Singapore's Government's Actions

Work of an ERP

In Singapore, the government plays an active role in the lives of its citizens. Dealing with traffic jams has become a major concern to the government. Even though traffic jams are still present in today’s time, there are a lot of things that the government has done to reduce traffic.

The approach that the government of Singapore chose to deal with traffic is by providing an efficient public transport system. Singapore has a lot of public transport service including MRT, SMRT, and taxi. These public transports complement each other and really makes travelling in Singapore much more effective and efficient. The MRT is suitable for far distance travels, the SMRT is suitable for specific-destination travels, and taxi is more for personal and custom travels. In addition, improvements for public transport in Singapore are always conducted annually including new MRT lines, more buses, and more trains.  

Other than public transport, another approach that has been chosen by the government of Singapore to reduce the congestion of traffic is road pricing. This is probably the most important and efficient solution that has been successfully reduced the amount of traffic. Singapore was the first country in the world to apply the approach of increasing road pricing to manage vehicle demand. It started in 1975 under the title of Area Licensing System (ALS).

The last approach that has been done by the government is improving the infrastructure of the roads of Singapore. Singapore has a very high-maintenance in its infrastructure and there is almost no damaged road in Singapore. In addition, Singapore never stops improving and building more roads, expressways, bridges, and walkways to compensate the growth of Singapore’s population.