Traffic in Singapore

Singapore City area of 700 square kilometers, car ownership more than 900,000, with an average almost every car has a 1286 square kilometers. Traffic is obviously congested. Can be "blocked" phenomenon is almost gone. Analyze the reasons, summarized as Singapore attaches great importance to the overall planning of road traffic system.

Buy a car in Singapore is a luxurious thing. The car certificate purchase cost about 3 times the basic price of the car. Among 10 Singaporeans, the number of car ownership is less than 2. Singapore government is clearly aware, the Singapore Land resources are scarce, if not take control of car ownership, Singapore will become a huge parking lot. So, to effectively control the number of vehicles on our roads Singapore Land Transport Authority provides only to a fixed number of monthly car payment car ownership certificate.

The next step is for the traveling car shunt. In 1998, Singapore began to implement automatic electronic toll collection, the use of short-range communications technology and IC card prepaid replace manual toll collection, vehicle goes through a toll gate without stopping. Government fees may be adjusted based on the average speed of the vehicle. Slow speed on the toll increase , faster speed is reduced charges. On entering the city center of Singapore all channels, depending on the location, have set up automatic electronic toll collection system, fees go depending on the time, traffic volume and vehicle. The electronic toll will automatically deduct a fee from the prepaid electronic card from every passing car. Currently a total of 66 Singapore automatic electronic toll. Electronic toll collection through a peak time to pay up to four dollar, then charges depending on the time and location. If you go downtown before 9:00 o'clock , generally after three times, first to pay four dollar, and the second payment of two dollar and half, and the third payment of one dollar. The general public said, traveling into the city would have pay "money " of up to eight dollar. So in order to save money, many people do not choose to go downtown during peak hours, so that to achieve the diversion effect.