Bus Service Enhancement Programme

The Bus Service Enhancement Programme, or BSEP for short, was a programme from 2012 to 2017 that was launched on 7 March 2012 by the Land Transport Authority. Under this 7-year programme, the LTA set aside $1.1 billion for the overall cost of the scheme, and worked together with Public Transport Operators (PTOs) - SBS Transit and SMRT Buses - to purchase 1000 new buses, introduce 80 new bus routes and improve the frequency and reliability of many bus routes. This was conducted in two seperate phases, with the first phase from 2012 to 2014 and the second from 2015 to 2017, before the restructuring of Singapore's bus industry to the Bus Contracting Model (BCM).

The main initiatives of the programme included:

• Bus Service Improvements: In response to changing travel patterns, bus services were improved by introducing new services, extending existing routes, upgrading routes' capacites and improving frequencies. These included the introduction of City Direct Services (CDS) and Peak Period Short Services (PPSS), which were operated by Private Operators then.
• Purchase Of New Buses: With the two phases of the BSEP, a grand total of 1000 new public buses were introduced under the programme, expanding Singapore's public bus fleet by an immense amount. Bus models that were purchased included the Mercedes-Benz Citaro, MAN NL323F, Volvo B9TL WEG2 and Alexander Dennis Enviro500.
• Peak-Hour Bus Frequency Improvements: Under the BSEP, 95% of feeder bus services had their frequencies improved to operate at no more than 10-minute intervals during the morning and evening peak periods, which were adjusted to last 2 hours each. In addition, all regular bus services were required to operate within 20-minute scheduled intervals, of which 80% had to be within 10-minute intervals and another 10% within 12-minute intervals.

Rollout

No.				Date	Bus Service	Category
Overall	New Service	Route Extension	Route Amendment
1	1	N/A		21 Oct 2012		New Bus Service
2	N/A	1	N/A			Route Extension
3	2	N/A		18 Nov 2012		New Bus Service
4	3	N/A		16 Dec 2012
5	4	N/A		17 Dec 2012
6	5	N/A		18 Feb 2013
7	6	N/A		17 Mar 2013
8	7	N/A		18 Mar 2013
9	8	N/A		21 Apr 2013
10	9	N/A		9 Jun 2013
11	10	N/A
12	11	N/A		17 Jun 2013
13	12	N/A		18 Aug 2013
14	13	N/A		2 Sep 2013		City Direct Service
15	14	N/A		15 Nov 2013		New Bus Service
16	15	N/A		14 Dec 2013
17	16	N/A		06 Jan 2014		City Direct Service
18	17	N/A		13 Jan 2014
19	18	N/A		19 Jan 2014		New Bus Service
20	19	N/A		20 Jan 2014		City Direct Service
21	20	N/A		16 Feb 2014		New Bus Service
22	21	N/A		17 Feb 2014		City Direct Service
23	22	N/A
24	23	N/A		24 Feb 2014
25	24	N/A		16 Mar 2014		New Bus Service
N/A	25	N/A		14 Apr 2014	912P	Peak Period Short Service
N/A	26	N/A		22 Apr 2014	240P
N/A	27	N/A		29 Apr 2014	222P
N/A	28	N/A		6 May 2014	268P
N/A	29	N/A		18 May 2014		Supplementary Bus Service
26	30	N/A		19 May 2014		City Direct Service
27	N/A	2	N/A	8 Jun 2014		Route Extension
28	31	N/A		9 Jun 2014		City Direct Service
N/A	32	N/A		10 Jun 2014	358P	Peak Period Short Service
N/A	33	N/A			359P
29	34	N/A		23 Jun 2014		City Direct Service
N/A	35	N/A		24 Jun 2014	291P	Peak Period Short Service
N/A	36	N/A			293P
N/A	37	N/A		30 Jun 2014	307P
N/A				13 Jul 2014		Extension Of Operational Hours
30	38	N/A		17 Aug 2014		New Bus Service
N/A		3	N/A			Supplementary Bus Service
N/A	39	N/A
N/A		4	N/A	24 Aug 2014		Route Extension
31	40	N/A		12 Sept 2014		New Bus Service
N/A	41	N/A				Supplementary Bus Service
32	42	N/A		15 Nov 2014		New Bus Service
N/A				16 Nov 2014		Extension Of Operational Hours
N/A	43	N/A				Supplementary Bus Service
33	44	N/A		23 Nov 2014		New Bus Service
34	45	N/A		14 Dec 2014
35	46	N/A
36	N/A	5	N/A	15 Dec 2014		Route Extension
N/A	47	N/A				Supplementary Bus Service
N/A	48	N/A		30 Dec 2014	285P	Peak Period Short Service
N/A	49	N/A		6 Jan 2015	265P
N/A	50	N/A		13 Jan 2015	903P
N/A	51	N/A		20 Jan 2015	811P
N/A	52	N/A			812P
37	N/A	6	N/A	14 Feb 2015		Route Extension
38	53	N/A		15 Mar 2015		New Bus Service
39	54	N/A		20 Apr 2015
40	55	N/A
N/A		7	N/A	27 Apr 2015		Route Extension
41	N/A	8	N/A	14 Jun 2015
N/A	56	N/A		16 Aug 2015		Supplementary Bus Service
42	57	N/A		20 Sept 2015		New Bus Service
43	58	N/A		22 Sept 2015		City Direct Service
44	59	N/A
N/A			1	28 Sept 2015		Route Amendment
45	60	N/A				City Direct Service
46	61	N/A		6 Oct 2015
N/A			2	12 Oct 2015		Route Amendment
47	62	N/A				City Direct Service
48	63	N/A		21 Nov 2015		New Bus Service
49	N/A	9	N/A	22 Nov 2015		Route Extension
50	64	N/A		20 Dec 2015		New Bus Service
51	65	N/A
52	66	N/A
53	67	N/A		27 Dec 2015
54	N/A	10	N/A			Route Extension
55	68	N/A		3 Jan 2016		New Bus Service
55	68	N/A
56	69	N/A		14 Feb 2016
57	70	N/A		29 Feb 2016		City Direct Service
58	71	N/A		8 Mar 2016
59	72	N/A		15 Mar 2016
60	73	N/A		20 Mar 2016		New Bus Service
61	74	N/A
62	75	N/A		22 Mar 2016		City Direct Service
63	76	N/A		29 Mar 2016
N/A			3	24 Apr 2016		Route Amendment
N/A		11	N/A			Route Extension
N/A	77	N/A				Supplementary Bus Service
64	78	N/A		15 May 2016		New Bus Service
65	79	N/A		12 Jun 2016
66	80	N/A		17 Oct 2016		City Direct Service
67	81	N/A		23 Oct 2016		New Bus Service
68	82	N/A		7 Nov 2016		City Direct Service
69	83	N/A		18 Dec 2016		New Bus Service
70	84	N/A
71	85	N/A		12 Mar 2017
72	86	N/A
73	87	N/A		18 Jun 2017
74	88	N/A
75	89	N/A		9 Jul 2017
76	90	N/A		27 Aug 2017
77	91	N/A		15 Oct 2017
78	92	N/A		21 Oct 2017
79	93	N/A
80	94	N/A		9 Dec 2017

See Also

• Bus Connectivity Enhancement Programme (BCEP)
• Bus Service Enhancement Programme Posters