LLM Chairman: Tuju Not Built to Compete With Waze

Malaysian Highway Authority (LLM) chairman Hasni Mohammad says Tuju was never meant to compete directly with Waze.

He said it was built to improve services on tolled highways, not as a Waze-style navigation app. “We only collaborated to improve our traffic management centre,” he said.

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Tuju offers traffic updates, rest area information, enforcement camera locations and emergency assistance contacts for toll highway users. Hasni said the Prime Minister has told him to upgrade it.

Expansion to federal, municipal and village roads is possible in 10 to 15 years, depending on technical capability and funding.

He acknowledged concerns over how Tuju was presented to the National Security Council on Oct 20, though he did not attend the briefing. If LLM’s briefing was misleading, he said, it should not have happened, and it is not to be taken lightly.

Hasni also defended the deal with Prosignal Consortium, which was not awarded through open tender.

He said the board approved it collectively, not former chairman Abdul Rashid Asari alone, and that no government funds were involved because investors finance Tuju. LLM signed an initial memorandum with Prosignal in May 2022, before Hasni took over in August 2022.

Anwar has since admitted Tuju is not fully complete, and the Cabinet has asked LLM and Prosignal to explain the technical problems.