Test Results - Traffic Flow Management SEQ

All essays have been graded.

The following 2 pupils achieved a perfect score of 12/12
1. KHOO LI TING JOESEPHINE
2. KOH YI FANG YVONNE

11/12
3. WONG TSE QI HILLARY
4. MUHAMMAD HAIQAL

Areas for improvement
1. Explanation of Park and Ride and how it reduces traffic flow could be better in some cases. Those of you who scored 6/12 marks were those got the 2 other factors explained well but did not explain the given factor of Park and Ride well. This was the part of the explanation for park and ride which these pupils could have written:

Answer: As these drivers take public transport such as the MRT or buses into the CDB, the roads leading to and from the CBD will be less congested. Public transport like MRT trains and buses take up less or even no space or roads as compared to the large amount of road space that is taken up by the number of cars needed to transport an equivalent number of people into and out of the CDB.

Note: The comparison of the space on the roads taken up by public transport vs the number of cars that would be needed to ferry the same number of people had to be made clear. It is not just that public transport can transport more people than a single car.

On the other hand, some of you made very good explanations and were credited for it.

2. A number of pupils for the Park and Ride essay, discussed the historical impact of park and ride and that in was initially unsuccessful and thus used this to explain that it was ineffective. I accepted this answer as an explanation BUT you needed to also explain how Park and Ride works today and how it is now quite well accepted by the public and thus how it helps to effectively manage traffic flow problems in and around the CBD.
3. Some of you are still not defining the weighing word "effective" and ended up being unable to make your arguement clear. Room for improvement for these pupils.
4. For the explanation for VQS, pupils who did not score on this factor were unclear about how VQS works. essentially VQS has 4 parts:
- COE issuing and hence the ability to control COE issuing
- Scrapping of cars after 10 years - this also reduces car population and controls its growth
- bidding and costly nature of COEs - deters potential drivers from buying a car or owning too many cars since COEs add to the cost of owning a car.
- By limiting the number of COEs and issuing fewer COEs than cars scrapped, the government can directly reduce the car population at will if there was a need to do so, thereby effectively reducing car population throughout Singapore and hence cutting down on congestion.

Again, some of you did very well in your explanation.