SINGAPORE EFFORTS TO CONTROL TRAFFIC

CONGESTION & POLLUTION

BY:CRAIG D’SOUZAAAKASH MONCYKALYANI AVASAK

Traffi c congestion

Queuing in runway

Traffic congestion in the Airport

Negative effects: Reduce in regional economic health. Delays resulting in lost business , personal losses etc…(late arrivals). Inability to forecast travel time accurately. wasted fuel increases air pollution & co2 emission which contribute

Global warmingFrequent repairs & replacements of vehicles.Causing health problems in motorists….[stress, frustration ]. Emergency vehicles may be blocked. “ rat running”( affects the neighborhood amenity) .

Main solution for controlling traffic congestion is

Congestion pricing

Congestion pricing or congestion charge is a system of surcharging users of transport network in periods of peak Demand to reduce traffic congestion……

Types of congestion pricing

Cordon area pricing

Area wide pricing

City center toll ring pricing

Corridor or single facility pricing

Cordon area pricing: charges for passing the cordon line around a city center.Area wide pricing: charges for being inside

an area.Toll ring pricing: Toll collection surrounding

the city.Corridor pricing : Access to a lane is priced.

CONGESTION PRICING

OBJECTIVE :To make users more aware of the costs that they impose upon one another when consuming during the peak demand, and that they should pay for the additional congestion they create.i.e. when demand exceeds supply…….

Congestion pricing is widely used by telephone and electric utilities, metros,railways & auto bus services.

Critics maintain that congestion pricing is not equitable, places an economic burden on neighboring communities, has a negative effect on retail businesses and on economic activity in general, and is just another tax.

Electronic Road pricing

Sreet markings and a sign (inset) with the white-on-red C alert drivers to the congestion charge.

ELECTRONIC PARKINGSYSTEM

A system that enables settlement of parking fees without parking tickets and cash.

IU-> in-vehicle unit.CHU->charging unit.

More than 99% of vehicles in Singapore are equipped with IU’s.Toll fee is collected into the IU’s using RF communication from IC cards.

Features of Electronic parking system:

Availability Flexibility of car park operation Reliability Service time

Access control systemCharging systemFree-flow charging system

Types of Electronic parking system

Electronic parkingsystem

Traffic decreased by about 13% during ERP operational hours.Vehicles decreasing from 270,000 to 235,000.Carpooling has increased.Average road speeds increased by about 20%.

Positive effectives

TrEPSTraffic estimation & prediction system

This new system integrates with existing systems like

Green link determining system (GLIDE).Traffic scan.Expressway Monitoring Advisory system(EMAS).Junction Electronic Eyes (J-Eyes).Electronic road pricing (ERP).

This system is designed To allow variable pricing.Improved overall Traffic management.Alert drivers about conditions ahead.Charging the prices at the moment.

Trial results:Accuracy more than 85%.Predictions up to 60 minutes

Control tower in Singapore

Efforts in controlling Air pollution

Singapore Green plan 2012 (SGP 2012)

AIM: To reduce Green house gas emissions up to 5% by 2012.

By using :New air pollution controlling equipments like Air filters , Gas&

smoke analysis apparatus.Solar panel technology as Energy provider.Natural gas instead of fuels to generate electricity.By installing catalytic converter in motor vehicles. Alternate energy such as hydro-electric power or wind power instead of fossil fuels. Encouragement of more eco-friendly vehicle use through

“Green vehicle rebate.”

Green vehicle rebate

AIM: To make consumers more environmentally friendly & to support clean Emerging technologies.

GREEN VEHICLES are more fuel efficient & emit less air pollutants.

GVR was first introduced in 2001.