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PEMAKLUMAN URUSAN AKADEMIK – PERKEMBANGAN SEMASA BERKAITAN PENULARAN WABAK COVID-19

Merujuk kepada perkembangan semasa dan maklumat daripada pihak Kementerian Kesihatan Malaysia (KKM), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) turut mengambil langkah-langkah pengawasan wabak COVID-19 sejak ianya dikesan bagi memastikan UTM bebas daripada wabak tersebut.

Sehubungan itu, pihak Pengurusan Universiti telah mengeluarkan Pekeliling Pentadbiran Bil 10/2020 bertarikh 29 Februari 2020 menasihatkan staf dan pelajar (termasuk UTM Mobility (outbound)) untuk menangguhkan perjalanan ke China dan negara-negara yang tersenarai oleh pihak KKM iaitu Korea Selatan, Jepun, Iran dan Itali. Bagi pelajar kanan, permohonan penangguhan pengajian yang disebabkan oleh COVID-19 diputuskan juga sebagai tidak termasuk dalam kiraan semester pengajian.  Keputusan ini terpakai sehingga keadaan kembali normal berdasarkan pengesahan pihak KKM.

Pihak Universiti juga sedia maklum terdapat pelajar antarabangsa baharu yang telah menerima tawaran mengikuti pengajian dari negara-negara yang tersenarai. Bakal pelajar (termasuk UTM Mobility (inbound)) yang belum tiba di Malaysia adalah dinasihatkan supaya menangguhkan pendaftaran masing-masing.

Semua pihak yang terlibat adalah diminta mengambil maklum dan tindakan mengenainya.

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Published Paper in Journal of Transport System Engineering Vol 6 No 1 (2019)

ASSESSMENT OF THE CAR-FREE DAY IMPLEMENTATION ON UTM CAMPUS USING A SHORTEST PATH METHOD

Mohamed Hassan, Shahabuddin Amerudin and Zainab Mohamed Yusof

A Car-Free Day (CFD) initiative was introduced on the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) campus and intended to reduce vehicle emissions, promote healthy lifestyle modes of transportation and improve environmental sustainability awareness among the campus community. This study was conducted to model and assess travel distances covered by vehicles during CFDs and Normal Days (NDs) on the UTM campus, Johor, Malaysia using Shortest Path (SP).  In this study, online and paper-based questionnaires were designed and distributed to the UTM campus community to obtain residential addresses (origins) and parking lots (destinations). In total, 119 valid questionnaires were collected for the purpose of the study. Network datasets were built within a GIS database using ArcGIS Network Analyst Extension to perform SP analyses between the two centroids of origins and destinations. The measured travel distance costs of SP analyses during CFDs and NDs were compared using dependent t-test for paired samples and the test was not significant (t(118) = 0.45, P-value > 0.05). From the results, the study reveals that there is almost no difference in travel distances during CFDs and NDs, thus, the UTM Car-Free Day initiative has no particular effect on travel distances.

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Development of Web-Based Application for Shapefile Coordinate System Conversion for Malaysia


By Elysonia Alim and Shahabuddin Amerudin

It is difficult to process GIS vector data when they are not aligned with one another. The need for different coordinate systems rose from the fact that some coordinate systems are better fitted to describe the geographical phenomenon occurring in a specific area. However, even commercial software had been proven to have questionable accuracy in coordinate system conversions. The purpose of this study is to develop a web application capable of converting the coordinate system of a GIS data format such as a shapefile for Peninsular Malaysia. The web application named Coordinate Conversion Application (CCA v1.1) was developed using Django 2.0 with Python 3.6 and is capable of five-coordinate transformations namely WGS84 to GDM2000 (forward and backward), WGS84 to MRSO (old) (forward only), MRSO (old) to Cassini (old) (forward and backward). Results obtained were compared with existing software such as GDTS v4.01 and ArcGIS 10.3, and analysis shows that CCA v1.1 has achieved satisfactory accuracy.

Published in Proceedings Asian Conference on Remote Sensing ACRS 2018 pg. 449

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Development of Web-Based Application for Shapefile Coordinate System Conversion for Malaysia

Elysonia Alim and Shahabuddin Amerudin

Department of Geoinformation, Faculty of Geoinformation and Real Estate, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 Skudai, Johor, Malaysia
Email: elysoniaalim@gmail.com; shahabuddin@utm.my

KEYWORDS: coordinate system, conversion, shapefile

ABSTRACT: It is difficult to process GIS vector data when they are not aligned with one another. The need for different coordinate systems rose from the fact that some coordinate systems are better fitted to describe the geographical phenomenon occurring in a specific area. However, even commercial software had been proven to have questionable accuracy in coordinate system conversions. The purpose of this study is to develop a web application capable of converting the coordinate system of a GIS data format such as a shapefile for Peninsular Malaysia. The web application named Coordinate Conversion Application (CCA v1.1) was developed using Django 2.0 with Python 3.6 and is capable of five-coordinate transformations namely WGS84 to GDM2000 (forward and backward), WGS84 to MRSO (old) (forward only), MRSO (old) to Cassini (old) (forward and backward). Results obtained were compared with existing software such as GDTS v4.01 and ArcGIS 10.3, and analysis shows that CCA v1.1 has achieved satisfactory accuracy.

Topic: Web GIS Applications

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