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Quarterly Registration, De-Registration of Motor Vehicles

Quarterly New Registration of Vehicle Population

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Quarterly New Registration of Vehicle Population

Data from Jan 2016 to Dec 2020

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 15:09 SGT

LTA (Land Transport Authority)

Vehicle types are subjected to changes in usage, licensing and ownership status. M06B-Vehs by type

No of vehicles by Period

Data explorer

QuarterlyNewRegistrationofVehiclePopulation.csv (412 rows, 19.6 KB)

Period Quarter (Q)	Category Text	Vehicle Type Text	No. of Vehicles Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2016-Q1	Cars and Station-wagons	Private	17188
2016-Q1	Cars and Station-wagons	Company	838
2016-Q1	Cars and Station-wagons	Tuition	18
2016-Q1	Cars and Station-wagons	Private Hire (Rental)	1309
2016-Q1	Cars and Station-wagons	Off peak/Weekend cars	450
2016-Q1	Taxis	Taxis	811
2016-Q1	Motorcycles and Scooters	Motorcycles and Scooters	1922
2016-Q1	Goods and Other Vehicles	Goods-cum-passengers	29
2016-Q1	Goods and Other Vehicles	LGVs ( mlw <= 3.5 mt)	2753
2016-Q1	Goods and Other Vehicles	HGVs ( mlw >3.5 - 16 mt)	1106

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Period	period	Quarter (Q)	-	-
Category	category	Text	-	-
Vehicle Type	type	Text	-	-
No. of Vehicles	cumulative_number	Numeric	No. of Vehicles	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_f8408eaf8ecf45adae760a035b8d850d"
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). Quarterly New Registration of Vehicle Population (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 1, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_f8408eaf8ecf45adae760a035b8d850d/view

About this dataset

Contact

LTA-Vehicle_Stat@lta.gov.sg

Created on

27 Apr 2016

Licence

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

Agency

LTA (Land Transport Authority)