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
1	21 Oct 2012	Bus Service 860	New Bus Service
2		Bus Service 119	Route Extension
3	18 Nov 2012	Bus Service 116	New Bus Service
4	16 Dec 2012	Bus Service 50
5	17 Dec 2012	Bus Service 513
6	18 Feb 2013	Bus Service 850E
7	17 Mar 2013	Bus Service 4
8	18 Mar 2013	Bus Service 982E
9	21 Apr 2013	Bus Service 120
10	9 Jun 2013	Bus Service 20
11		Bus Service 141
12	17 Jun 2013	Bus Service 951E
13	18 Aug 2013	Bus Service 904
14	2 Sep 2013	Bus Service 651	City Direct Service
15	15 Nov 2013	Bus Service 972	New Bus Service
16	14 Dec 2013	Bus Service 49
17	06 Jan 2014	Bus Service 652	City Direct Service
18	13 Jan 2014	Bus Service 653
19	19 Jan 2014	Bus Service 371	New Bus Service
20	20 Jan 2014	Bus Service 654	City Direct Service
21	16 Feb 2014	Bus Service 803	New Bus Service
22	17 Feb 2014	Bus Service 655	City Direct Service
23		Bus Service 656
24	24 Feb 2014	Bus Service 657
25	16 Mar 2014	Bus Service 121	New Bus Service
-	14 Apr 2014	Bus Service 912P	Peak Period Short Service
	22 Apr 2014	Bus Service 240P
	29 Apr 2014	Bus Service 222P
	6 May 2014	Bus Service 268P
	18 May 2014	Bus Service 143M	Supplementary Bus Service
26	19 May 2014	Bus Service 658	City Direct Service
27	8 Jun 2014	Bus Service 11	Route Extension
28	9 Jun 2014	Bus Service 659	City Direct Service
-	10 Jun 2014	Bus Service 358P	Peak Period Short Service
		Bus Service 359P
29	23 Jun 2014	Bus Service 660	City Direct Service
-	24 Jun 2014	Bus Service 291P	Peak Period Short Service
		Bus Service 293P
	30 Jun 2014	Bus Service 307P
	13 Jul 2014	Bus Service 63M	Extension Of Operational Hours
30	17 Aug 2014	Bus Service 386	New Bus Service
-		Bus Service 859A	Supplementary Bus Service
		Bus Service 859B
	24 Aug 2014	Bus Service 123M	Route Extension
31	12 Sep 2014	Bus Service 324	New Bus Service
-		Bus Service 139M	Supplementary Bus Service
32	15 Nov 2014	Bus Service 990	New Bus Service
-	16 Nov 2014	Bus Service 17A	Extension Of Operational Hours
		Bus Service 43M	Supplementary Bus Service
33	23 Nov 2014	Bus Service 201	New Bus Service
34	14 Dec 2014	Bus Service 41
35		Bus Service 140
36	15 Dec 2014	Bus Service 35	Route Extension
-	30 Dec 2014	Bus Service 285P	Peak Period Short Service
	6 Jan 2015	Bus Service 265P
	13 Jan 2015	Bus Service 903P
	20 Jan 2015	Bus Service 811P
		Bus Service 812P
37	14 Feb 2015	Bus Service 386	Route Extension
38	15 Mar 2015	Bus Service 122	New Bus Service
39	20 Apr 2015	Bus Service 301
40		Bus Service 983
-	27 Apr 2015	Bus Service 982E	Route Extension