Vélib (a mix of 'vélo' and 'liberté' french words for 'bike' and 'freedom') is the Parisian public bike system.
Depending on the 'arrondissement' (district) you live in, it can be tricky to find a Vélib on the morning. Do Vélibs tend to migrate towards the center of Paris in the morning? Let's find out.
Do to so, I requested the necessary data to the Vélib API, available on : https://www.velib-metropole.fr/donnees-open-data-gbfs-du-service-velib-metropole
and organized the data in plots in order to visualize the Vélib flow throughout a normal week day with no particular event (extreme weather, strike, pandemic)
Here is the plot showing the variation of the number of available Vélibs per station between 8 and 10am, clearly proving the existence of a flux of Vélibs from the periphery to the city center.
