Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia — a network to the MMC standard.
5 corridors linking 17 cities, about 3,100 km measured city to city in straight lines (about 3,700 km built, at a route factor of 1.2), with 5 cross-border links and crossings. The Malaysian west coast to Singapore, and Sumatra and Java joined to Malaysia by a Strait of Malacca crossing and to each other by a Sunda Strait crossing. A future crossing joins Singapore directly to Jakarta through Batam, Bangka and the Java Sea, the target as technology allows (about 880 km, the Java Sea at a mean depth of 46 m).
The Network Concept
The corridors.
Each corridor is listed below in order of its cities.
MMC Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia network concept, schematic. Dark lines are corridors; grey lines are neighbouring corridors; gold lines are cross-border links; blue dashed lines are sea crossings; gold dashed lines are mountain tunnels; the wide gold band marks the spines. Routes are indicative.
Routes are indicative. Corridors are drawn city to city, through the cities on the existing railway wherever a line exists: MMC corridors follow those lines, upgrading the line or running above it on viaduct. Where no line exists, the corridor is new build. Final alignments are set at detailed design by terrain survey, geotechnical analysis, environmental and cultural heritage assessment, and agreement between the nations they connect.
MY-1 West Coast: Alor Setar – Butterworth – Ipoh – Kuala Lumpur – Malacca – Johor Bahru
MY-2 East Coast: Kuala Lumpur – Kuantan
ID-1 Java: Merak – Jakarta – Bandung – Yogyakarta – Surabaya
ID-2 Sumatra: Medan – Pekanbaru – Palembang – Bandar Lampung
ID-3 Dumai: Dumai – Pekanbaru
Engagement
To initiate the programme in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia.
The MMC platform is available to any nation building to the standard. If your government, agency, or capital partner could initiate a project in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia: Make contact.
