final presentation

as like what i have mentioned before, for the final idea we combined 3-in-1 method and increase the minimum age of too many vehicles. These solutions were found as the best ideas that can be applied in Singapore and we hope that these solutions can lessening the too many vehicles' problem. The pictures below are end of the end final solutions.

less than 3 people in one car

more than 3 people

final design

Finally, my group come out with the final sollution, after changing some of it. This two pictures below are the combination from two ideas, which are:

3-in-1 method

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increasing the minimum age of driving license become 19yo

What is 3-in-1 method?

Maybe some of us may not know what is 3-in-1 method, and keep asking about it. Basically 3-in-1 is a method which means there should be minimum 3 person in one car, in some 3-in-1 areas and in a certain period of time. some of people keep asking will this method reduce too many vehicles? It is a big yes, this method will effectively reduce too many vehicles on road if the government does it strictly, jockey is not allowed in Singapore. how about sport car? a good question has been asked by some of my friends, our final solution is actually a combination of 3-in-1 method and increasing the minimum age of driving license. we use a scanner and a detector, we put the scanner on the dashboard of the car. for everyone that buy a sport car, they should register their scanner, so every time they pass 3-in-1 area the minimum people will change into 2 people.

Ideas for final design

After 101 solutions has been listed, it came out with 3 different ideas to be developed as the final solution to reduce the too many vehicle's problem.

But then, after doing some discussion, the 3 ideas above were cut down into 2 ideas, which are 3-in-1 method and increasing the minimum age of driving license become 19 years old, these two combination were found as the best ideas that can be applied in Singapore.

Singapore's Road Transport Market Price

In order to reduce the number of transportation vehicles in the road,  Singapore creates sky-high market prices in road transport. Singapore’s Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) itself involves demand-responsive prices for every gantry and for every half-hour period of the day. They are not deman-responsive in real time but are revised every few months, based on average traffic speeds. In addition, there is a quota for new vehicle registrations under the Vehicle Quota System (VQS). This creates a market for the right to buy a car via on-line auctions for ‘Certificates of Entitlement’ (COEs).The current COE price for a small car is S$29,000. The COE price changes twice every month. This is added on top of the market price and to all of the other taxes, such as the 110% Additional Registration Fee. All these are ochestrated as means to drop the number of private road transports in Singapore and increase the use of public transports. Thus, creating a traffic jam-free and hassle-free Singapore roads.

Brainstorming

For the class activities, we were given a task to make a brainstorming, which at least 101 ideas about how to solve our problem, and this is my group's 101 ideas:

Taxi driver as persona

Past few weeks, as my teacher asked us to put ourselves on someone else's shoes. As it's written in the group's report, it is decided that the persona chosen will be the taxi driver, because in my own opinion, taxi driver is different from the other job. Even though they all use vehicles and considered as creating more traffic jam, but in this case taxi drivers use vehicle as a part of their job needs, which is compulsory to make living, to support their life.