DF no Ponto & the Operational Supervision Centre

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Semob-DF's Centro de Supervisão Operacional (CSO) watches all 3,049 urban buses in the Federal District in real time, following punctuality, stopped vehicles and missed departures across more than 22,500 trips and roughly 1.3 million passenger boardings on a working day. According to the most detailed account of the system, each bus sends two data packets every 30 seconds — one operational (time, line, direction, latitude and longitude, speed, displacement) and one from the ticketing system. On 29 July 2025 that feed was opened to passengers as DF no Ponto, a free app and web portal run by Semob-DF that plans journeys, shows timetables and flags delays, route changes and interruptions. Semob-DF also began testing QR codes at bus stops so a passenger can pull the next departures for that specific stop.

Live 📅 since 2025

Outcome🔄 Ongoing

Evidence🏛️ Official

what does this mean?

The strongest source is the operator's or the city's own reporting — an official report, dataset or press release. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →

Run bySecretaria de Estado de Transporte e Mobilidade do Distrito Federal (Semob-DF)

Scale🏙️ City-wide

📊 Impact

Semob-DF reported more than 538,000 installs between the July 2025 launch and June 2026, and a satisfaction rate of 81.72% in its own survey of 2,726 users. About 75,000 people downloaded the app in its first week.

🎓 Lesson

The app is the visible half; the CSO behind it is what changed operations. Semob-DF says it now monitors 100% of the buses of every operating company in real time, where previously — by the account of the local press covering the launch — the metro and each of the five bus companies watched only its own fleet from its own command centre. Both the usage and the satisfaction numbers are the secretariat's own; no independent evaluation of punctuality or service reliability has been published.

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Sources

↗ Jornal de Brasília — CSO monitora a frota de ônibus do transporte coletivo do DF em tempo real27 May 2025. Carries the fleet and demand figures used here: 3,049 buses, over 22,500 trips a day, ~1.3 million weekday boardings, and the secretary's quote 'Nós monitoramos 100% dos ônibus de todas as empresas em tempo real'. Confirms Semob-DF operates the CSO. Also mentions the planned QR-code panels and a 'furo de parada' (missed-stop) detection system.

↗ Jornal de Brasília — DF no Ponto ultrapassa 538 mil usuários e tem 81,72% de aprovação20 June 2026 — the currency check. Source of the 538,000 installs and the 81.72% satisfaction rate from a survey of 2,726 users; both are Semob-DF figures relayed by the paper, hence evidence 'official'. Also lists the operational signals Semob draws from the app (delays, early running, service gaps, route changes).

↗ Correio da Manhã / Brasilianas — Brasília viverá uma revolução no transporte público, com o novo sistema 'DF no Ponto'22 July 2025. The most detailed technical account found: GTFS as the data standard, the CSO housed in a converted warehouse in the TCB garage near the Palácio do Buriti at a cost of about R$9 million, and the two-packets-every-30-seconds figure used in the snippet. CAVEAT: this is an opinion column, so the 30-second cadence and the R$9m cost rest on it alone — the cost is deliberately left out of the entry. It also states the live feed is shared with the TCDF (audit court) and MPDFT (public prosecutor); that claim is single-sourced and is deliberately NOT asserted in the entry, but is worth verifying, because it would be a distinctive accountability arrangement.

↗ Semob-DF — DF no Ponto official portalOperator's own portal, fetched successfully. Confirms it is 'uma iniciativa do Governo do Distrito Federal', and lists route planning, timetables, service alerts and saved routes/stops. Note it does not advertise a downloadable GTFS feed, so the entry does not claim open transit data — the data is published through the app and portal, not as a bulk feed.

↗ Jornal de Brasília / Semob-DF — Usuários aderem ao DF no Ponto para planejar viagens do transporte público coletivoRelay of the Semob-DF release. Source for the 29 July 2025 launch date, the ~75,000 first-week downloads (mostly Android), the secretary's 'dez funcionalidades', and the QR-code-at-bus-stops trial. The Semob-DF and Agência Brasília originals of this release exist but returned 404 to automated fetching from this sandbox.

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📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “DF no Ponto & the Operational Supervision Centre” — Brasília, Brazil. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/brasilia-df-no-ponto/ (last verified 2026-08-10). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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