Last July, Transport Minister Khaw Boon Wan set a target for Singapore's MRT network - to have no more than one delay in one million kilometres travelled.
The international measure for this is MKBF (mean kilometres before failure), which averages the number of five-minute-or-more delays over the total distance clocked by trains in a system. The higher the number, the more reliable a system is supposed to be.
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