ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the accessibility conditions in two developed Asian cities experiencing a greater public transport mode share and trip-making rate than Europe's top performers, Vienna and Zurich. Hong Kong, and particularly Singapore, are recent additions to the ranks of wealthy global cities and have been subject to rapid urban growth in population terms, they are the two largest cities in the Spatial Network Analysis for Multimodal Urban Transport Systems (SNAMUTS) sample. Singapore's public transport network consisted of four Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) lines, three light rail (LRT) lines and 198 bus lines. Singapore's global betweenness result is the highest in the global sample, indicating a widespread and significant presence' of public transport movement opportunities across the city. Like Singapore, Hong Kong is characterised by a public transport network that reaches into almost every corner of the settlement areas at the SNAMUTS standard with only minor exceptions for some offshore islands and the semi-rural outskirts of the New Territories.
