Both systems documented here outlived the government that bought them, and changed meaning in the process. The bus fare card kept spreading after the coup even as the service around it decayed, and the traffic control centre — bought to send red-light warning letters — became part of a surveillance apparatus. In Yangon a procurement decision is the thing that lasts.

The atlas documents 2 projects in Yangon, the earliest dating to 2017: 2 still running without a verdict. Every entry carries an evidence grade — the strongest here is independent (1 entry) — and links its sources.

All 2 projects in Yangon

✔ Every published entry is checked against the public sources it cites before publication.

Outcome: 2 ongoing — Evidence: 1 independent · 1 official

Deeper reads

Where Yangon appears in the atlas's own analysis.

Compare with other cities

Show 2 more comparisonsShow fewer

• 🇮🇳 Bhubaneswar: Bhubaneswar's Transit Fare Card: From Odyssey to NCMC Two private fare cards met different fates: Bhubaneswar's Odyssey stopped issuing in 2025; Yangon's YPS card is still expanding.
• 🇭🇺 Budapest: BudapestGO Mobility Platform Integration 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.

Official strategy and sources

📎 Cite this city

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Smart-city projects in Yangon, Myanmar.” The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/cities/yangon/ (last verified 2026-08-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.

The underlying data is free to reuse with attribution — see the open data page.

🔔 Follow changes to Yangon’s entries (RSS)