🚲 Mobility

YPS Unified Bus Fare Card

Since 2020, Yangon's YRTC has fitted YBS buses with the tap-in YPS card, replacing flat cash fares with distance-based pricing, delivered through a private technology partner. By 2024 the card was accepted on about 90 of the city's roughly 118 bus lines, with QR-code mobile payment now rolling out too.

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🚲 Mobility Smart ticketing Public transport

📊 Impact

By 2024 the YPS card was accepted on about 90 of Yangon's roughly 118 YBS bus lines (on about 1,900 of ~2,900 buses); more than 60,000 cards were in circulation by April 2022.

Evidence🏛️ Official

Scale🏙️ City-wide

📖 Terms in this entry: Bus rapid transit (BRT) · E-ticketing · Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS)

Sources

⏳ Yangon Region Government (authority) — link coming soonOfficial administrative index recording urban infrastructure progress.

↗ Ministry of Information, Myanmar (authority)Official page by the city or public authority behind the project.

↗ Myanmar International TV (press)News coverage of the project.

This overview was generated with AI from the public sources listed above and checked against them before publication. It has not had a complete human fact-check — treat it as a starting point and follow the sources.

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🇬🇹 Transmetro Tarjeta Ciudadana · Guatemala City Both went cashless via a private card: Guatemala added bank-tap fast (2021); Yangon's YPS took to 2024 to reach 90 bus lines. 🇮🇳 Bhubaneswar's Transit Fare Card: From Odyssey to NCMC · Bhubaneswar Two private fare cards met different fates: Bhubaneswar's Odyssey stopped issuing in 2025; Yangon's YPS card is still expanding. 🇭🇺 BudapestGO Mobility Platform Integration · Budapest Budapest's Pay&Go added tap-to-ride on rail in 2023; Yangon's YPS card put contactless payment on ~90 of 118 bus lines by 2024. 🇨🇦 Winnipeg Transit Live Bus GPS Tracking · Winnipeg Two rider-facing upgrades: Winnipeg's live GPS tracking (2026) shows where the bus is; Yangon's YPS card (2020-) changes how you pay for it.

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📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “YPS Unified Bus Fare Card” — Yangon, Myanmar. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/yangon-transit-modernization/ (last verified 2026-08-02). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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