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Annual Motor Vehicle Population by Vehicle Quota Categories

Data from Jan 2005 to Dec 2017Updated 7 months ago

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.

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

Category C & D refers to: Category C: Goods Vehicles &Buses Category D: Motorcycles

MVP 01-02 - COE Veh Pop

No of vehicles by Year

Data explorer

AnnualMotorVehiclePopulationbyVehicleQuotaCategories.csv (78 rows, 1.9 KB)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Category
Text
No. of Vehicles
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
2005Category A267872
2005Category B170449
2005Category C135633
2005Category D138662
2005Taxis22383
2005Vehicles Exempted From VQS19993
2006Category A284551
2006Category B187776
2006Category C140646
2006Category D141950

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
YearyearYear (YYYY)--
CategorycategoryText--
No. of VehiclesnumberNumericNo. of Vehicles-
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_cc30f50369bcd6b6f848a586bded2290"
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). Annual Motor Vehicle Population by Vehicle Quota Categories (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved January 15, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_cc30f50369bcd6b6f848a586bded2290/view

About this dataset

Contact

LTA-Vehicle_Stat@lta.gov.sg

Created on

12 Apr 2016

Licence

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

Agency

LTA (Land Transport Authority)

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