Yangon CCTV Traffic Control Centre

After sanctions eased in 2011, Yangon's car fleet nearly doubled and the city logged some 3,000 collisions and 506 road deaths in 2013 alone. YCDC signed a contract with China Railway 21st Bureau in February 2016 for a Hikvision-based traffic management system, live by October 2017 per the vendor: a control room monitors 154 signal-controlled intersections around the clock, red-light cameras produce evidential photos including plate numbers, radar checks speeds, and recorded violations trigger warning letters to drivers. Reuters reported in July 2022 that this Hikvision traffic command centre — part of roughly 3,000 cameras at 1,000 sites citywide before 2021, across a mix of brands — now sits inside the military junta's nationwide camera-surveillance rollout, procured through local firms sourcing from Hikvision, Dahua and Huawei. All performance claims come from the vendor; no independent evaluation of the system's traffic effects has been published, and its operational state has not been independently confirmed since 2022.