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How technology can help make urban transport work for people

A data-driven approach helps Lynette Cheah to tackle concerns about self-driving buses and delivery-truck congestion.
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  1. Andy Tay

    1. Andy Tay is a freelance writer in Singapore.

Singapore houses 5.5 million people in an area less than half the size of London and is the second most densely populated country in the world, after Monaco. In 2014, it pledged to put digital innovation and technology at the heart of its society, economy and government.

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Nature 608, S30-S31 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-02217-6

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

This article is part of Nature Spotlight: Smart cities, an editorially independent supplement. Advertisers have no influence over the content.

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