Overview

Motivation

We decided to analyse the TEL as it a infrastructure project that involves the significant use of public resources which should be scrutinized.

Project Objective

The Thomson-East Coast Line (TEL) aims to bring residents living along the east and North-South Corridor closer to a train station, increasing their accessibility to the city.

The TEL Stage 4 is expected to open in 2023 with seven stations along East Cost Park - Tanjong Rhu, Katong Park, Tanjong Katong, Marine Parade, Marine Terrace, Siglap and Bayshore.

We conducted a catchment area study of TEL Stage 4, using the shortest network distance approach to study the area within 500 meters of each station. Such findings may be used to evaluate the cost-benefit analysis of the TEL Stage 4.

Data

For the purpose of this project, we retrieved data from the following sources:

  • The co-ordinates of the TEL Stage 4 train stations via GeoHack.
  • OSM (Geofabrik).
  • Population data from SingStat.
  • Bus Stop co-ordinates from LTA DataMall.

Scope of Work

This project consisted of, but not limited to, the following steps:

  • Data collection, extraction, integration, transformation and wrangling.

  • Examining the research on network and catchement analysis.

  • Performing network analysis of the train stations.

  • Preparing project report.

  • Preparing project poster.

  • Preparing project webpage.

Project Schedule

Here is the Gantt chart of our project:

G2T6 Gantt Chart

Project Poster and GeoWebsite.

Our project poster can be accessed using this link. Additionally, a Geo Web version of our analysis is accessible through this link.