The city of

Phnom Penh Phnom Penh is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Cambodia, most populous city of Cambodia. It has been the national capital since 1865 and has grown to become the nation's primate city and its political, economic, industr ...

is served by multiple transport systems including public buses, private taxis and ride-hailing via mobile apps. Phnom Penh is connected to the rest of the country through the national roads as well as by domestic flights to and from

Phnom Penh International Airport Phnom Penh International Airport , formerly Pochentong International Airport , is the busiest international airport in Cambodia and serves as the country's main international gateway. It is Cambodia's second largest airport by area after the ...

. The Municipality of Phnom Penh is largely responsible for overseeing the public transport in Phnom Penh.

Roads

Road-based transport is the primary source of transport in Phnom Penh. It consists of taxis, tuk tuks and private transportation.

Buses

As of 2020, the public bus transportation in Phnom Penh consists of 17 lines: Since 2014, air conditioned buses have run along three main bus routes across the city, managed by the Phnom Penh Municipal Government and formerly sponsored by the

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. Line A travels north/south along

Monivong Boulevard Monivong Boulevard () is a central boulevard and thoroughfare of Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. It was named after King Monivong of Cambodia. Most streets in Phnom Penh have numbers rather than names and Monivong Boulevard is also known a ...

going around

Wat Phnom Wat Phnom (, Romanization of Khmer#UNGEGN, UNGEGN: , Romanization of Khmer#ALA-LC Romanization Tables, ALA-LC: ; "Mountain Pagoda") is a Buddhist temple (wat) in Doun Penh section, Doun Penh, Phnom Penh. The site features a pagoda, a stupa symbo ...

(stop 21), the

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(stop 30) and near the

Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (), or simply Tuol Sleng (, ; lit. "Hill of the Poisonous Trees" or "Strychnine Hill"), is a museum chronicling the Cambodian genocide. Located in Phnom Penh, the site is a former secondary school which was used as ...

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and the

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(stop 35). Line B serves the western side along Mao Tse Tung Boulevard, going much further south to Ta Khmao, capital of the Kandal Province near the

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Genocidal Centre. Line C goes east/west Phnom Penh along the Russian Confederation Boulevard to Phnom Penh International Airport BRT station. The fare for the public buses is KHR1500 per voyage irrespective of distance. Students and senior citizens travel free as of 2015. Public transport operates between 5:30am to 8pm. Phnom Penh City Bus will be use

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that are currently in operational test.

Taxis

Taxis appear in the form of cars, motorcycles, and ''

tuk-tuk An auto rickshaw is a motorized version of the pulled rickshaw or cycle rickshaw. Most have three wheels and do not tilt. They are known by many other terms in various countries, including three-wheeler, Adaidaita Sahu, Keke-napep, Maruwa, auto, ...

''. Motorcycle taxis are a common and unregulated form of public transport, common in Phnom Penh. Ride-hailing via mobile apps has become a popular mean of transportation within Phnom Penh. After acquiring

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, Grab has become the largest ride-hailing service in Phnom Penh and Siem Reap, offering car, tuktuk and motorbike services. A local based ride-hailing app, PassApp is also widely used in Phnom Penh.

Rail

The only form of rail transport in Phnom Penh was the short-lived airport shuttle train operated by Royal Railway. The journey from

to the city centre, and vice versa took under 40 minutes. The airport train first began service on 10 April 2018 and ceased in 2020. In 2016, the Cambodian government announced that they were getting assistance from

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(JICA) to conduct a feasibility study on an AGT system in Phnom Penh. The study began in 2017 and was completed and submitted to the Ministry of Works and Public Transport in 2019. Separately, in 2019, the government has also awarded contracts to two Chinese firms to conduct feasibility studies on both a metro and a light rail system.

Airports

Phnom Penh is served by

, the largest airport in terms of land area in Cambodia. A new larger international airport,

Techo Takhmao International Airport Techo International Airport is an international airport currently under construction in Kandal Province of Cambodia. Located about south of Phnom Penh, the first phase is expected to be operational by 2025 and will replace the existing Phnom Pe ...

, is being built at Kandal province, south of Phnom Penh and will replace the existing airport once fully completed.

References

External links

Cambodians board Phnom Penh's first public buses in more than a decade

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Public Bus System Works, But Needs Improvement, Riders Say

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