Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Professor Karl L. Bang

Professor Karl Bang is a UiTM Distinguished Visiting Professor who is currently attached with the Malaysian Institute of Transport (MITRANS). Prof Bang is a professor from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.
Today he gave a professorial talk on "The Role of Centre of Excellence - The Swedish Experience, Bridging Postgraduate Research Programmes with Industry and Securing International Research Grants". He particularly cited the case of the Transport Research Commission (TRC), a centre of excellence at his university that has successfully work collaboratively with major Swedish transport related "actors" (government agencies shippers, forwarders, transport equipment producers, traffic authorities and universities) in order to achieve a common goal of "promoting efficient, safe and clean transport.
MITRANS should take advantage and synergize with TRC in order to play a more significant role in improving road safety and the public transport system in this country. Thanks Prof Bang for a very insightful feedback...

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