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São Paulo's contactless Bilhete Único launched on 18 May 2004
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São Paulo's contactless Bilhete Único launched on 18 May 2004
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the state-run Metro and CPTM trains were added from 2006
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the bus window widened to three hours in 2008
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Ordinary bank cards work at Metro turnstiles since December 2025 and on 12 bus lines since 2019, but a bank tap buys no transfers
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SPTrans blocked 123,700 cards for irregular credit use in the first five months of 2025
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One integrated fare of R$9.38 (rates effective 6 January 2026) covers up to three municipal bus boardings within three hours plus one Metro or CPTM boarding in the first two hours
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bought separately a bus fare is R$5.30 and a rail fare R$5.40
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A monthly integrated pass costs R$411.13 for ten boardings a day over 31 days
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Municipal buses have been free every Sunday since 17 December 2023, which the city put at about R$280 million a year in forgone fare revenue
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São Paulo has carried transfer rules across a municipal bus operator and a state rail operator since 2006 on a proprietary card
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seven years after its bank-card pilot began it still cannot do the same with a bank card: tapping Visa or Mastercard buys one ride, never an integration
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src-d078e86397b7c0d9Operator fare table. Integrated common credit R$9,38: 'permite até três embarques em ônibus diferentes, no período de três horas, e um embarque no Metrô/Trem, nas duas primeiras horas' ('allows up to three boardings on different buses within three hours, and one Metro/train boarding in the first two hours'). Bus-only R$5,30; rail-only R$5,40; VT integrated R$11,32; monthly integrated R$411,13, which 'dá direito a dez embarques/dia durante 31 dias corridos' ('gives the right to ten boardings a day for 31 consecutive days'). Also lists 'Gratuidade aos domingos: R$ 0,00' ('free on Sundays').
src-a799b4aade27bf7fOperator rulebook: 'Até 4 embarques em ônibus diferentes, no período de três horas, com o pagamento de uma tarifa de Ônibus Comum' ('up to 4 boardings on different buses within three hours on one common bus fare') and 'Um embarque no sistema trilhos (Metrô/CPTM) e até 3 embarques em ônibus diferentes no período de 3 horas' ('one rail boarding plus up to 3 boardings on different buses within 3 hours'), the rail leg 'durante as duas primeiras horas' ('during the first two hours').
src-2b8fbba79abdadb1City retrospective, source for the launch date and the rail integration year: 'Quando foi lançado, em 18 de maio de 2004' ('when it was launched, on 18 May 2004') and 'A partir de 2006, o Bilhete Único passou a ser utilizado também pelos passageiros da CPTM e do Metrô' ('from 2006 the Bilhete Único came to be used also by CPTM and Metro passengers'). It adds that 43 million cards were issued in the first ten years.
src-7617db82c623807aAnnouncement of the bus-rail integration: 'A integração será implantada progressivamente a partir do final de novembro' ('the integration will be rolled out progressively from the end of November') and 'o custo será de R$ 15 milhões, divididos igualmente entre Prefeitura e Estado' ('the cost will be R$15 million, split equally between the city and the state'). Source of the cost figure; the city's own 2014 retrospective dates passenger use from 2006, so the entry uses 2006.
src-3e154645ea262e4aDates the extension of the transfer window: 'Entrou em vigor nesta segunda-feira (28/07)' ('came into force this Monday, 28/07'), affecting '6 milhões de passageiros que podem fazer até quatro viagens pagando apenas uma passagem' ('6 million passengers who can make up to four trips paying only one fare'). This correction matters: the extension is widely misattributed to the 2014 Haddad administration, which in fact launched the separate monthly and daily temporal passes.
src-49f431407482de0cPilot began 16 September 2019 on 12 bus lines, planned for three months or 500,000 transactions. Key limit: 'Nesta primeira fase do projeto não haverá a integração tarifária com outros ônibus ou com os sistemas de trilhos' ('in this first phase there will be no fare integration with other buses or with the rail systems'), plus a cap of 'ligado 5 passagens em meia hora e 10 passagens por dia' ('5 fares in half an hour and 10 fares a day').
src-d9277ba9487babf3Operator page still listing the same 12 lines plus 3 terminals and 6 Expresso Tiradentes stations seven years after the pilot began, and stating 'O pagamento por essa tecnologia não permite integração tarifária com outros ônibus ou com outros modais' ('payment by this technology does not allow fare integration with other buses or other modes'). Canonical URL without the accent: https://www.sptrans.com.br/pagamento-da-tarifa-com-cartao-de-debito-e-credito/
src-845094ffdc37d9f4State operator page confirming the two-administration governance: the municipal Bilhete Único carries bus-rail integration credit, while the state Cartão TOP works on rail and on intermunicipal EMTU buses 'com redução tarifária no segundo embarque' ('with a fare reduction on the second boarding'). Municipal and state instruments remain distinct.
src-db350623e9269eb0Independent trade press, replacing the operator's own post at metro.sp.gov.br which returns 404. Establishes the December 2025 open-loop rollout and its limits: physical Mastercard, Visa and Elo cards only, with virtual cards on phones and smartwatches not accepted in this first phase; at least one dedicated turnstile per station; lines 1 and 3 first, lines 2 and 15 during December; the same card usable again only after a 30-minute interval; and a pilot of six months, extendable. No fare integration with buses is claimed anywhere, which is the point this entry rests on. An engineering-association summary (aeamesp.org.br, 3 December 2025) asserts that Apple Pay, Google Pay and Samsung Pay work — that contradicts the operator and the trade press and was not used.
src-c9c3b947b7ba1fb3Free Sunday travel from 17 December 2023 on all SPTrans municipal lines, explicitly not covering rail: 'Não há necessidade de integração com o sistema metroferroviário' ('there is no need for integration with the metro-rail system'). Forgone revenue put at 'R$ 280 milhões no ano' ('R$280 million a year'). Independently corroborated by the current SPTrans fare table.
src-8928d99490d7e33eTrade press reporting the Tribunal de Contas do Município audit: 'o sistema de Bilhete Único da cidade tem tecnologia ultrapassada e insegura, o que possibilita fraudes' ('the city's Bilhete Único system uses outdated and insecure technology, which enables fraud'); 'o software do Bilhete Único é de 2004, desde sua criação, e é vulnerável a várias fraudes'; '60% dos cartões em circulação são de tecnologia já ultrapassada, mas os 40% restantes também têm vulnerabilidade' ('60% of cards in circulation use already outdated technology, but the remaining 40% are also vulnerable'). The R$100 million modernisation figure is attributed in the article to a news report, not to the audit.
src-30c8130e29a4fdc4Source of the 2025 fraud figures: 'SPTrans registrou neste ano 99 boletins de ocorrência em delegacias da capital contra fraudes no bilhete único' ('SPTrans filed 99 police reports this year against Bilhete Único fraud') and 'nos cinco primeiros meses do ano, 123,7 mil cartões acabaram bloqueados por uso irregular de crédito' ('in the first five months of the year, 123,700 cards were blocked for irregular use of credit'), with seven arrests.
src-bdba8e1b0592ceefSPTrans publishes five datasets under Creative Commons CCZero (CC0): payroll, cash flow, code of conduct, 'Créditos Eletrônicos do Bilhete Único' (outstanding card credit by card type) and the tariff cost spreadsheet. No boarding-level, origin-destination or transaction ride data is published, which is why this entry carries no open-data tag.