End of lane hoggers? Malaysia trials minimum speed limits to combat highway congestion

End of lane hoggers? Malaysia trials minimum speed limits to combat highway congestion

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 7 — We are all familiar with maximum speed limits designed to keep us safe. Now, the Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research (Miros) is flipping the script...

MIROS trial on minimum speed limit on highways at three locations on PLUS and SKVE to run until October 31

On August 1, the Malaysian institute of road safety research (MIROS), together with the Malaysian highway authority (LLM) and highway concessionaires PLUS and SKVE began running a proof-of-concept (POC) trial for minimum advisory speed limits on three stretches of highways. The idea behind the POC, which runs until October 31, is to see if motorists can move away from the practice of “lane hogging,” with the idea of inculcating the use of the co…