cameras and sensors at one of the two taxi queues at T3

• FireIce

  6 Jan 17, 14:20

  The Straits Times
  Friday, Jan 6, 2017

  Changi Airport has installed cameras and sensors at one of the two taxi queues at Terminal 3 to track the number of people in line and estimated waiting time for a cab.

  The aim is to eventually allow the airport to update commuters as well as work with taxi companies to ensure there are enough cabs. 

  The initiative is one of several being explored as part of a new $50 million, five-year programme to harness technology and innovation to help run the airport more efficiently and make journeys hassle-free for travellers.

  Launched jointly by Changi Airport Group and the Economic Development Board, the Changi Airport Living Lab Programme involves the airport working with innovation-driven companies and start-ups to develop and demonstrate new solutions in a live environment.

  Both parties sealed the co-operation by signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) at the airport yesterday.

• liewsc

  6 Jan 17, 22:05

  If $50mil goes to incentives for taxi drivers sure can get much better results..

• FireIce

  6 Jan 17, 23:37

  wat results?

  TDs just every time wait for $$ then no work?

• Pandanchen

  7 Jan 17, 05:23

  alot of taxi there every day

  why waste the money?

• bowah

  7 Jan 17, 08:29

  Originally posted by FireIce:

  wat results?

  TDs just every time wait for $$ then no work?

  
  Who dun wait for money, every weekend and mid week, never see Singapore Pool long Q ar??
• bowah

  7 Jan 17, 08:32

  Originally posted by Pandanchen:

  alot of taxi there every day

  why waste the money?

  
  No lah, this is inline with the opening of T4 and coming T5, from what I heard in their briefing is that, there will be no co-ordinators (those lau kok kok uncles and Malaysia ah neh ladies) marshaling the Terminals anymore.
• bowah

  7 Jan 17, 08:39

  The Q taxi infront will be allocated with a slot nos for the taxi in the first of the Q, he will then proceed to the slot and pick the paxs, Guides will only be for paxs inside the airport to guide the pax by pressing a slot nos, this nos will flash at the front of the first in Q, follow by the next. On the other hand, the knnccb few boards which had fooled many taxi driver including my brother ah fool, smlj T1 1 23...T2 4 2 and T3 300 3 will become more accurate so that taxi can go exactly where it need to be. So the new board, beside showing the 3 Ts nos of taxis and plane to be land, it will improve the plane to be land to change to Confirmed and landed plane, it will also have another line telling taxi drivers...eg..."taxis need at T3 urgently" will also can inform taxi driver at AP sending off pax at departure " taxis full at all Terminals, no need to Q, go out of AP"
• Pandanchen

  7 Jan 17, 08:51

  taxi Q is long like anaconda

  still spent this money

• FireIce

  8 Jan 17, 01:19

  precisely to prevent cabbies from waiting (and complaining no passengers)

• bowah

  10 Jan 17, 15:50

  Hello, you know that T3, and T1 now got cabbies resting place liao...can urine, take water and TCSS..T1 rooftop somemore, can view plane landing where...