Trans Metro Bandung — Live Tracking and QR Fares

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Bandung put its city buses, its tourist bus and its school buses on one live map. Then it made paying by QR code cheaper than paying cash — the discount is the enforcement.

Outcome🔄 Ongoing

Evidence🏛️ Officialgrades the sourcing — this entry states no impact figure

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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 byBLUD UPTD Angkutan, Dinas Perhubungan Kota Bandung

Scale🏙️ City-wide

Part of 1001 Smart Cities — 1,167 documented projects · 🏙️ 6 more in Bandung · 🚌 Public transport guide · 🚲 Mobility projects

Trans Metro Bandung has run since 23 September 2009 under a semi-autonomous unit of the city transport department, and now covers five main corridors plus two feeders. Its digital layer is a single tracking site, BEMO (Bandung Easy Mobility), which shows the real-time position of the TMB fleet alongside the Bandros tour buses and the city school buses, and helps riders find the nearest stop — one map for every vehicle the unit operates rather than an app per service. Fares can be paid in cash or by QRIS, Indonesia's national QR standard, and the operator prices them differently: Rp 4,000 in cash against Rp 3,000 by QR for a general rider, and Rp 2,000 against Rp 1,000 for a uniformed student. The same unit also runs the BOSEH bike share.

Live 📅 since 2009

🎓 Lesson

Bandung did not mandate cashless payment; it made cash cost a quarter more and let riders decide. Where a city cannot compel a fare medium, a visible price gap does the work that a policy would — and putting every vehicle a single unit operates on one map, instead of one app each, is the cheapest anti-sprawl decision a transport department can make.

🚲 Mobility Public transport Smart ticketing Sensors & IoT

Sources

↗ BLUD UPTD Angkutan, Dishub Kota Bandung (operator, 26 Sept 2024)The whole entry. Verbatim: 'Layanan ini secara resmi dioperasikan pada 23 September 2009. Trans Metro Bandung mempunyai lima koridor utama dan dua koridor pengumpan (feeder) yang sudah berjalan'; 'armada bus Trans Metro Bandung dapat di ketahui lokasinya secara realtime melalui website BEMO–Bandung Easy Mobility (bersama dengan armada Bandung Tour on Bus dan Bis Sekolah)'; and the fare split 'Rp4.000 untuk umum dan Rp2.000 untuk pelajar… biaya QRIS sebesar Rp3.000 untuk penumpang umum dan Rp1.000 untuk pelajar berseragam'.

↗ BLUD UPTD Angkutan, Dishub Kota Bandung (operator)Confirms the unit's remit covers Trans Metro Bandung, Bandros, BOSEH bike share and the city school buses: 'melaksanakan sebagian tugas Dinas di bidang pengelolaan Bus Trans Metro Bandung, Bandung Tour On The Bus (BANDROS), BOSEH Bike Sharing dan Bus Sekolah Kota Bandung'.

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Compare this project

🇮🇩 TransJakarta BRT & Mikrotrans Angkot Integration · Jakarta Indonesian bus networks with a real data layer; Jakarta pays its drivers by the kilometre, Bandung prices the QR fare below the cash fare. 🇵🇭 beep Card: Metro Manila's Concession-Run Transit Fare System · Manila Both moved fares off cash without a card monopoly — and in both the discount, not the technology, is what changes behaviour. 🇮🇩 BOSEH Bike Share · Bandung Run by the same unit: one map covers every vehicle it operates, which is how the bikes' absence from it stands out.

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🚦 Asphalt or algorithms 📖 Bus rapid transit (BRT)📖 E-ticketing 📖 Fare capping

📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Trans Metro Bandung — Live Tracking and QR Fares” — Bandung, Indonesia. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/bandung-tmb-tracking-fares/ (last verified 2026-08-06). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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