Sustainable, safe, smart—three key elements of Singapore’s evolving transport policies

Boyle, Linda Ng; Chin, Hoong Chor; Debnath, Ashim Kumar

doi:10.1016/j.tranpol.2012.11.017

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“…This type of CP contains two main subcategories; cordon schemes and zonal schemes that are subsequently described in this paper. In comparison with a facility-based scheme, the CPZ type has the advantage of intercepting more trips and is more suitable for traffic-congestion reduction [5].…”

Section: Congestion Pricing (Cp)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Singapore's Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) [5] system, introduced in July 1998, is the first time that such a model has been implemented on such a wide scale to manage traffic congestion. The chief aim of the ERP is to alleviate congestion and increase traffic flow in a designated part of city (the restricted-zone amplitude is approximately 725 hectares) by imposing a charge on vehicles that are considered the main contributors to congestion.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For many years, CP remained as just an idea, but the interest in the concept gradually spread beyond academia and it was eventually practiced to a limited extent. Since the late 1980s, CP-implementation attempts have occurred; currently, the foremost functioning CP systems are the London Congestion Charge [3], the Stockholm cordon charge [4], Singapore's Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) system [5], and the Norwegian toll ring [6], all of which are compared in the Literature section. All of the previously mentioned CP systems provide the same advantages and achievements such as the redirection of people into public-transportation systems, the provision of a source of funds to improve public transport, the enhancement of road facilities, the decrease of emissions in city atmospheres, the alleviation of traffic congestion, and the increases of traffic flow and general speed in most congested areas [7].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Congestion pricing has been defined as the best solution to efficiently alleviate the traffic congestion in a designated area. Generally, the basis of congestion pricing zone (CPZ) systems comprised of the following three main phases: vehicle detection, data communication, and enforcement. In terms of data communication, the majority of the existing systems utilize Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) which contains several limitations such as a low transmission range, low data rate, communication drawbacks like delay, tag and reader collisions, signal fading, and interception. In this particular context, it would be very constructive to take advantage of a Vehicular ad hoc Network (VANET) that is based on the Dedicated Short Range Communication (DSRC) method to design a pervasive-congestion pricing system. This study aims to design an optimized CPZmanagement model using VANET to solve the existing mainstream problems. The proposed approach is evaluated and validated using a simulation environment and a selection of tools including NS-2, SUMO, and TraNS. The experimental results from two different scenarios (i.e. using RFID-based RSU and DSRC-based RSU) were attained after considering the number, velocity, and occupancy of the contributed vehicles, and the traffic flow. The obtained results show that DSRC outperformed RFID in terms of occupancy, traffic flow, and velocity by an average of 8.27%, 22%, and 13.75%, respectively. Consequently, the DSRC employment under VANET infrastructure not only enhances data-communication, but also reduces traffic congestion around CPZ.

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“…The role of technologies has been widely recognized but also criticized when overexploited (Haque et al, 2013), and ICT has even been accused of decreasing the role of people, their needs and resources (Klimovský, Pinterič and Šaparnienė, 2016). In order to avoid these issues, city managers have to identify and develop new forms of participation for all stakeholders in smart cities (Nam and Pardo, 2011), namely people, private sector actors, universities and research centers, institutions and organizations.…”

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Our purpose is to identify the relevance of participative governance in urban areas characterized by smart cities projects, especially those implementing Living Labs initiatives as real-life settings to develop services innovation and enhance engagement of all urban stakeholders.A research on the three top smart cities in Europe -i.e. Amsterdam, Barcelona and Helsinki -is proposed through a content analysis with NVivo on the offi cial documents issued by the project partners (2012)(2013)(2014)(2015) to investigate their Living Lab initiatives.The results show the increasing usefulness of Living Labs for the development of more inclusive smart cities projects in which public and private actors, and people, collaborate in innovation processes and governance for the co-creation of new services, underlining the importance of the open and ecosystem-oriented approach for smart cities.

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“…Three cities in the above list from three different continents (Freiburg, Curitiba and Singapore) have been of particular interest to sustainable transport researchers, generating the following single-city journal articles: on Freiburg (FitzRoy and Ryan and Throgmorton, 2003;Buehler and Pucher, 2011;Kronsell, 2013;and Freytag et al, 2014); on Curitiba (Rabinovitch, 1996;Smith and Raemakers, 1998;Taniguchi, 2001;Duarte et al, 2011;Khayesi and Amekudzi, 2011;Miranda and de Silva, 2012;Macedo, 2013;and Mercier et al, 2015); and on Singapore (Willoughby, 2001;May, 2004;Lam and Toan, 2006;Richmond, 2008;Han, 2010;and Haque et al, 2013).…”

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Sustainable, safe, smart—three key elements of Singapore’s evolving transport policies

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Co-Governing Smart Cities Through Living Labs. Top Evidences From EU

Car-Free Urban Areas: A Radical Solution to the Last Mile Problem or a Step Too Far?

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