000 Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia

^* Corresponding author: zulhaidi@miros.gov.my

Abstract

In its bid to become a developed nation in a few years’ time, Malaysia has to consider various prevailing socio-economic and sociotechnical issues in the country. In the transportation sector per se, the ELV policy and initiative is one of the lacking parts in the country’s automotive ecosystem – in which a successful ELV program will not only cater the environmental concern but also help the safer car initiative for road users. This particular paper discusses what is regarded as the preliminary findings on the ELV policy from the Malaysia’s automotive ecosystem study database. From a total of 484 respondents, 268 or 55.4% had agreed to the proposal to introduce an age limit for passenger vehicles in Malaysia. The majority of those who gave their nod to the policy choose 10 years of vehicle age as the limit (38.9%), and a staggering 79.8% of them supposed that the age limit should be between 5 to 10 years. Further analysis based on the Multiple Logistic Regression found out that from a total of nine important variables related to car users’ profile and ownership status, the significant predictors to “the agreement to introduce vehicle age limit” were age, income and car status (new or used). Thus, this finding might be beneficial for the policymakers to strategize the ELV policy that sooner or later should be implemented in the Malaysia’s “developed country” environment.