Rosmadi Fauzi

Balancing water, religion and tourism on Redang Island, Malaysia.

Redang Island (Pulau Redang) is an island off of Peninsular Malaysia that is part of a Marine Park archipelago of corals and thousands of fish and invertebrates. The relatively isolated local community is generally centered on fishing, and Islam guides daily life. Recently, the tourism industry has expanded on the island. New hotels and resorts provide jobs, but also expose the locals to western culture and touristic behavior, which may clash with deeply traditional community values. Further, the tourism industry may be putting a strain on the natural resources, especially the quantity and quality of freshwater. The island village may become divided between those who support the tourism industry and those who do not. Here we present an exploratory investigation into the development–environment–culture dynamics of tourism, water and religion on Redang Island while building collaborations between universities of this Muslim state and the West.

Geographic Information System (GIS) modeling approach to determine the fastest delivery routes

This study involves the adoption of the Geographic Information System (GIS) modeling approach to determine the quickest routes for fresh vegetable delivery. During transport, fresh vegetables mainly deteriorate on account of temperature and delivery time. Nonetheless, little attention has been directed to transportation issues in most areas within Kuala Lumpur. In addition, perishable food normally has a short shelf life, thus timely delivery significantly affects delivery costs. Therefore, selecting efficient routes would consequently reduce the total transportation costs. The regression model is applied in this study to determine the parameters that affect route selection with respect to the fastest delivery of fresh vegetables. For the purpose of this research, ArcGIS software with network analyst extension is adopted to solve the problem of complex networks. The final output of this research is a map of quickest routes with the best delivery times based on all variables. The variables tested from regression analysis are the most effective parameters to make the flow of road networks slower. The objective is to improve the delivery services by achieving the least drive time. The main findings of this research are that Land use such as residential area and population as variables are the effective parameters on drive time.

Spatial patterns of seaweed distribution in Malaysia using GIS

The objective of this article is to represent spatial patterns of seaweed distribution in Malaysia. Seaweeds have been collected since 1984 along coastlines of 4675 km of peninsular Malaysia, Sabah, and Sarawak. However, there is no seaweed database and they cannot be displayed in a geographic view. Therefore, a database with 805 georeferenced observations was setup and GIS is used to analyze seaweed diversity based on this database. The highest number of observations is 94 which occur along east coastline of peninsular Malaysia. The highest number of species richness is 82 which are also along east coastline of peninsular Malaysia. Rhodophyta has the highest species richness while Chlorophyta has the least species richness.

Application of geographic information system (GIS) in routing for delivery of fresh vegetables

In recent years, issues for distribution of fresh vegetables become important concern for markets where their income is strongly depends on demand for more fresher production. The focus of this study is more on delivery of fresh vegetables in selecting the best routes particularly for urban area such as Kuala Lumpur city which is facing with the traffic problem. This research will conduct a company as a case study which is producing all kinds of fresh vegetables. This company is interesting in reducing their total distribution cost based on total travelled distance and total length of drive time. For this research needs to apply the GIS (Geographic Information System) technique. This technique is the respond for requirements of this research by using the network analyzing.

Development of online Spatial Multi-Criteria Decision Analyst application: Case study on determining area suitability for school location in Surabaya, Indonesia

A decision sometimes needs to consider many aspects and to be judged by many people. Presenting a case of finding a suitable location for a new school this research proposes seven factors which its emphasis will be differently sorted by various people perspective. Each factor comes in a form of a multi-polygon layer that valued from 0 to 9, representing the suitability value of the certain aspect in the whole city area. The Public and some expert will judge by using the pair-wise comparison of those aspects. This research will provide web GIS application that will use by the public and the expert in this justification process and analyzing the result.

Biophysical factors of remote sensing approach in urban green analysis

Greenery in an urban environment is an important consideration when studying temperature, and such enquiry can benefit human health. The purpose of this paper is to investigate how ambient temperature in urban areas is affected by forests and parks. The focus is on biophysical parameters related to these green areas, such as impervious surface percentages, albedo, areal coverage, elevation, and leaf area index (LAI). Geographic information systems and remote sensing were used to quantify green spaces using a pixel-based method. It was found that coverage area has little correlation with temperature. Factor analysis was used to determine the minimum number of independent factors, which explained 63% of the variance of that temperature. Only elevation, LAI and albedo were significant biophysical factors. Guidelines for greenery programmes should include these significant data-sets to understand the influence of green areas on heat reduction.

Modelling School Bus in Favor of Needy Student: The Conceptual Framework

Surabaya city is not yet have a school bus system. With a numerous needy student, the government is realized that free school bus can support the needy student in their transportation cost. The purpose of this research is make a model that can be used by the government to designs the most optimal route and optimal distribution of the free school bus. This paper is focusing on the conceptual framework of the processes in finding the optimal route and analyzing the chosen route. The optimal route is a route that covers the area with the most number of potential passengers, the needy student. The needy density layer is the primary data that will accompanied with street layer, school layer, and bus depot layer. Not just finding the route, the chosen route then used in an accessibility analyst in order to find its effect of the school bus in existing transportation system. The result of this research indicates that the model in this project can be used to find the best route and can support the government in making a decision in the limitation they have. Surabaya, the second-largest city in Indonesia after Jakarta, lies at the eastern part of the island of Java. The government of Surabaya has calculated the participation rate of each education level. The participation rate is a comparison between the numbers of students in a certain education level with all citizens at the respective age level. In early 2008, in Surabaya, the elementary school participation rate was 92.92%, the secondary school participation rate was 79.85%, and in the high school participation rate was 83.53%. There are more than 19,000 citizens of elementary school age, more than 23,000 of secondary school age, and more than 17,000 of high school age who are not participating in school. The primary reason these citizens are unschooled is that they cannot pay schooling costs because they live in needy families. With the number of elementary schools, about 5 times more than the secondary schools and 7 times more than the high schools, students must travel greater distances as they advance to higher levels of education. The city government becomes the committee for public