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Since 3 July 2010, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) and Public Transport Council (PTC) had launched the new fare collection model - '''Distance-Based Fare''' (DBF).

This means that the fares payable on public transport are based on the '''total distance traveled''', hence benefiting transferring commuters with a maximum of 5 transfers and or within 2 hour period (from the time tapped on the first trip).<ref>[https://simplygo.com.sg/travel-fares/"Public Transport Fares"] SimplyGo.</ref>

==Fares==
All figures stated below are valid for payment by CEPAS card or any other valid card.

===Rail Fare===
{|class=wikitable border=1 style="text-align:center"
|-
!rowspan=3|Fares
|-
!Adult!!Senior Citizen /<br>Persons with Disabilities!!Student!!Workfare Transport<br>Child Concession||Children under 0.9m/under age 7
|-
|$1.19 - $2.47||$0.69 - $1.03||$0.52 - $0.74||$0.78 - $1.83||FREE
|}

*'''Notes:'''
**Children who height is above 0.9m (under the age of 7) are required to have a child concession card.
**A $0.50 or the equivalent rail fare, whichever is lower, discount applied if commuters tap in to any MRT/LRT station before 7.45am on Weekdays except Public Holidays.

===Bus Fare===
{|class=wikitable border=1 style="text-align:center"
|-
!rowspan=2|Type!!colspan=6|Fares
|-
!Adult!!Senior Citizen!!Persons with<br>Disabilities!!Student!!Workfare Transport<br>Concession!!Children under 0.9m/under age 7
|-
!Feeder
|$1.19||colspan=2|$0.69||$0.52||$0.78||FREE
|-
!Basic/Trunk
|$1.19 - $2.47||colspan=2|$0.69 - $1.03||$0.52 - $0.74||$0.78 - $1.83||FREE
|-
!Express
|$1.79 - $3.07||colspan=2|$1.14 - $1.48||$0.82 - $1.04||$1.28 - $2.33||FREE
|-
!Premium
|colspan=6|$3.00 - $6.00
|}

*'''Notes:''' Children with height above 0.9m (under the age of 7) are required to have a child concession card.

==Transferring Rules==
In order for a valid transfer, the following conditions must be met:
*All journeys must be within 2 hours of the first boarding (on the same journey).
*Maximum of 5 transfers can be made within a journey.
*45 minutes for transfers between rail station and bus service, or between different bus services.
*15 minutes for transfers between different rail stations.
*Current bus service must not be the same number as the preceding bus service.
*Terminating trip for dual-loop feeders service and transfer to its non-terminating trip at respective interchange will consist as a single trip.
*No exit and re-entry at the same station (15 minutes for transfer at {{Stn|Bukit Panjang}}, {{Stn|Choa Chu Kang}}, {{Stn|Newton}} and {{Stn|Tampines}} stations).

==Fare Calculation==
When a combination of fare structure was involved in a calculation, such as Feeder Bus Service → MRT, fares are calculated using the most expensive fare structures '''FIRST'''.

Take note of the following fare payment calculation when using the old CEPAS Card Based Ticketing (CBT) and the new SimplyGo Accounting Based Ticketing (ABT) when using the following network.

===Rail Network===
As there are many ways a commuter may choose to travel in the train network, the approach that was used was to take the shortest possible distance, irregardless of the time taken.

LTA formally uses the shortest travelling time to determine the fare when Distance Based Fare was launched, which was reverted to the shortest possible distance some time in 2015.

====Different Payment Method====
{|class="wikitable"
!S/N!!Trip!!Card Based Ticketing!!Account Based Ticketing
|-
!rowspan=2|1
!Tapping in at Station A
|Gate open
|Gate open
|-
!Tapping out at Station B
|Gate open & fare (Station A → Station B) is deducted from card
|Gate open & fare (Station A → Station B) is posted to account.
'''Fare will only be deducted from card once the final fare is confirmed within 3 days.'''
|-
!rowspan=3|2
!Tapping in at Station A
|Gate open
|Gate open
|-
!Exit at Station B
|No fare deducted
|Maximum fare from Station A will be posted to account the next day.
'''Fare will only be deducted from card once the final fare is confirmed within 3 days.'''
|-
!Tapping in at Station C
|Error. Proceed to Passenger Service Centre to pay & unlock
|Gate open
|-
!rowspan=2|3
!Enter at Station A
|Gate open
|Gate open
|-
!Tapping out at Station B
|Error. Proceed to Passenger Service Centre to pay & unlock
|Gate open & maximum fare from Station B will be posted to account.
'''Fare will only be deducted from card once the final fare is confirmed within 3 days.'''
|-
!rowspan=4|4
!Tapping in at Station A
|Gate open
|Gate open
|-
!Tapping out at Station B<sup>1</sup>
|Gate open & fare (Station A → Station B) is deducted from card
|Gate open & fare (Station A → Station B) is posted to account.
'''Fare will only be deducted from card once the final fare is confirmed within 3 days.'''
|-
!Tapping in at Station B<sup>1</sup>
|Gate open & fare (Station A → Station B) is refunded from card
|Gate open
|-
!Tapping out at Station C
|Gate open & fare (Station A → Station C) is deducted from card
|Gate open & fare difference (Differences between Station A → Station C and Station A → Station B) is posted to account.
'''Fare will only be deducted from card once the final fare is confirmed within 3 days.'''
|}

'''Notes'''
*<sup>1</sup> - Only {{Stn|Newton}}, {{Stn|Bukit Panjang}}, {{Stn|Tampines}}, {{Stn|Choa Chu Kang}} stations are allowed where transferring between lines are done within 15 minutes.

===Bus Network===
Feeders service are capped at 3.2km per journey leg, despite transferring between services.

For example:
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
!rowspan=2|Trip!!colspan=3|Distance!!rowspan=2|Fare
|-
!Travelled!!Payable!!Accumulated Payable
|-
!style="text-align:left"|Feeder A
|4.2 km||3.2 km||3.2 km||$1.19
|-
!style="text-align:left"|Feeder B
|1.7 km||1.7 km||4.9 km||$0.21<br>($1.40 - $1.19)
|-
!colspan=4 style="text-align:right"|Total!!$1.40
|}

{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
!rowspan=2|Trip!!colspan=3|Distance!!rowspan=2|Fare
|-
!Travelled!!Payable!!Accumulated Payable
|-
!style="text-align:left"|Trunk (Basic) A
|4.2 km||4.2 km||4.2 km||$1.19
|-
!style="text-align:left"|Feeder B
|3.9 km||3.2 km||7.4 km||$0.37<br>($1.56 - $1.19)
|-
!colspan=4 style="text-align:right"|Total!!$1.56
|}

However, transferring between terminating feeder trips service at last calling stop (i.e. Interchanges) and transfer to the same feeder service at the same stop within 45 minutes does not consider as a new trip.

{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
!rowspan=2|Trip!!colspan=3|Distance!!rowspan=2|Fare
|-
!Travelled!!Payable!!Accumulated Payable
|-
!style="text-align:left"|Feeder A (Terminating Trip)
|4.2 km||3.2 km||3.2 km||$1.19
|-
!style="text-align:left"|Feeder A
|1.7 km||0.0 km||3.2 km||$0.00<br>($1.19 - $1.19)
|-
!colspan=4 style="text-align:right"|Total!!$1.19
|}

====Different Payment Method====
{|class="wikitable"
!S/N!!Trip!!Card Based Ticketing!!Account Based Ticketing
|-
!rowspan=2|1
!Tapping in when boarding
|Maximum fare (Boarding Stop → Terminating Stop) is deducted from card.
|Boarding Stop recorded.
|-
!Tapping out when alighting
|Unused Fare (Alighting Stop → Terminating Stop) is refunded to card
|Fare (Boarding Stop → Alighting Stop) is posted to account.
'''Fare will only be deducted from card once the final fare is confirmed within 3 days.'''
|-
!rowspan=2|2
!Boarding without tapping in
|Nothing
|Nothing
|-
!Tapping out when alighting
|Error. Approached Bus Captain for assistance.
|Fare (Origin Stop → Alighting Stop) is posted to account the next day.
'''Fare will only be deducted from card once the final fare is confirmed within 3 days.'''
|-
!rowspan=2|3
!Tapping in when boarding
|Maximum fare (Boarding Stop → Terminating Stop) is deducted from card.
|Boarding Stop recorded.
|-
!Alighting without tapping out
|Nothing
|Fare (Boarding Stop → Terminating Stop) is posted to account the next day.
'''Fare will only be deducted from card once the final fare is confirmed within 3 days.'''
|}

==Distance Discrepancy==
{| style="margin:0 0 10px" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0
!width=70 height=50 bgcolor=#FFF6EE rowspan=2|<div class="triangle" style="background-color:#F80;color:#FFF;">!</div>
|bgcolor=#FFF6EE style="font-size:110%;"|'''Note:''' This section may be out-of-date as the following discrepancy may have been corrected.
|}

Commuters travelling between a bus-stop may be '''charged''' differently based on the service taken, despite the same route taken. The following are the list of discrepancy.

{|class=wikitable
!width=200|Boarding Stop
!width=200|Alighting Stop
!width=250|Bus Service(s)
!Distance (km)
!Reason
|-
|rowspan=2|{{BS76199|landmark=}}||rowspan=2|{{BS75009|landmark=}}
|{{Bus/4}} {{Bus/8}} {{Bus/19}} {{Bus/28}} {{Bus/29}} {{Bus/37}} {{Bus/38}} {{Bus/81}} {{Bus/291}}||style='text-align:center'|0.3
|rowspan=2|Different Berth was used at Tampines Int (East/West Wings)
|-
|{{Bus/293}}||style='text-align:center'|0.6
|-
|rowspan=2|{{BS80151|landmark=}}||rowspan=2|{{BS92091|landmark=}}
|{{Bus/10|a=e}}||style='text-align:center'|5.9
|rowspan=2|Distance based on parent service
|-
|{{Bus/14|a=}}||style='text-align:center'|5.5
|-
|rowspan=2|{{BS92099|landmark=}}||rowspan=2|{{BS80159|landmark=}}
|{{Bus/10|a=e}}||style='text-align:center'|5.9
|rowspan=2|Distance based on parent service
|-
|{{Bus/14|a=}}||style='text-align:center'|5.4
|-
|rowspan=2|{{BS78191|landmark=}}||rowspan=2|{{BS98099|landmark=}}
|{{Bus/17}}||style='text-align:center'|0.1
|rowspan=2|TBC
|-
|{{Bus/12}} {{Bus/12|a=e}} {{Bus/21}} {{Bus/39}} {{Bus/53}} {{Bus/81}} {{Bus/359}} {{Bus/518}} {{Bus/518|a=A}} {{Bus/661}}||style='text-align:center'|0.2
|}

==References==
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{{Mass Rapid Transit}}
{{Light Rail Transit}}