Singapore's Experience with Car Quotas: Issues and Policy Processes

• Main Authors: Phang, Sock-Yong, Wong, Wing-Keung, Chia, Ngee-Choon
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 1996
• Subjects: Singapore; car ownership policies; motor vehicle quotas; Asian Studies; Economics; Public Economics; Transportation
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/429; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/1428/viewcontent/PII__S0967_070X_96_00025_X.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

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...