Sustainability and Smart Cities

IREUS conducts various urban sustainability research, including studies of behavioural interventions in electricity consumption via public campaigns, impact of construction noise and transboundary haze on self-protection behaviours of households, and others. IREUS also conducts randomized controlled trials (RCTs) on the effects of real time feedback on water consumption behaviours using smart water shower meters.

Proposed Research Projects

Smart information feedback on air-conditioning usage

Past Research Project

Jointly Funded by PUB and Academic Research Fund (Tier 1)

“Behavioral intervention using real estate feedback on water consumption via smart meters”

 

Selected Publications

Agarwal S, Satyanarain R, Sing TF, and Vollmer D. 2016. Effects of construction activities on residential electricity consumption: Evidence from Singapore's public housing estates. Energy Economics 55: 101-111.

Agarwal S, Satyanarain R, Sing TF, and Yang Y. 2017. Nudges from School Children and Electricity Conservation: Evidence from the "Project Carbon Zero" Campaign in Singapore. Energy Economics 61: 29-41.

Diao M, Qin Y, and Sing TF. 2016. Negative Externality of Rail Noise and Housing Values: Evidence from the Cessation of Railway Operations in Singapore. Real Estate Economics 44 (4): 878-917.

Hammer MS, Fan Y, Swinburn TS, Weber M, Siwnburn TK, Weinhold D, and Neitzel RL. 2019. Applying a Novel Environmental Health Framework Theory (I-ACT) to Noise Pollution Policies in the United States, United Kingdom and the Netherlands. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management.

Qin Y, and Zhu H. 2018. Run Away? Air Pollution and Emigration Interests in China. Journal of Population Economics 31 (1): 235-266.

Zhao D, and Sing TF. 2017. Air Pollution, Economic Spillovers, and Urban Growth in China. Annals of Regional Science 58 (2): 321-340.

 

Working Papers

Agarwal S, Sultana M, and Sing TF. 2019. Public Media Campaign and Energy Conservation: A Natural Experiment in Singapore.

Fan Y, and Weinhold D. 2019. Neighbourhood Noice, Sleep Disruption, and Health.

 

Research Team

AGARWAL, Sumit

QIN, Yu

SING, Tien Foo

SULTANA, Mahanaaz