LTA replaces old Emas signboards
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SINGAPORE - From Sept 16, the Land Transport Authority will start replacing 380 electronic signboards on the expressways that provide motorists with real-time information on traffic conditions. In addition, the LTA will also install 70 new signboards along four more arterial roads.
Get the full story from The Straits Times.Here is the full press release from LTA:
Improving real time traffic information for motorists
From Sept 16, 2013, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) will begin physical works to enhance existing electronic signboards along the expressways. LTA will also install 70 new electronic signboards along four more road corridors as part of the EMAS Arterial project.
Enhancing existing EMAS
LTA will replace the 380 existing EMAS electronic signboards island-wide with new electronic signboards. 13 new signboards will also be installed. The new signboards will allow for better capability and flexibility in displaying textual messages and simple graphics in up to seven colours (green, red, blue, cyan, purple, yellow and white). These enhancements will improve the readability of the messages and allow motorists to make better informed travel decisions through graphical representations.
The new EMAS signboards are part of the overall upgrading work for the entire EMAS along the expressways that LTA is undertaking. The entire enhancement project will be completed by 2017.
The new electronic signboards will be installed first along the Central Expressway (CTE), the East Coast Parkway (ECP) as well as along stretches of Bukit Timah Expressway (BKE) and Pan Island Expressway (PIE) near the Woodlands and Tuas Checkpoints. These first batch of signboards are expected to be completed and in operation by first half of 2014.
To ensure consistency for motorists, the new electronic signboards will continue to display text messages when installation works are ongoing. The full features of the enhanced signboards including both text and graphics will be used after all new signboards are installed along each expressway.
First launched in 1998, EMAS was installed to detect and manage incidents on expressways. Through a comprehensive system comprising live video surveillance, incident detection and real-time traffic alert functions, EMAS has been effective in helping the LTA to promptly respond and manage congestions arising from traffic incidents, such as vehicle breakdowns and accidents, on the expressways.
Extending EMAS arterial to 4 more road corridors
LTA will also install new electronic signboards, also known as EMAS Arterial Variable Message Signs (AVMS), to 4 arterial roads and provide motorists using these 4 roads with real time traffic information. The new AVMS are part of the project to extend the EMAS scheme to 10 arterial road corridors by 2014. Six road corridors have already been installed with AVMS in 2012.
A total of 70 new AVMS will be installed along the 4 road corridors from September 2013 onwards. These selected arterial road corridors are highly utilised by motorists and serve as alternative routes to the expressways.
The extension of the EMAS coverage to major arterial road corridors will bring about better information dissemination and, consequently, better traffic flow on the road network island-wide.
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See, they chor wu chor bo number 1....
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arbo, inside no job mah, you see, in every COE exercise, the profits generated from printing just a 1000 certificate is already 28 millions, more than enuf to buy Transcab Singapore Pte Ltd. And per month, 2 COEs exercises, per years 24 Coe bidding, change sign board only sup sup water to them lah
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wow. so proud meh? i see electronic traffic signboards in beijing/shanghai more advance leh. big big, plenty of details where jam....
BTW, the pic on top is sibeh old one liao lor....i never see such wordings before...
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y continue to waste $ after $.. ecp jam, will i use pie? all the so call info is just useless to me..
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Goberment tender project always can revise certain trade or certain company....
Ai mai? Let's go set up a signage company....
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mai lah, we TD also not familar with signage except middle finger sign, want to do, make a bigger business lah, lai lai, we go open a taxi company, register only $50, set up office at sungei kadut, we go korean busan look see look see as client, then choose a car, import in, start with 20 cars, then slowly slowly..bao jiak one