Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0967-070X(96)00025-X
Title: Singapore's experience with car quotas: Issues and policy processes
Authors: Phang, S.-Y. 
Wong, W.-K. 
Chia, N.-C. 
Keywords: Car ownership policies
Motor vehicle quotas
Singapore
Weekend cars
Issue Date: 1996
Citation: Phang, S.-Y.,Wong, W.-K.,Chia, N.-C. (1996). Singapore's experience with car quotas: Issues and policy processes. Transport Policy 3 (4) : 145-153. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0967-070X(96)00025-X
Abstract: This paper examines the policy processes behind Singapore's car quotas. The policy, when filtered through the market mechanism, had a number of unintended consequences. The public's unhappiness with certain features and 'loopholes' of the system resulted in many changes to the rules. The effects of recent measures to curb speculation on quota premiums are evaluated. Problems with Singapore's Weekend Car Scheme are also discussed. The lesson for transport policy makers elsewhere is that in attempting to deal with the road congestion problem through car ownership policies, an asset market for vehicles should be taken into account. Copyright © 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd.
Source Title: Transport Policy
URI: http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/21416
ISSN: 0967070X
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-070X(96)00025-X
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