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.

Increase of public transport fare

Here are some research that i found about the increase of public transport fare, 

starting from April 6, adult fares for buses and trains are set to increase by four to 20 cents, announced the Public Transport Council (PTC) this afternoon (Jan 16). Those paying by cash will pay more, with fares set to rise by 20 cents per trip.

Stressing that the “issue of affordability has always been a priority” for the council when considering fare hikes, PTC chairman Gerard Ee said: “Clearly, 6.6 per cent in one go is very high, and so, to minimise the impact on commuters, it was quite obvious to us that we should just do part of the increase this year, and roll-over the rest, as provided for under the new “roll-over” mechanism as recommended in the FRMC report.”

Heeding a call from Transport Minister Lui Tuck Yew to not grant any fare increase that exceeds the last year’s average national wage increase, Mr Ee also said that the 3.2 per cent increase is “significantly lower” than the expected four to five per cent increase in average national wage last year.

He said: “We don’t have the full year’s data, but it is about 4.1 per cent increase based on January to September data, and likely to be close to five per cent for the full-year because of generally better year-end bonuses for 2013 compared to 2012.”

The little increase of public transport fare in a way would help provide better public transportation facility for citizens, with the purpose of maximizing the use of public transportation, instead of private transportation

effect

now, let's move to the effect of too many vehicles, which are pollution through the air and sound, traffic usually in the main road, and high percentage of accident mostly in highway because it only requires cars with acceptable high speed.

The cause of too many vehicles

These past view days, i have been asking some of my housemate about what do they know about the cause of too many vehicles, and from the answers i conclude that generally to them, the cause of too many vehicles in the road all over the world are because the number of private vehicles increase as the population increased, the import of vehicles increase year to year, capable people increased every year depends on the economic situation, public transportation not feasible, and people easy to get driving license except in Singapore.

case study part2

refer to the previous post, this is another information that i get about beijing. imagine there are over 3million cars and 18million people using the roads, this crowd really shows how Beijing is. Existing transport facilities are already unable to deal with the increasing traffic pressure. In recent years, traffic jams on major Beijing roads have been getting more and more frequent. Traffic pressure in Beijing is one big headache for its residents and city planners. Through the press conference. Quan Yongshen, Director of Beijing Municipal communications research center said the provision of public transportation facilities must be accelerated. This is few ways how government tried to solve the problem of too many vehicles in Beijing. An efficient road network is built connecting 10 new towns which located around the city, and there are another 15 arteries will link the central area and expressways. By the last 2006, subway lines extend from the current 53km to 128km, and the 98km-lonh 5th ring road opennes for traffic. Its completion will definitely help relieve traffic preasure in the city center of Beijing.

Case study

almost all of the country have one biggest problem, which is too many vehicles, and it leads to a traffic congeation. though beijing is not as big as the other country, but still beijing take the same role on this case. This things happened in Beijing, by the end of 2010 the beijing government realized that there wasn't enough airface area in the city to sustain close to a million new cars year-after-year. So they start by limitting the number of new license plates using a lottery system. The city also lowered the cost to ride a subway and committed to doubling the length of its 15-line subway network. 

Emphatizing

As you know that nowadays traffic jam has become the main problem in most of developed and developing countries, too many vehicles on road each days are one of the main reason. Thus, causing the resilience in citizens to drive daily, which leads to the rising need of public transportation. Taxis, are one of those much needed public transportation. I imagine myself as a taxi driver that i use car everyday as it is a part of my job needs. My job might actually worsen the traffic. However, it also has a role in lessening traffic jams if citizens choose to ride public transportations together instead of using their personal vehicles that can also causing a pollution beside the traffic.  That way, the number of vehicles that causes traffic jam and pollution will be diminished. In conclusion, better we use public transportation as long as it is still possible like if we are planning to drive to some near place, therefore we can reduce the number of vehicles in road and minimize the traffic.

too many vehicles

well, last two weeks was my first day of design process class. we were divided into some groups, each group consist of 3 members. we were given some topics. After took a lil' bit time, we chose one topic which is 'too many vehicles'.

as i did some research on this topic, actually i really found a lot of differences between Singapore and my country, Indonesia. for an instance, Singapore is a small country rather than Indonesia. I found that the price of vehicles are much more expensive than Indonesia, actually the vehicles in Singapore are not as much as its in Indonesia but the space here also way much smaller, that's the thing that makes the road looks crowded and caused traffic jam, and in some condition there're also some people that need to use vehicles as their job needs. But these things do not occur in the other country, because the traffic jam really caused by too many vehicles in road each days.