Around 20,000 additional COEs to be available from February 2025

Around 20,000 additional COEs to be available from February 2025


AROUND 20,000 more Certificates of Entitlement (COEs) will be available from February 2025.

They will be progressively added across all vehicle categories “over the next few years”, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) said on Tuesday (Oct 29).

It did not say when the new COEs would be added, nor did it give the number of COEs that would be added to each vehicle category.

It said the injection of additional COEs was possible with reduced vehicle usage in Singapore, the expansion of public transport, and the improved ability to manage congestion through the continuing transition to the Electronic Road Pricing 2.0 (ERP 2.0) system.

Between 2019 and 2023, total vehicle mileage fell 6 per cent, even as accessibility to public transport rose.

The rail network expanded by 18 per cent to 270 km from 228 km in 2019. Further expansion of the network is expected to the North East Line, Thomson-East Coast Line, Downtown Line, Circle Line and the new Jurong Region Line.

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Meanwhile, the satellite technology-based ERP 2.0 system will improve the management of vehicle congestion, given that it can provide comprehensive aggregated traffic information.

Unlike the first-generation ERP, which uses physical gantries, ERP 2.0 relies on virtual gantries to enable more responsive congestion control, said LTA.

The authority also has the option of introducing distance-based charging in the future, which will be an additional tool for regulating vehicle usage and managing traffic congestion more responsively.

Since November 2023, around 150,000 new and existing vehicles have been fitted with the ERP 2.0 on-board unit; by the end of 2025, all vehicles will have these on-board units.

Despite the additional COEs, LTA said its long-term vision remains centred on making Singapore “car-lite”.

In Singapore, the COE system is used to control vehicle population, while ERP is used to manage vehicle usage.

COEs are needed to register a vehicle for use on Singapore roads. They come in five categories: Category A for mainstream cars; Category B for larger, more powerful cars; Category C for buses and commercial vehicles; Category D for motorcycles; and Category E, the open category.

The vehicle population growth rate for categories A, B and D will remain at zero. The commercial vehicle population growth rate has been set at 0.25 per cent a year from Feb 1, 2025, to Jan 31, 2028.

Because of the lack of allowed growth, vehicle deregistrations are the main source of COE supply. The total number of new registrations for passenger cars in 2023 was 30,225; in 2024, the figure is expected to be around 40,000.



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