{"id":14759,"date":"2025-11-27T01:23:46","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T17:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=14759"},"modified":"2025-11-27T01:23:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T17:23:46","slug":"obus-to-alert-motorists-to-real-time-traffic-disruptions-from-nov-26-lta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=14759","title":{"rendered":"OBUs to alert motorists to real-time traffic disruptions from Nov 26: LTA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">SINGAPORE \u2013 Motorists can now get alerts on additional traffic information, including real-time traffic incidents along expressways and slip roads, through their Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) on-board units (OBUs).<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The update on the notifications, which <!-- -->start from Nov 26<!-- -->, was announced in a <!-- -->Land Transport Authority (LTA)<!-- --> Facebook post on the same day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">LTA said motorists will be notified about traffic disruptions such as accidents, vehicle breakdowns, road works, lane closures, congestions, plant pruning and watering, and road sweeping.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">These notifications will be progressively rolled out to cover more roads in the coming months, LTA said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The OBU replaces the in-vehicle unit as Singapore transitions to the next-generation ERP system, which uses global navigation satellite system technology.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Installation of the new OBUs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/transport\/next-gen-erp-on-board-units-to-be-installed-from-nov-motorists-can-opt-out-of-touchscreen-display?ref=inline-article&amp;ref=inline-article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular inline\" data-testid=\"paragraph-test-id\">began in November 2023.<\/p>\n<p><\/a> Since then, the LTA has been introducing new OBU features catered to motorists. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">These include providing information on carpark availability in key buildings, road closures and a function to temporarily suspend the OBU when drivers have complimentary parking coupons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">LTA intends to complete the <!-- -->installation exercise by 2026. It is slated to <!-- -->introduce features  through which users can pay for usage licences for off-peak cars, tolls at the Woodlands and Tuas checkpoints, and roadside parking.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"tags-test-id\">\n<p><button data-testid=\"button-test-id\" class=\"layer-one border-default border interactive-button text-primary disabled:layer-disabled hover:disabled:layer-disabled default\" aria-label=\"button for Traffic\/Road rules\"><span class=\"font-button-md-semibold\">Traffic\/Road rules<\/span><\/button><button data-testid=\"button-test-id\" class=\"layer-one border-default border interactive-button text-primary disabled:layer-disabled hover:disabled:layer-disabled default\" aria-label=\"button for LTA\"><span class=\"font-button-md-semibold\">LTA<\/span><\/button><button data-testid=\"button-test-id\" class=\"layer-one border-default border interactive-button text-primary disabled:layer-disabled hover:disabled:layer-disabled default\" aria-label=\"button for Cars\"><span class=\"font-button-md-semibold\">Cars<\/span><\/button><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/obus-to-alert-motorists-to-real-time-traffic-disruptions-from-nov-26-lta\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE \u2013 Motorists can now get alerts on additional traffic information, including real-time traffic incidents along expressways and slip roads, through their Electronic Road Pricing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}