Villo

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Villo! is the public bike-sharing system of the Brussels-Capital Region, operated by JCDecaux. It provides a network of stations across Brussels where users can rent and return bikes. The MobilityTwin.Brussels platform provides real-time availability data for all Villo! stations.

Source

Endpoints

Stations

/villo/stations

GEOJSON APPLICATION/JSON

Real-time availability of Villo! bike-sharing stations in Brussels including available bikes and stands per station. The counts are current, but last_update, as published by opendata.brussels.be, lags the real time by the Brussels UTC offset (two hours in summer, one in winter).

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import requests
import geopandas as gpd

from datetime import datetime, timedelta, timezone

yesterday_noon = (datetime.now(timezone.utc) - timedelta(days=1)).replace(
    hour=12, minute=0, second=0, microsecond=0
)
params = {
    "timestamp": yesterday_noon.isoformat(),   # ISO accepted; epoch also works
}

url = "https://api.mobilitytwin.brussels/villo/stations"

data = requests.get(url, headers={
        'Authorization': 'Bearer [MY_API_KEY]'
}, params=params).json()

gdf = gpd.GeoDataFrame.from_features(data["features"])

# Show stations with most available bikes
top = gdf.nlargest(10, 'available_bikes')[['name_fr', 'available_bikes', 'available_bike_stands', 'municipality_fr']]
print("Stations with most available bikes:")
print(top.to_string(index=False))

# Summary statistics
print(f"\nTotal stations: {len(gdf)}")
print(f"Total available bikes: {gdf['available_bikes'].sum()}")
print(f"Total available stands: {gdf['available_bike_stands'].sum()}")

# Plot stations colored by availability
gdf.plot(figsize=(10, 8), column='available_bikes', legend=True, markersize=15, cmap='YlGn')