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New mobility concepts can solve South-east Asia’s traffic woes

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Published Sat, Jun 25, 2022 · 05:50 AM
    • Carpooling apps such as Singapore’s Ryde allow private car owners to offer empty seats to fellow travellers.
    • Carpooling apps such as Singapore’s Ryde allow private car owners to offer empty seats to fellow travellers. Ong Wee Jin/ST

    Yuma Ito

    AMONG the most unique reminders of the global pandemic of 2020 and 2021 were images of peacefully empty traffic arteries in cities around the region and across the world.

    A notorious problem over decades, vehicle congestion and pollution intensified in South-east Asia's metropolitan areas with increased economic intensity.

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