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Transport

Motor Vehicle Population under Vehicle Quota System

Data from Jan 2014 to Feb 2018

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 15:09 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. 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

M01-MVP By Quota

No of vehicles by Month

Data explorer

MotorVehiclePopulationunderVehicleQuotaSystem.csv (300 rows, 8.1 KB)

Month
Month (YYYY-MM)
Category
Text
No. of Vehicles
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
2014-01Category A341519
2014-01Category B279902
2014-01Category C154144
2014-01Category D144631
2014-01Taxis27779
2014-01Vehicles Exempted From VQS26520
2014-02Category A341169
2014-02Category B280081
2014-02Category C153906
2014-02Category D144692

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
MonthmonthMonth (YYYY-MM)--
CategorycategoryText--
No. of VehiclesnumberNumericNo. of Vehicles-
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_f8876e8c0959ba5bcfa2c40cf6d25dab"
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 Population under Vehicle Quota System (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved June 27, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_f8876e8c0959ba5bcfa2c40cf6d25dab/view

About this dataset

Contact

lta-data_mgmt_office@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)