SOTRA Monpass Card and Sotra Mobile

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SOTRA, Abidjan's main public transport operator, presented its Monpass ticketing system in Marcory on 28 December 2018: a pay-as-you-go 'Liberte' card loadable from 500 FCFA and shareable within a household, plus a personalised season-ticket card with student, civil-servant, express and other tariffs. The Sotra Mobile app followed on 27 December 2022 and has since added a virtual card, NFC and QR validation, mobile-money top-up for physical cards without visiting an agency, and live tracking of buses approaching a stop.

Live 📅 since 2018

Outcome🔄 Ongoing

Evidence• No measured figure

Run bySociete des Transports Abidjanais (SOTRA)

Scale🏙️ City-wide

🎓 Lesson

SOTRA has published the features but not the take-up: no source gives the number of Monpass cards in circulation or the share of journeys paid digitally, which is the only figure that would show whether the cash queue actually shrank.

🚲 Mobility Smart ticketing Public transport

Sources

↗ Abidjan.net (media)29 December 2018. The Monpass launch: « La Societe des transports abidjanais (Sotra), a decide de s'inscrire resolument sur la voie de la digitalisation ». Names the two card types, the 500 FCFA minimum load on the Liberte card, the household-sharing feature and the list of season-ticket tariffs (scolaire, etudiant, fonctionnaire mensuel, prive, permanent, wibus, express, prestige). No supplier or fleet-coverage figure is given.

↗ Apple App Store (operator listing)Seller SOTRA. Version 1.0.0 released 27 December 2022; version history runs to 2.1.x in 2025, with release notes citing WAVE payment integration and virtual-card activation. Rating 4.2/5 from 351 ratings. This is what dates the app and disproves the press framing of a December 2025 'launch' — December 2025 was a feature release, not the app's debut.

↗ Afrik Soir (media)9 December 2025. Describes the current feature set: « creer sa carte virtuelle en quelques secondes, la recharger via les solutions de mobile money et regler immediatement son ticket a partir de son telephone », three validation paths (scan the bus QR, show a generated QR, or NFC), mobile-money top-up of physical Liberte and Abonnement cards, and « la possibilite de suivre en temps reel les bus approchant de son arret ». Contains no usage figures.

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📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “SOTRA Monpass Card and Sotra Mobile” — Abidjan, Ivory Coast. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/abidjan-sotra-monpass/ (last verified 2026-08-06). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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