Building a Sustainable Transportation: What SMRT and LTA Are Doing
Urban transport systems often involve significant environmental effects that are harmful on various scales. Transport is one of the primary contributors to emissions, noise pollution, and climate change. Some of the ways to reduce the environmental impact of transport systems involve increasing the supply of public transport networks, encouraging the use of public transit through incentives, designing new transit routes that are more sustainable, and upgrading old ones. Singapore has been held up as an exemplar of a sustainable urban transport system. To tackle growing transport demands and changing consumer preferences, Singapore is growing its urban transport system in a sustainable manner. The Land Transport Authority (LTA) spearheads land transport developments in Singapore. In the last few years, LTA has launched several initiatives to integrate a greener and more inclusive public transport system complemented by walks and cycle options. LTA is working with public transport oper