In the near future, drivers and passengers entering Singapore at its land checkpoints by cars and cargo vehicles will be able to clear immigration without disembarking from their vehicles, through an automated system.

Known as the Automated Passenger Clearance System (APCS), it will be one of the world’s first automated systems enabling multiple travellers to self-clear immigration concurrently, ICA's Deputy Director for the Operations Division Joe Tan said on May 8.