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| Title: | Are Singapore's new towns self-contained? An examination based on post-COVID-19 public transport smart card data | Authors: | Hou, Y Zheng, J Wang, X He, SY |
Issue Date: | 2025 | Source: | In SY He (Ed.), Handbook on transport in Asia, p. 416-444. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2025 | Abstract: | Self-containment is a major planning objective for new town development. This study assesses the self-containment levels of Singapore’s new towns and planned centers by analyzing the geography of commuting and non-commuting passenger flows among selected regional centers, sub-regional centers and town centers. Specifically, we utilize the public transport smart card data from the Land Transport Authority – Singapore’s transit authority – in 2021-2022, and explore two sets of questions: 1) are the service sheds of new towns/planned centers for commuting and non-commuting travel purposes locally confined or city-wide? 2) how does the spatial extent of new towns’/centers’ service sheds vary by the regional-, sub-regional- and town-center ranks? The findings imply whether and to what extent the new towns/centers in Singapore are “self-contained” or economically interdependent with each other, and provide insights for Singapore’s future transport and land use planning. | Keywords: | Commuting trips New town Non-commuting trips Polycentricity Smartcard data Urban form |
Publisher: | Edward Elgar Publishing Limited | ISBN: | 978-1-0353-0923-8 (cased) 978-1-0353-0924-5 (eBook) 978-1-0353-8196-8 (ePub) |
DOI: | 10.4337/9781035309245.00028 | Rights: | © The Editor and the Contributing Authors Severally 2025. With the exception of any material published open access under a Creative Commons license (see www.elgaronline.com), all rights are reserved and no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical or photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. This is a draft chapter/article. The final version is available in Handbook on Transport in Asia edited by Sylvia Y. He, published in 2025, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035309245.00028 It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. |
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