New Registration of Motor Vehicles under Vehicle Quota System (VQS)

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Data from Jan 2005 to Dec 2017Updated 11 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.

ETS stands for Early Turnover Scheme. 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

MVP02-1 (New Reg by COE)

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NewRegistrationofMotorVehiclesunderVehicleQuotaSystemVQS.csv (91 rows, 2.1 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Category Text	Number Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2005	Category A	68468
2005	Category B	40699
2005	Category C	14821
2005	Category C-ETS	0
2005	Category D	12146
2005	Taxis	7894
2005	Vehicles Exempted From VQS	1030
2006	Category A	70814
2006	Category B	46035
2006	Category C	14148

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Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Category	category	Text	-	-
Number	number	Numeric	No. of New Registrations	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_f52d6995ea85ad8d5088906d7a24d5df"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

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Land Transport Authority. (2016). New Registration of Motor Vehicles under Vehicle Quota System (VQS) (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved April 26, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_f52d6995ea85ad8d5088906d7a24d5df/view

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NewRegistrationofMotorVehiclesunderVehicleQuotaSystemVQS.csv (91 rows, 2.1 KB)

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