Malaysia Deploys AI In Road Management - Works Minister

Works Minister Datuk Seri Alexander Nanta Linggi, has announced the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) for enhanced road management. This initiative, revealed at the 2025 ITS Asia Pacific Forum in South Korea, aims to improve infrastructure preservation, safety, and efficiency.

The strategy, according to Nanta, involves using smart monitoring technologies like sensors, drones, and IoT to detect road damage in real time. AI will then analyze this data to forecast future damage and identify critical areas for immediate repair.

Nanta also presented the Malaysian ITS Roadmap 2030, a plan for a safer, more connected, and sustainable national mobility system. He emphasized ITS's importance for future cities, noting the roadmap will guide the nation's ITS transformation.

The roadmap focuses on seamless smart mobility, hyperconnected transport, green mobility transition, data utilization for planning, a secure ecosystem, and enhanced public services via digitization.
“All these plans can be translated into action. Malaysia will continue to innovate, invest and collaborate to build a country that is hyperconnected,” he says.
The minister also highlighted the current changes taking place in Malaysia, such as the rise in self-driving cars, the adoption of electric vehicles for public transport, the Multi-Lane Free Flow (MLFF) system, and the creation of the National Intelligent Traffic Management Centre (NITMC).


“These transformation initiatives illustrate Malaysia’s strong commitment to building a safer, more efficient and sustainable transport ecosystem,” Nanta stated.