What The U.S. Can Learn From Singapore

17 November 2001 - 8:00am

A combination of technology and tough government places the island nation on the cutting edge of traffic control.

"Singapore, that hyper-organized city-nation at the bottom of the Malay Peninsula, is a living laboratory for intelligent transport systems, a catch-all phrase for high tech strategies to gather data, manage flow, and inform drivers of congestion ahead." The advances manage to keep the delays during the daily commutes substantially less than American cities of comparable size..."But the Singapore miracle has less to do with technology than with bureaucracy."

Source: Wired, November 16, 2001
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