ITS in Singapore Deployment and Innovation of ITS in Singapore Der-Horng Lee, PhD Associate Professor Department of Civil Engineering National University of Singapore ITS in Singapore

Singapore is a city state in South East Asia, a garden city.

ITS in Singapore Independence: 9 August 1965 Land: approx. 660 sq km Population: approx. 4 million Vehicles: approx. 700,000

ITS in Singapore Singapore in Global Transportation  World top airport: Changi Int’l Airport  World top airline: Singapore Airlines  World busiest port: number 1 transshipment port  World top port operator: PSA  Comprehensive and efficient land transport systems: backboned by ITS

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Integrated Land Use and Transport Planning Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA)Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) Housing Development Board (HDB)Housing Development Board (HDB) Jurong Town Council (JTC)Jurong Town Council (JTC) Land Transport Authority (LTA)Land Transport Authority (LTA)

ITS in Singapore Public Housing Provision of high rise public housingProvision of high rise public housing 800,000+ units have been built800,000+ units have been built Over 85% of the people are housed in public housingOver 85% of the people are housed in public housing Over 95% owner-occupiedOver 95% owner-occupied

ITS in Singapore Land Transport in Singapore Total road length 3,110 km (including 150 km of expressways and 571 km of major arterials) Vehicle population: 710,000 (including 400,000 private passenger cars) Mass rapid transit: 65 stations, 105 km of tracks Bus transport: 3,400 buses serving 200+ routes, 2 operators Taxi: 19,000 fleet size, 7 operators Mode share: 55% by bus and mass transit

ITS in Singapore Better Public Transport Expand MRT coverage and capacity Build LRT, seamless transfer Upgrade BUS services Accessible, affordable and comfortable

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Rapid Transit Network Medium Capacity Strategic LRT Light Capacity LRT Heavy Capacity Strategic MRT JURONG EAST WOODLANDS SELETAR TAMPINES

ITS in Singapore LRT At your doorsteps

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Land Transport Authority (LTA) Established in 1995 Under Ministry of Transport Single agency responsible for land transport policy, facilities, operations and management ITS has been adopted as a main strategy

ITS in Singapore LTA’s White Paper Multi-pronged strategy o Integrated planning o Expansion of road network o Improve public transport o Demand management o Harness advanced technologies

ITS in Singapore ITS Deployments in Singapore Expressway Monitoring and Advisory System (EMAS) Adaptive traffic signal control, GLIDE (Singapore’s version of SCATS) Transit.Smart Traffic.Smart i-transport

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Road Pricing o Manual road pricing introduced in the Central Business District (CBD) since 1975 o High manpower needs, inconvenient, limited in varying road pricing charges

ITS in Singapore Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) o Automated with the Road Pricing system (Area Licensing Scheme, ALS) o Fully replacing the manual scheme in Sep 98 o A new generation of ERP is being studied

ITS in Singapore Gantry Equipment 1/3 oAntennae

ITS in Singapore Gantry Equipment 2/3 oAntennae oVehicle Detectors

ITS in Singapore Gantry Equipment 3/3 oAntennae oVehicle Detectors oEnforcement Cameras

ITS in Singapore How does it work? Antenna Controller ECS Site Controller Detector Controller Antenna Controller AVID Controller Comms. Controller Central Computer System Local Controller Housing

ITS in Singapore How does it work? Antenna Controller ECS Site Controller Detector Controller Antenna Controller AVID Controller Comms. Controller Central Computer System Local Controller Housing

ITS in Singapore How does it work? Antenna Controller ECS Site Controller Detector Controller Antenna Controller AVID Controller Comms. Controller Central Computer System Local Controller Housing

ITS in Singapore Gantry-less Electronic Road Pricing

ITS in Singapore Expressway Monitoring & Advisory Systems (EMAS) Covers 300 directional-km of expressway network 240+ PTZ surveillance cameras 57+ detection cameras Tow trucks free of charge

ITS in Singapore EMAS 170+ travel time displays 140+ VMS Total cost S$126 million (US$70 million)

ITS in Singapore Prior Incident Back-up Images 03:10 03:14 03:16 03:12 03:18 03:20 03:2203:24 03:26 03:2803:30 03:32

ITS in Singapore Green Link Determining (GLIDE) Systems Based on SCATS Implemented since 1988 More than 2,000 intersections in 17 regions S$27.5 million (US$15 million) Network pattern

ITS in Singapore Junction Electronic Eyes (J-Eyes) PTZ surveillance cameras at intersections Started with 5 intersections in 1999 Expanded to 230 intersections in 2004 S$14 million (US$8 million)

ITS in Singapore Automated Taxi Dispatching System Based on DGPS receivers and wireless private networks Adopted by all operators Approximately 100,000 dispatches a day

ITS in Singapore TrafficScan Based on speed gathered by taxis with DGPS receivers

ITS in Singapore ez-Link Farecard System Since April 2002 Contactless smart card Use in MRT, buses, & potentially taxi and other business transactions Tap on processors at entrance & exit Max fare deducted at entrance but refund at exit Fare calculation aided by DGPS MRT processor Bus processor

ITS in Singapore ez-Link Farecard System Bus system –2 bus companies –3,400 buses –200+ routes –3.13 million pax-trips/day MRT system –105 km of parallel tracks –65 stations –1.3 million pax-trips/day Bus+MRT 4.4 million pax-trips/day 55% of home-to-work trips

ITS in Singapore Traffic.Smart

ITS in Singapore S$3.8 million (US$2 million)

ITS in Singapore Transit.Smart

ITS in Singapore Transit.Smart Phase 1Phase 1 –Static bus and train information –Operational at Phase 2Phase 2 –With real-time vehicle location system

ITS in Singapore The On-Board Unit installed in a shuttle bus webpage showing the predicted arrival times and the real-time locations of the shuttle buses The 42” plasma display at Strategy building

ITS in Singapore i-transport Integrated control facilities at ITS Centre Scalable data warehouse for information dissemination and research Customized applications such as statistical, inference and simulation tools Web-based data pipeline for all authorized users To be completed by

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i-transport Modules

ITS in Singapore Remarks >S$420 million (US$233 million) has been spent –>S$0.6 million per km of major road –>S$600 per vehicle Earlier (pre-2000) systems are independent & isolated Already moving into 2 nd generation of integrated and interoperable system

ITS in Singapore Remarks ITS technology testbed Integrations –ITS systems, deployments –Transport technologies, transport policies, land use, and urban development Emphasis on operation and sustainability instead of ad-hoc deployments ITS business model