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Retail Precinct Management: A Case of Commercial Decentralization in Singapore

Author(s) -

Robert de Souza,

Hoong Chuin Lau,

Mark Goh,

Lindawati Lindawati,

Wee Siong Ng,

Puay Siew Tan

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

transportation research procedia

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.657

H-Index - 40

eISSN - 2352-1465

pISSN - 2352-1457

DOI - 10.1016/j.trpro.2016.02.030

Subject(s) - precinct , decentralization , business , central business district , transport engineering , environmental planning , engineering , economics , geography , archaeology , market economy

This paper reviews the logistics challenges of a decentralization strategy in Singapore. The main purpose of an urban decentralization, where the commercial hubs and retail clusters are distributed in several regional centers is to relieve congestion from the city center and to move business closer to home. However, this approach can also create congestion in regional centers due to the rapid flow of public, private and freight vehicles in and out of regional centers. This paper identifies three major challenges and proposes Retail Precinct Management (RPM) which consists of four inter-related components to overcome these challenges

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