ITS in Singapore Deployment and Innovation of ITS

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

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

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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

ITS in Singapore

ITS in Singapore

ITS in Singapore

ITS in Singapore Rapid Transit Network - 2030 WOODLANDS SELETAR TAMPINES JURONG EAST Heavy Capacity Strategic MRT Medium Capacity Strategic LRT Light Capacity LRT

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ITS in Singapore 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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ITS in Singapore 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) 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 o

ITS in Singapore Gantry Equipment o Antennae 1/3

ITS in Singapore Gantry Equipment o Antennae o Vehicle Detectors 2/3

ITS in Singapore Gantry Equipment o Antennae o Vehicle Detectors o Enforcement Cameras 3/3

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

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

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

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)

Prior Incident Back-up Images ITS in Singapore 03: 10 03: 12 03: 14 03: 16 03: 18 03: 20 03: 22 03: 24 03: 26 03: 28 03: 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 Traffic. Scan • Based on speed gathered by taxis with DGPS receivers

ITS in Singapore ez-Link Farecard System MRT processor Bus processor • 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

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 • http: //www. onemotoring. com. sg • S$3. 8 million (US$2 million)

ITS in Singapore Transit. Smart

ITS in Singapore Transit. Smart • Phase 1 – Static bus and train information – Operational at http: //transit. smart. lta. gov. sg • Phase 2 – With real-time vehicle location system

ITS in Singapore Smar. Travel@IBP The On-Board Unit installed in a shuttle bus Smar. Travel@IBP webpage showing the predicted arrival times and the realtime 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 2005 2003 2005

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ITS in Singapore 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