Implications of Singapore's Congestion Pricing Policy for China's Transportation Governance

Abstract

With the advent of the post-epidemic era, traffic congestion in urbanized areas around the world is showing a serious trend. China, as the world's largest developing country, faces serious traffic problems during urbanization. In contrast, Singapore, as one of the Asian countries, has successfully implemented a series of traffic management policies, including congestion pricing. The main theme of this paper is to study the inspiration of Singapore's congestion pricing policy on China's transportation governance. This paper mainly analyzes the reasons for the success of Singapore's congestion pricing policy. At the same time, according to the current situation of traffic congestion in China and related research results, it summarizes the three aspects of congestion pricing in China to implement the proposal. First, congestion pricing policies should be implemented in parallel with other means of transportation management. Secondly, the congestion charging policy should be flexibly adjusted in the light of urban conditions. Finally, the congestion charging policy should focus on publicity and recognition by the public. Through this study, it is hoped that it can provide the right direction guidance and reference suggestions when the Chinese government considers the implementation of congestion pricing and similar policies in the future, and it is hoped to come up with more comprehensive and universal reference suggestions if further studies are conducted.