Thursday, February 27, 2020

The programme for 2nd working session

(Venue: Conference room #03-09, Bukit Batok Community Club. Date: Sat 29th Feb, 2020 Time : starting at 10am)

Last week we discussed flexible bollards and also carrying out trials to monitor results. This coming session we invite the Tysentech to bring us through their flexible bollards solutions and Trakomatic, an AI monitoring system that could assist in monitoring results. 

1. Introduction of new working members,Tysentech and Trakomatic
2. Presentation by David Lee and Soe Thandar,  Tysentech – Flexible Bollard, and other solutions.
3. Presentation by Andre, Trakomatic
4. Break up for the working session
5.    Other matters



      Due to the amount of technical work and design work we had crowd-sourced more volunteers and would like to introduce them here. 

New Working Member:

Ng Wei Liang
Presently serving National Service
Sean Ow Jou Chern
Presently serving National Service
Zhu Shengyiyu
Presently serving National Service




Saturday, February 22, 2020

Working Session 1 - 2020-02-22


We had a walk around, discussed and pick some areas to test out some ideas.
We concluded that we will follow up with the following and discuss in the next working session to be lead by Prof Tay Kheng Soon. Venue: Conference room #03-09, Bukit Batok Community Club. Date: Sat 29th Feb, 2020 Time : starting at 10am
  1. Look into flexible bollards selection: Flexible, One meter high, Lights or luminous 
  2. Check on the handicapped wheelchair: to determine the with of common wheel chair.
  3. Selected 4 initial points to take a look at possible solutions
  4. Location 01 : Merging lane https://www.google.com/maps/@1.349706,103.7478651,3a,75y,238.18h,78.74t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sSU7Rt7IeqeTzayhleSV6MA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 
  5. Location 02 : Traffice junction : https://www.google.com/maps/@1.3483255,103.7486801,3a,75y,302.21h,85.4t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1spYBEvVNgfSNWgfWfyxo6bA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
  6. Location 03: Trees and lamp post : https://www.google.com/maps/@1.3482624,103.7486333,3a,75y,255.36h,81.03t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sw4m9-rshIyiZyCs5a9c9-Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 
  7. Location 04: Pedestrian and PMD shared lane https://www.google.com/maps/@1.3493025,103.7482659,3a,75y,110.75h,87.09t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sKQGdZE_DOBHZEigwT6p88g!2e0!7i16384!8i8192




Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Re-thinking of PMD and last mile transportation

A volunteering working group to re-think the last Mile transportation. The working session will be lead by Prof Tay Kheng Soon. Venue: Conference room #03-09, Bukit Batok Community Club. Date: Sat 22nd 2020. Time: 10am. Contact point Choo Meng Foo: 98150357.

Participants:
  1. Bring your laptops, mouse, and application
  2. Journal, writing papers and pens
  3. Be prepared to draw
  4. Extension cord if you have

For a start, we will do a pilot for the Bukit Batok Central road to achieve the following:
  1. Build kits of parts for resolving PMD, vehicular and pedestrian conflict.
  2. Determine the different scenarios.
  3. Contribute and build participatory spirit as a knowledge citizen towards a smart nation 
Tools use are as follows,
  1. GIS maps digital and printed medium provided by LTA
  2. QGIS application
  3. Google Maps.
  4. CAD program
  5. Sketchup
Google Map link:
  1. Bukit Batok Central https://goo.gl/maps/3pk9t9Zcseg1YHrY6 
  2. Point 1 https://goo.gl/maps/47baNeW1kaDDTTzo7 
  3. Point 2 https://goo.gl/maps/kqH3J4CufRERfAeN8
  4. Point 3 https://goo.gl/maps/t5ycYDJtk4ieDWc38
  5. Point 4 https://goo.gl/maps/NKvLJyi73jT6rMwH6 
  6. Point 5 https://goo.gl/maps/MAuk3tf5fecBABik9
  7. Point 6 https://goo.gl/maps/XkDakeuHQdkkEYTn8
  8. Point 7 https://goo.gl/maps/qqMR5ViWGJGqozgV9



PMD (Personal Mobility Device) has been a huge topic recently. As the world focus on delivering last-mile transportation especially when the population is aging.




About Bukit Batok Constituent :
  1. Manifesto : https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/murali-unveils-manifesto-bukit-batok-election
  2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bukit_Batok
  3. Use of the OneMap to get the boundary of roads and also planning and constituents boundary. https://www.onemap.sg/main/v2/mapstyles 

Local information on PMD:
  1. Rules of Conduct as published by LTA (Land Transport Authority)   https://www.lta.gov.sg/content/ltagov/en/getting_around/active_mobility/rules_and_public_education/rules_and_code_of_conduct.html 
  2. The news report from CNA (Channel News Asia) https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/e-scooter-ban-footpaths-extend-motorised-pmd-active-mobility-mot-12237050
Here are some informative links: