Transport

Title: An overview of Singapore’s key land transport policies: Optimising under constraints
Author: Lew, Y. D.
Publisher: Singapore: LTA Academy, Land Transport Authority, 2009.
Call no.: RSING 388.4095957 LEW
Provides an overview of the key policies that have shaped the land transport scene in Singapore over the past 30 to 40 years.

Title: Building Singapore's longest road tunnel: The KPE Story
Author: Cheong, C.
Publisher: Singapore: Published for the Land Transport Authority by SNP Editions, 2008.
Call no.: RSING 624.193095957 CHE
Profiles the people behind the project, and highlights the challenges they faced in constructing the longest underground expressway in Southeast Asia.

Title: Getting there: The story of the North East Line
Author: Leong, C. T.
Publisher: Singapore: Land Transport Authority, 2003.
Call no.: RSING 625.4095957 LEO
This is a detailed documentation of the construction and completion of the North East Line, one of Singapore’s largest transportation infrastructure projects.

Title: How do we ensure a liveable city?
Publisher: Singapore: Land Transport Authority, 2008.
Call no.: RSING 388.4095957 HOW
A layman’s guide to the Land Transport Masterplan which envisions a people-centred land transport system.

 

Title: LT Masterplan: A people-centred land transport system
Publisher: Singapore: Land Transport Authority, 2008.
Call no.: RSING 388.4095957 SIN
Developed following consultations with the public and stakeholders, the masterplan outlines the vision, strategy and plans for the land transport system in Singapore.

 

Title: The Circle Line: Linking all lines
Author: Cheong, C.
Publisher: Singapore: Straits Times Press, 2012
Call no.: RSING 388. 42095957 CHE
The Circle Line has added some 33km to Singapore's MRT network and it was one of the most challenging infrastructure projects in Singapore's history.

Title: The journey: Singapore’s land transport story
Author: Sharp, I.
Publisher: Singapore: SNP Editions, 2005.
Call no.: RSING q388.4095957 SHA
Traces the entire transport system in Singapore from road to rail – past, present and future.

Title: The land transport of Singapore: From early times to the present
Publisher: Singapore: Published for Archives and Oral History Department by Educational Publications Bureau, 1984.
Call no.: RSING 779.9388095957 LAN
Traces the history of land transportation in Singapore. The various modes of transportation through the ages, such as jinrickshaws, bullock-carts, trams and trishaws, are described in detail.

Title: Where lions fly: 100 years of aviation in Singapore (1911–2011)
Author: Goh, Y. K.
Publisher: Singapore: Straits Times Press Reference, 2012.
Call no.: RSING 387.7095957 GOH
Traces the technological developments in aviation and their economic and social impact on Singapore. This is also the first book to undertake the monumental task of collating all the trials and thrills of Singapore's aviation history

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