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Transport

Motor Vehicle De-registration under Vehicle Quota System (VQS)

Data from Jan 2005 to Dec 2017

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:41 SGT

LTA (Land Transport Authority)

Figures include weekend/off peak cars and tax exempted vehicles.
Prior to Aug 2012, taxi operators can bid for a new COE or pay Prevailing Quota Premium (PQP) to register a taxi under Category A. The latter is only in the case of a new taxi that replaces a deregistered one within 6 months. From 6 Aug 2012 onwards, all taxis pay for COEs based on the PQP of Category A. *Includes vehicles de-registered and eventually placed under the Early Turnover Scheme (ETS). Between 24 Apr 2013 and 30 Apr 2016, vehicle owners can de-register their existing diesel-propelled Category C vehicles that were registered before 1 Jan 2001 and register a replacement vehicle within 1 month of de-registration by paying a discounted Prevailing Quota Premium (PQP) under the ETS. From 1 Aug 2015, the ETS was extended to existing diesel-propelled Category C vehicles that were registered between 1 Jan 2001 and 30 Sep 2006 and will be de-registered between 1 Aug 2015 and 31 Jul 2017.
Vehicles exempted from the VQS include scheduled and school buses, emergency vehicles, engineering plants primarily for off-the-road use, diplomatic vehicles and vehicles under the Disabled Person Scheme.
Cars registered with COEs obtained from the Feb 2014 1st bidding exercise onwards,

Category A: Cars up to 1600cc and 97kW.
Category B: Cars above 1600cc or 97kW.

Cars registered with COEs obtained before Feb 2014 bidding exercises,

Category A: Cars up to 1600cc.
Category B: Cars above 1600cc."

Figures may subject to changes as vehicle owners are given one month grace to revalidate their COEs upon deregistration.

MVP05-1 - COE Dereg

Annual Motor Vehicles De-registered by Vehicle Quota Categories

Data explorer

MotorVehicleDeregistrationunderVehicleQuotaSystemVQS.csv (78 rows, 1.8 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Category Text	Number of Vehicles Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2005	Category A	59217
2005	Category B	28859
2005	Category C	12977
2005	Category D	9670
2005	Taxis	5918
2005	Vehicles Exempted From VQS	820
2006	Category A	54110
2006	Category B	28701
2006	Category C	9102
2006	Category D	8212

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Category	category	Text	-	-
Number of Vehicles	number	Numeric	Number of Vehicles	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_6e50d957520951abb4083d2b2bd0ae90"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

Land Transport Authority. (2016). Motor Vehicle De-registration under Vehicle Quota System (VQS) (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved April 20, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_6e50d957520951abb4083d2b2bd0ae90/view

About this dataset

Contact

lta-data_mgmt_office@lta.gov.sg

Created on

28 Apr 2016

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

LTA (Land Transport Authority)