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Bunkyo City Community Bus B-guru (文京区コミュニティバス「Bーぐる」)

Based on the official feed source on file

Service mode Bus

79.8 / 100

First scorecard for this agency

Catalogued in Tokyo, Japan.

Covers 482 daysAccessibility gapsRealtime not yet published

Bunkyo City's B-ぐる community bus. The archive is published under the operator, Hitachi Jidosha Kotsu (日立自動車交通株式会社), whose agency.txt and agency_url name the B-ぐる service; all three routes run in Bunkyo.

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Checked for changes 2 hours ago; last changed 2 hours ago.

Measured 3 of 4 score categories from the official feed URL on file.

How we measured this

Confidence in this measurement: medium.

  • Realtime quality was not measured this run. It does not count against the grade.
  • The feed was downloaded from the official feed URL on file.

Confidence describes how much the pipeline could measure this run, not the feed itself. It never changes the grade.

Top things to fix

Fix 01

Set wheelchair_boarding to 1 (accessible) or 2 (not accessible) for every stop. A field survey can start with the busiest stops.Likely your team

90 of 90 stops don't say whether a wheelchair user can board there. Riders who use wheelchairs can't plan a trip when accessibility is marked 'unknown'; apps show no information at all.

⏱ A column in stops.txt; your scheduling software likely has it.worth about +25 points in its category

Fix 02

Set wheelchair_accessible on every trip. If every vehicle is accessible, this may be one default; otherwise use the value for each trip.Likely your export tool

151 of 151 trips don't say whether the vehicle is wheelchair accessible. Even with accessible stops, riders need to know the bus itself can take them.

⏱ A default or per-trip field in your export.worth about +15 points in its category

Fix 03

Only change the flagged IDs if an app needs basic ASCII values. Update each place that uses the ID. Keep all names and headsigns in their original language.

Some internal IDs use characters outside the basic text set. These IDs are valid UTF-8 data. This warning is only about support in older apps. It does not mean that names in other languages are wrong.

⏱ A planned ID change, not a quick text cleanup.worth about +8 points in its category

Finding handoff

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Feed evidence
90 of 90 stops don't say whether a wheelchair user can board there.
Next action
Set wheelchair_boarding to 1 (accessible) or 2 (not accessible) for every stop. A field survey can start with the busiest stops.
Recheck
Publish the changed feed at the same URL. On the next complete, comparable scorecard run, confirm that this finding is no longer reported.
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How to make and check these changes

Check the result on the published feed. Read the guide, make the change in your tool, and use the next comparable run to see whether the finding is still reported. Only an action or ticket record can attribute who made the change.

  1. Set wheelchair_boarding to 1 (accessible) or 2 (not accessible) for every stop. A field survey can start with the busiest stops. · Read the fix guide

    Make the change. Make this change in whatever tool produces your feed, then re-export.

    Check the result. The next scorecard run checks this finding again. If a comparable check no longer reports it, the feed's clearance log records that result. This confirms feed state, not who made the change. Self-check a feed before you publish.

  2. Set wheelchair_accessible on every trip. If every vehicle is accessible, this may be one default; otherwise use the value for each trip. · Read the fix guide

    Make the change. Make this change in whatever tool produces your feed, then re-export.

    Check the result. The next scorecard run checks this finding again. If a comparable check no longer reports it, the feed's clearance log records that result. This confirms feed state, not who made the change. Self-check a feed before you publish.

  3. Only change the flagged IDs if an app needs basic ASCII values. Update each place that uses the ID. Keep all names and headsigns in their original language.

    Make the change. Make this change in whatever tool produces your feed, then re-export.

    Check the result. The next scorecard run checks this finding again. If a comparable check no longer reports it, the feed's clearance log records that result. This confirms feed state, not who made the change. Self-check a feed before you publish.

Rider view: what this feed publishes

A quick read of rider-facing information in this feed.

Schedule visibility
The feed's last published service date is in 482 days.
Published accessibility data
Accessibility information is stated for 0% of stops and 0% of trips. This measures published data, not whether stops or vehicles are physically usable.
Fare information
Fare information is published using GTFS Fares v1.
Realtime information
Realtime-feed availability and live-arrival coverage are not known from this scorecard.

Important: This does not rate service reliability. Riders should confirm current service alerts, fares, and accessibility accommodations with the transit operator before traveling.

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Score by category

Correctness82.5 / 100

The MobilityData validator flagged 5 kinds of issue across 5216 instances (0 error, 5212 warning, 4 informational).

Freshness100.0 / 100

Service data covers the next 482 days.

Rider experience59.8 / 100

0% of stops state wheelchair accessibility (0% marked accessible, 0% marked not accessible). This measures what the feed publishes, not whether a stop is physically usable. Fare data is published.

Accessibility0 / 100

0% of stops state accessibility (0% marked accessible). Reflects what the feed states, not verified physical usability.

1 accessibility depth signal

  • 2 route badge(s) pair a color and text color below the WCAG 4.5:1 contrast bar (千駄木・駒込ルート, 目白台・小日向ルート).

    Consider: Adjust route_color or route_text_color so each pair clears 4.5:1. Often switching the text between black and white is enough.

Opportunities to strengthen the data, not deductions from the sub-score above. States what the second accessibility lens can check from the feed, not verified physical usability.

FaresLegacy fares

Fares are applied to trips.

Realtime qualityNot yet measured

Not scored yet. Nothing here counts against the grade.

Routes and stops

Each route is drawn once, using the longest shape its trips follow; stops are the dots.

This feed has 90 stops.

Skip to route and stop data

The route and stop data is ready below. Load the map only when you want the geographic view. It uses additional data.

Basemap: OpenFreeMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors. Routes and stops: this agency's GTFS feed.

  • 千駄木・駒込ルート (orange)
  • 目白台・小日向ルート (red)
  • 本郷・湯島ルート (blue)
Routes in Bunkyo City Community Bus B-guru (文京区コミュニティバス「Bーぐる」)'s feed
RouteTypeLine color
千駄木・駒込ルートBusorange
目白台・小日向ルートBusred
本郷・湯島ルートBusblue
List every stop
  • ラクーア
  • 文京小石川クリニック(三田線春日駅)
  • 文化シヤッター前
  • クイーンズ伊勢丹小石川店前
  • 指ヶ谷小学校
  • 白山下
  • 白山駅
  • 白山上
  • 向丘一丁目
  • 向丘二丁目
  • 日本医大病院
  • 千駄木二丁目
  • 千駄木駅(団子坂下)
  • 特養ホーム千駄木の郷
  • 千駄木小学校
  • 駒込病院
  • 本駒込三丁目
  • 富士神社前
  • 昭和小学校(上富士前)
  • 六義園入口
  • 南北線駒込駅
  • 六義公園運動場入口
  • 本駒込六丁目
  • 千石駅
  • 特養ホーム白山の郷
  • 東洋大学前
  • 白山五丁目
  • 指ヶ谷小学校
  • 白山一丁目
  • 文化シヤッター前
  • 三田線春日駅
  • 文京シビックセンター(春日駅前)
  • 小石川後楽園入口
  • 後楽一丁目
  • 東京ドームホテル
  • ミーツポート
  • 小石川税務署
  • 後楽二丁目
  • TOPPANホール・印刷博物館
  • 水道二丁目
  • 文京総合福祉センター
  • 江戸川橋駅
  • 江戸川公園
  • 関口二丁目
  • ホテル椿山荘東京
  • 目白台一丁目
  • 目白台運動公園
  • 日本女子大前
  • 目白台二丁目
  • アカデミー音羽
  • 護国寺駅
  • 講談社前
  • 大塚二丁目
  • 跡見女子大西門前
  • 都営小日向二丁目アパート
  • 文京総合福祉センター
  • 小日向台町小学校
  • 小日向二丁目
  • 新大塚公園
  • 窪町小学校(竹添義之税理士事務所前)
  • 茗荷谷駅
  • 第一中学校
  • 胡蝶蘭専門店らんや(播磨坂)
  • 共同印刷
  • 小石川一丁目
  • こんにゃくえんま
  • 富坂下
  • 春日一丁目
  • 東洋学園大学前
  • 宇佐美本郷ビル前(壱岐坂上)
  • 湯島総合センター
  • 湯島四丁目
  • 消防署前通り
  • 順天堂病院前
  • 御茶ノ水駅前
  • 日大病院
  • 新御茶ノ水駅
  • 聖橋
  • 湯島一丁目
  • 東都文京病院入口
  • 湯島天神入口
  • 湯島駅
  • 上野松坂屋前
  • 天神下
  • 湯島駅
  • サミットストア湯島天神南店(湯島天神入口)
  • 湯島二丁目
  • 本郷二丁目
  • 菊坂通り
  • メレ・ド・ショコラ本店前(菊坂下)

Over time

This is the first scorecard for this agency. A trend and a "what changed" summary appear here once it has been checked more than once.

Everything we checked

7 findings, ordered by severity.

Show every finding
  • Warning5147 instances

    Some internal IDs use characters outside the basic text set.

    These IDs are valid UTF-8 data. This warning is only about support in older apps. It does not mean that names in other languages are wrong.

    Fix: Only change the flagged IDs if an app needs basic ASCII values. Update each place that uses the ID. Keep all names and headsigns in their original language. (A planned ID change, not a quick text cleanup.)

    Finding code: non_ascii_or_non_printable_char · See MobilityData GTFS Validator rules (opens the validator rules on an external site)

  • Warning151 instances

    151 of 151 trips don't say whether the vehicle is wheelchair accessible.

    Even with accessible stops, riders need to know the bus itself can take them.

    Fix: Set wheelchair_accessible on every trip. If every vehicle is accessible, this may be one default; otherwise use the value for each trip. (A default or per-trip field in your export.)

    Finding code: scorecard_wheelchair_accessible_unknown · Read the fix guide · See GTFS Schedule reference (opens the GTFS Schedule reference on an external site)

  • Warning90 instances

    90 of 90 stops don't say whether a wheelchair user can board there.

    Riders who use wheelchairs can't plan a trip when accessibility is marked 'unknown'; apps show no information at all.

    Fix: Set wheelchair_boarding to 1 (accessible) or 2 (not accessible) for every stop. A field survey can start with the busiest stops. (A column in stops.txt; your scheduling software likely has it.)

    Finding code: scorecard_wheelchair_boarding_unknown · Read the fix guide · See GTFS Schedule reference (opens the GTFS Schedule reference on an external site)

  • Warning65 instances

    Some rider-facing names are in ALL CAPS or all lowercase.

    ALL-CAPS stop and headsign names are harder to read in apps and are read awkwardly by screen readers.

    Fix: Use mixed case for stop names and headsigns (e.g. 'Main St & 2nd Ave', not 'MAIN ST & 2ND AVE'). (Often a bulk fix in your scheduling software.)

    Finding code: mixed_case_recommended_field · Read the fix guide · See MobilityData GTFS Validator rules (opens the validator rules on an external site)

  • Info2 instances

    The feed includes a file that is not part of the GTFS spec.

    Apps ignore files they don't know, and a stray file can hide a misspelled standard file name.

    Fix: Check the flagged file name for a typo of a standard GTFS file. Remove it if it is a vendor extra. (A quick look at the flagged file.)

    Finding code: unknown_file · Read the fix guide · See MobilityData GTFS Validator rules (opens the validator rules on an external site)

  • Info1 instance

    The feed has a stretch of two weeks or more with no service running.

    A long gap can mean dates were left out of the calendar. Apps then show no trips on those days.

    Fix: Check whether the gap is real, like a seasonal break; if not, add the missing dates to the calendar. (A review of your calendar dates.)

    Finding code: big_gap_in_service · Read the fix guide · See MobilityData GTFS Validator rules (opens the validator rules on an external site)

  • Info1 instance

    Some service dates fall outside the date window set in feed_info.txt.

    feed_info.txt should span every day your service runs, so apps know when the data applies.

    Fix: Widen feed_start_date and feed_end_date to cover all service dates, or fix the dates that fall outside. (Two fields in feed_info.txt, or one export setting.)

    Finding code: service_window_outside_feed_period · Read the fix guide · See MobilityData GTFS Validator rules (opens the validator rules on an external site)

Conformance mark Not yet

One requirement remains for this feed to earn the conformance mark. States wheelchair access on 0% of stops and 0% of trips; the mark needs 90% of each.

Valid Met
Passes validation with no errors.
Current Met
Service data covers the next 482 days.
Accessible Not yet
States wheelchair access on 0% of stops and 0% of trips; the mark needs 90% of each.

In plain words: earn this mark when your feed passes validation, has not expired, and says whether nearly every stop and trip is wheelchair accessible.

A pass credential for a feed that is valid, current, and states wheelchair access on nearly every stop and trip. Accessibility here measures what the feed publishes, not whether a stop is physically usable. How the conformance mark works.

Clears the Google and Apple Maps four-week coverage bar. This feed has 482 days of service ahead, clearing the four-week (28-day) window Maps asks for. No validator errors either, so riders keep seeing this agency in their trip planners; warnings lower the grade here but do not remove a feed from Maps.

How this agency maps to the standards

The scorecard is a data-quality lens, not a compliance determination. Its universal references describe good GTFS and useful rider information. Useful references here are GTFS Schedule Best Practices, GTFS-Realtime Best Practices, MobilityData grading scheme, Google Transit publication guidance. Read the full standards crosswalk.

Correctness 82 / 100
GTFS Schedule best practices, checked by the MobilityData validator. MobilityData grading covers stop locations, route names, and colors. Google Transit requires a feed to pass validation for publication.
Freshness 100 / 100
GTFS Schedule best practices call for a dataset that stays current. An expired calendar can remove service from Google Transit and other rider trip planners.
Rider experience 60 / 100
GTFS Best Practices for rider-facing fields. MobilityData grading covers stop names and headsigns.
Realtime quality Not yet published
GTFS-Realtime best practices: a stable URL, high uptime, and frequent updates.

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Bunkyo City Community Bus B-guru (文京区コミュニティバス「Bーぐる」) GTFS data quality grade: C

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