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Autopass Card is a stored-value smart card that allows paying VEP fees, toll charges and ERP fees in Singapore.The card is sold only to foreign motorists. As vehicle information is encoded in the card, it is not transferable between vehicles.
Private car licence plate numbers began in the early 1900s when Singapore was one of the four Straits Settlements, with a single prefix S for denoting Singapore, then adding a suffix letter S 'B' to S 'Y' for cars, but skipping a few like S 'A' (reserved for motorcycles), S 'H' (reserved for taxis), S 'D' (reserved for municipal vehicles), and S 'G' for goods vehicles large and small.
The Certificate of Entitlement (COE) are classes of categories as part of a quota license for owning a vehicle in Singapore. [1] The licence is obtained from a successful winning bid in an open bid uniform price auction which grants the legal right of the holder to register, own and use a vehicle in Singapore for an initial period of 10 years.
Currently, the ministry commissions and regulates four individual government statutory boards: the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS), the Land Transport Authority (LTA), the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) and the Public Transport Council (PTC), which implement the ministry’s policies and tactical directions.
LTA is responsible for the development of the rapid transit system and the expansion of the rail network. It aims to double the rail network by 2030. Since 2008, LTA has increased the length of Singapore's rail network from 138 km to about 180 km with the opening of the Boon Lay Extension in 2009, the Circle Line from 2009 to 2011 and the ...
The Pan Island Expressway, one of the main expressways in the Singapore road network. In Singapore, cars and other vehicles drive on the left side of the road, as in neighbouring Malaysia, due to its British colonial history (which led to British driving rules being adopted in India, Australia, New Zealand, and Hong Kong as well). As a result ...
A driving licence in Singapore is required before a person is allowed to drive a motor vehicle of any description on a road in the country. Like many other countries in the world, an individual must possess a valid driving licence before being permitted to drive on the road, and driving licence holders are subject to all traffic rules.
Singapore was the first city in the world to implement an electronic road toll collection system for purposes of congestion pricing. [6] Its use has inspired other cities around the world in adopting a similar system, particularly London 's Congestion Charge Zone (CCZ) , Stockholm 's congestion tax , [ 7 ] and New York City 's Central Business ...