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🇫🇷 Paris

Plan Vélo Digital Infrastructure Mesh

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A network of permanent Eco-Compteur sensors on Paris cycle paths and bus lanes feeds hourly bike counts into the open Paris Data portal, published under the Open Database Licence on a rolling 13-month window and refreshed daily via the operator's API. Anyone can track how cycling has grown.

Live 📅 since 2021
Outcome🔄 Ongoing
Evidence🏛️ Officialgrades the sourcing — this entry states no impact figure
what does this mean?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 byVille de Paris
Scale🏙️ City-wide
🚲 MobilityCyclingPublic transportOpen dataSensors & IoT

Sources

↗ Paris Data — Comptage vélo, données compteurs (authority)Official open dataset: hourly counts over a rolling 13-month window, updated at J-1, loaded daily from partner Eco-Compteur's API.
↗ Paris Data — Comptage vélo, compteurs (authority)Official dataset listing and locating the permanent bike counters on cycle paths and bus lanes.
↗ Eco-Compteur (technology partner)Partner case study on Paris bike counting; cites +34% cycle-path use 2020-2024 under Plan Vélo 2021-2026.
Show your work What this page rests on and what it can’t tell you · all 6 claims with their sources · the forensic record

Evidence Passport · public beta 6 addressable claims, 3 source dossiers, one permanent baseline. The passport is unreviewed — an AI-assisted structural migration, not a human or expert endorsement. Every revision keeps a permanent copy under revision history.

Inspect the claims, one by one — verbatim text, sources and caveats for all 6

The text below is copied verbatim from the published record. Each claim names the source dossiers that carry it; caveats stay attached to the claim they qualify.

Claim 1 clm-4ac4744f7c22c042 descriptive
permanent Eco-Compteur sensors
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
The city's counter-location dataset states Paris has been deploying permanent bike counters for several years, loaded daily via partner Eco Compteur's API: 'La Ville de Paris déploie depuis plusieurs années des compteurs vélo permanents' and 'Ce jeu de données est chargé quotidiennement sur l'API de notre partenaire Eco Compteur.'
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Paris Data — Comptage vélo, compteurs (authority)
Claim 2 clm-44f228a567fa310c descriptive
on Paris cycle paths and bus lanes
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The counter-location dataset explicitly states counters sit on cycle paths and on some bus lanes open to bikes: 'Les compteurs sont situés sur des pistes cyclables et dans certains couloirs bus ouverts aux vélos.' This confirms the bus-lane placement the snippet claims — it is not a padded or invented detail.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Paris Data — Comptage vélo, compteurs (authority)
Claim 3 clm-470d927f898a46ae descriptive
feeds hourly bike counts into the open Paris Data portal
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The counts dataset is explicitly described as hourly per-counter bike counts, published on the city's own open data portal: 'Jeu de données des comptages horaires de vélos par compteur.'
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Paris Data — Comptage vélo, données compteurs (authority)
Claim 4 clm-8aeac2a7ee4242d7 quantitative
published under the Open Database Licence on a rolling 13-month window
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The dataset description states the data covers a rolling 13-month window, updated through the previous day: 'sur 13 mois glissants (J-13 mois), mis à jour à J-1.'
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Paris Data — Comptage vélo, données compteurs (authority)
Claim 5 clm-635c867e52c10071 descriptive
refreshed daily via the operator's API
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The dataset is loaded daily from technology partner Eco Compteur's API: 'Ce jeu de données est chargé quotidiennement sur l'API de notre partenaire Eco Compteur.' Paris Data itself also exposes its own public query API (used to confirm this dataset's metadata for this review), which is what lets outside users pull the data programmatically.
Caveat
The mechanism the source actually describes is the city loading data FROM the technology partner Eco-Compteur's API into its portal, not the city operator running its own ingestion API. 'The operator's API' more precisely matches Paris Data's separate public query interface, which does exist but is not the pipeline this note describes.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Paris Data — Comptage vélo, données compteurs (authority)
Claim 6 clm-fb696a42a543640c descriptive
Anyone can track how cycling has grown
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The city's counting dataset is public and machine-readable (confirmed by querying its own API for this review), so anyone can in principle derive a usage trend from it. The only actual growth figure tied to this counter network comes from the technology partner's own case study, which reports a rise in cycle-path traffic: 'la fréquentation des pistes cyclables progresse de 34% entre 2020 et 2024.' Neither Paris Data dataset description itself states or analyses a growth trend — the 'has grown' fact rests on the vendor case study alone.
Caveat
The growth figure is not published by the city; it comes from Eco-Compteur's own promotional case study of its work for Paris, so it should be read as vendor-reported, not independently verified. That page also carries a 'Publié le 10 avr. 2020' dateline while citing statistics from 2024 and June 2025, indicating it has been revised repeatedly without an updated date.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Paris Data — Comptage vélo, données compteurs (authority)
  2. Eco-Compteur (technology partner)
Forensic record — source dossiers, gaps, hashes and the exact revision this page renders

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unreviewed Revision 2026-08-22-evidence-baseline effective 2026-07-17 · created 2026-08-22

Awaiting operator and domain-expert review; publication of this revision implies neither.

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Revision history → Permanent version link → Machine-readable record → Evidence Constitution →
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Governance facts carried by the record

Operator
Ville de Paris
Actor types
city-government
Funding model
Not recorded
Funding description
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Cost
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Ownership
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Decision rights
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Exit conditions
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3 source dossiers

Paris Data — Comptage vélo, données compteurs (authority) opendata.paris.fr · 4 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-1b2ef36e5c6e6a72
Publisher
Name not classified · opendata.paris.fr
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
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Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-07-17
Dossier created
2026-08-22
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Official open dataset: hourly counts over a rolling 13-month window, updated at J-1, loaded daily from partner Eco-Compteur's API.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Paris Data — Comptage vélo, compteurs (authority) opendata.paris.fr · 2 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-4d5110ad6f75ff94
Publisher
Name not classified · opendata.paris.fr
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-07-17
Dossier created
2026-08-22
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Official dataset listing and locating the permanent bike counters on cycle paths and bus lanes.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Eco-Compteur (technology partner) eco-compteur.com · 1 linked claim

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-5000b5b39e961c0a
Publisher
Name not classified · eco-compteur.com
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-07-17
Dossier created
2026-08-22
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Partner case study on Paris bike counting; cites +34% cycle-path use 2020-2024 under Plan Vélo 2021-2026.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Known limits of this passport
  • Publisher names and source languages have not yet been classified; domains are recorded without guessing.
  • Existing source notes are descriptive locators, not page- or paragraph-exact citations.
  • A missing archive, publication date or content hash is shown as null rather than inferred.
  • The project-level evidence grade ranks the strongest source in the entry; it is not a truth score for every claim.

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Compare this project

🇩🇪 Urban Spatial 3D Digital Twin Platform · Munich Two European cities digitising cycling: Paris counts real bike trips hourly (2021–); Munich models every bike lane in its 3D twin. 🇺🇸 Array of Things · Chicago Kindred open-data street-sensor networks: Paris's bike counters still publish hourly; Chicago's pole array ran 2016–21. 🇳🇵 Kathmandu Metropolitan Air Quality Monitoring Dashboard · Kathmandu Two city-run open-data sensor dashboards: Paris publishes hourly bike counts (2021–); Kathmandu live PM2.5 by location (2025–).

Four cities count cyclists. Only one of them gives the count back.

Counting bicycles is the easy part, and every one of these does it well. The ladder runs from a number nobody acts on to a signal plan that hands the cyclist the green light.

ProjectSinceStatusOutcomeEvidenceRun byCostWhat happens to the count
Plan Vélo Digital Infrastructure MeshParis, 🇫🇷 2021 Live Ongoing Official City government not public Published. Permanent counters feed hourly totals into the open data portal on a rolling window, so anyone can audit whether the new lanes moved anything.
Vivacity AI Traffic-Sensor NetworkLondon, 🇬🇧 2018 Live Ongoing Official City government, Private company not public Classified on the device and the video thrown away — a deliberate privacy design, and a count split across two dozen boroughs that each bought their own.
Traffic Pilot — City-Wide Signal PredictionFrankfurt am Main, 🇩🇪 2022 Live Ongoing Official City government not public Handed back as advice: the app reads live signal phases and tells the rider what speed catches the green wave.
Green Wave for Cyclists (Grøn Bølge)Copenhagen, 🇩🇰 2007 Live Succeeded Official City government not public Built into the signal plan itself. The lights are timed to the cyclist rather than the cyclist to the lights — and the buses on those streets wait for it.

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🔑 Your Smart City Is Owned by Someone Else🚲 Cycling guide🏙️ Paris city profile🚲 Mobility projects📖 Geofencing📖 GTFS (General Transit Feed Specification)📖 Open data
📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Plan Vélo Digital Infrastructure Mesh” — Paris, France. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/paris-bike-telemetry/ (last verified 2026-07-17). Data: CC BY 4.0.

The underlying data is free to reuse with attribution — see the open data page.

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