LTA To Extend EMAS Capabilities To 10 Major Arterial Roads
1. The Land Transport Authority (LTA)
will extend the capabilities of its intelligent incident management system,
namely the Expressway Monitoring Advisory System (EMAS), to ten major arterial
roads in phases over the next four years.
2. Started since 2001, the EMAS has
been effective in ensuring that LTA responds to incidents quickly and clears the
obstructions on roads expeditiously, so that traffic returns back to normal as
quickly as possible.
3. An earlier study on the
effectiveness of EMAS concluded that with the implementation of EMAS, there has
been an average time savings of 24 minutes per incident. With shorter delays on
our expressways, this translates to cost savings of about $40 million per year.
Given its effectiveness and following positive feedback from motorists, the LTA
will be extending the service to major arterial roads .
4. The LTA will be calling for tenders
soon.The first phase of the extension, which will be along the Woodlands
Road-Upper Bukit Timah Road-Bukit Timah Road-Dunearn Road corridor, is expected
to be in place by 2010. Please refer to Annex
A for the other major arterial roads that EMAS will extended to. These roads
are selected because they are highly utilised by motorists and serve as
alternate routes to the expressways they run parallel to.
A More Pleasant Motoring Experience
5. With the expansion of EMAS coverage to major arterial
roads, motorists can look to a more pleasant, efficient aneasant, efficient and safer journey.
Equipped with information of traffic conditions on both expressways and their
nearby arterial roads, motorists can better plan their travel to avoid congested
and incident areas, thereby saving commuting time.
6. "We have received positive feedback from motorists on the effectiveness of EMAS on the expressways. The introduction of EMAS to arterial roads is a natural extension of an effective system and is in line with the our strategy to harness technology to optimise the use of our road network," said Mr Yam Ah Mee, Chief Executive, Land Transport Authority.
How EMAS Works
7. Like its expressways predecessor, EMAS on arterial
roads will perform live-video surveillance, incident detection and real-time
traffic alert functions.
8. Incidents on these roads will be
picked up and verified by sensors and cameras installed throughout the
corridors. Vehicle recovery services will then be dispatched to clear the
incidents and control traffic. Whenever necessary, the Singapore Civil Defence
Force and Traffic Police will be activated to provide appropriate assistance to
affected motorists. The improved response time will reduce congestion and
promote smoother traffic on the road networks.
9. Please refer to Annex B on how EMAS works.
Bt Timah? Every morning jam one LOL