A data-driven approach helps Lynette Cheah to tackle concerns about self-driving buses and delivery-truck congestion.
Singapore houses 5.5 million people in an area less than half the size of London and is the second most densely populated country in the world, after Monaco. In 2014, it pledged to put digital innovation and technology at the heart of its society, economy and government.
The city state also hosts a number of green spaces, including 18 giant ‘supertrees’ — vertical gardens that generate solar power and collect rainwater. Today, Cheah is an engineering systems researcher at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, which partners with the IMD on its Smart City Index. Her focus is on sustainable urban mobility, and particularly on the use of data-driven models and tools to study freight transport and its impact on traffic flow.
But smart cities are about more than transportation. In health care, for example, they’re about national databases such as vaccine records. These can be accessed through an app offered by the Government Technology Agency, the department in charge of digital government services. Citizens can use the Singpass app to access various government services and keep track of their medical records. These are alongside the tools that emerged as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, such as contact tracing.
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