Sustainable transport contributes to low-carbon, resilient, healthy and liveable cities. The research team is interested in pathways towards sustainable mobility, particularly in congested urban environments. Our research focuses on developing data-driven models and tools to reduce the environmental impacts of passenger and freight transport.

Current projects

Past projects

Design principles for low-carbon transport infrastructure (2024-2025) 

A comprehensive review on design for low-carbon transport infrastructure from a lifecycle perspective was conducted, reporting the relative effectiveness of various design and alternative material options for road pavements. Partner: TMR 

Crowdshipping using public transport (2020-2024) 

Explored the potential to tap on excess passenger transport capacity to enable sustainable movement of freight. This work was featured in The Conversation. 

Life cycle assessment of diesel vs. electric vs. hydrogen fuel cell trucks (2020-2021) 

Real-world drive cycles observed in medium-size trucks were considered. 

Point of Interest (POI) data validation (2020-2021) 

This study reviewed different POI validation methods that evaluated data quality and identified a set of metrics that can be applied to different POI datasets. 

Designing for Adoption of Autonomous Mobility Services (2019-2020) 

Public acceptance of autonomous vehicles is a possible barrier to rolling out shared AVs. We examined the adoption and design considerations surrounding Autonomous Mobility Services in Singapore. Project partners: Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities (LKYCIC), SUTD-MIT International Design Centre (IDC) and Daimler. 

Urban Freight and Heavy Vehicles Study (2016-2019) 

Optimising urban freight transport is a complex socio-technical problem that concerns urban planning, transportation system planning, and infrastructure planning. We collected data and developed models to assess the traffic and environmental impacts of urban goods movement. Partners: Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology Future of Urban Mobility (SMART FM), and partner Singapore government agencies; Urban Redevelopment Authority(URA), Land Transport Authority (LTA) and JTC Corporation. 

Collaborative Urban Logistics (2015-2018) 

We evaluated collaborative urban logistics solutions targeting goods deliveries to retail malls, in particular  centralised goods receiving stations (in-mall distribution), and offsite freight consolidation centres. See data stories collected from retail mall loading bays here. Partner: Singapore IMDA. 

Foresight Study on Urban Mobility: Moving Singapore in 2040 (2014-2016) 

A study on the future of urban mobility and transportation in Singapore, including an integrated vision for the transport, community and work. One of a series of foresight studies at the Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities (LKYCIC), examining the Future of Cities. 

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