Number of vehicles: cars 286,756 (1990), trucks and buses 127,000 (1990)
Road information: total: 3,066 km; paved: 3,066 km (including 150 km of expressways); unpaved: 0 km (1999)
In Singapore, number plates are issued by the Land Transport Authority.
Car registrations on official vehicles follow the format
SYY 9999 Z, where S denotes a private vehicle, YY is
an alphabetical series, 9999 a numerical series, and
Z is a checksum letter.
Private number plates were first issued in Singapore in the early 1900s.
The government of Singapore adopted the policy of using
no vowels in the middle letter of the opening sequence
in order to avoid potentially offensive combinations
such as SEX.
A personalised number plates system is expected to be introduced in
Singapore in late 2007 and it is expected that the
current 8-character system will be extended to a 12-character
one. Number plates which happen to have significant
digits and numbers have been achieving great prices
through private sales already.
