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