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From personal experience the deal they make with the host city is usually a win-win (for the municipality and for the citizens). The experience is great, JCDeca
by zbrox 9y ago
From personal experience the deal they make with the host city is usually a win-win (for the municipality and for the citizens). The experience is great, JCDecaux gets to use some billboard locations, and the citizens get a dirt cheap public bike scheme. Here in Sweden it costs something like 8 euros per year. Yes, per year.
Another interesting thing is that they have a pretty OK API
https://developer.jcdecaux.com/#/opendata/vls?page=getstarted https://developer.jcdecaux.com/#/opendata/vls?page=getstarte...
- icebraining 9y agoOh, no argument there, I quite enjoyed using Villo, and it's really dirt cheap (not 8, but still just 30€). That said, and while it's probably built on top of that API, Brussels has an even better API: it lets you submit a geographical area (which you can design manually on their site) and get info on all stations inside it in a single request/response, and you don't even need registration: https://opendata.bruxelles.be/explore/dataset/stations-villo-disponibilites-en-temps-reel/api/ https://opendata.bruxelles.be/explore/dataset/stations-villo...