App with weather and route guidance for cyclists among youth proposals to improve S’pore transport
It is part of an initiative for youth to work with government agencies to improve Singapore.
Singaporean Radhakrishnan Srivarshini, 24, prefers cycling on segregated paths, but often encounters issues with apps like Google Maps that divert her to busy roads and do not warn about bad weather. Recognizing this gap, she and four other young individuals proposed Gear Up, an application to address cyclists' challenges as Singapore aims to become a car-lite society.
Gear Up was among seven ideas presented to the Minister of State for Transport, Culture, Community, and Youth, Baey Yam Keng, on September 26 at the Asian Civilisations Museum. The teams, consisting of young people aged 17 to 33, spent over three months developing their proposals as part of the Youth Panel for Transport, the first of four panels aimed at collaborating with government agencies to develop recommendations for a better Singapore.
Srivarshini highlighted that no existing app caters to the diverse range of cyclists in Singapore. The group identified six different cyclist profiles, including food delivery riders, leisure cyclists, and road cyclists. They proposed a unified cycling app with features such as bicycle-friendly routing, weather overlays, route preferences, parking availability, obstruction alerts, dynamic rerouting, and user feedback.
The group hopes the app or some of its features will be incorporated into MyTransport.SG, a government app for public transport commuters. Other proposals focused on inclusivity, such as helping seniors travel confidently with shared community personal mobility aids, and improving wayfinding and transit space design for people with diverse needs.
Baey Yam Keng noted that the issues raised align with sentiments heard through broader engagements for the Land Transport Master Plan (LTMP) Refresh, a national initiative to update Singapore's land transport roadmap, which is expected to be released in 2027.
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