Call-prep brief · checked 2026-10-12

Dublin Bus (Transport for Ireland)

Grade B · 81.6 / 100

Unchanged since 2026-10-11.

For this call: lead with the grade and the three fixes below, then confirm the feed is current and the rider information is complete. Each fix is framed as a next step, not a failure.

What changed since the last check

Correctness no change
Freshness no change
Rider experience no change

Top three things to fix

Set wheelchair_accessible on every trip. If every vehicle is accessible, this may be one default; otherwise use the value for each trip.
79266 of 79266 trips don't say whether the vehicle is wheelchair accessible. Even with accessible stops, riders need to know the bus itself can take them.
Fixing this covers all 79,266 trips in the feed.
Effort: A default or per-trip field in your export.
Add fare_attributes.txt (or Fares v2 files) with your fare structure. If your service is fare-free, ask to have it marked fare-free instead.
The feed contains no fare information. Riders see 'fare unknown' in trip planners and can't budget their trip; visitors are most affected.
This one is about the feed as a whole, so there is no share of it to count.
Effort: A small file for most flat-fare systems.
Check the flagged stop times for transposed minutes.
Some scheduled trips move faster between stops than a bus can. Usually a typo'd stop time; riders get arrival times no bus can meet.
This is a validator notice, and the validator decides what each instance covers, so no share of the network can be read from it here.
Effort: A few minutes per flagged trip.

Riders and need behind these fixes

Rider-trip figures come from the United States National Transit Database, which does not cover this feed's country.
The served-area need overlays cover the United States and Canada, so none of them applies to this feed.

These describe this feed only. They do not rank agencies, and they do not change the grade or the order of the fixes.

Finding handoff

Move one finding to a recheck

Select one finding. Copy the request, make the change in the feed-producing tool, then compare the next complete run.

Feed evidence: 79266 of 79266 trips don't say whether the vehicle is wheelchair accessible.
Next action: Set wheelchair_accessible on every trip. If every vehicle is accessible, this may be one default; otherwise use the value for each trip.
Recheck: Publish the changed feed at the same URL. On the next complete, comparable scorecard run, confirm that this finding is no longer reported.

Copy handoff text

Agency: Dublin Bus (Transport for Ireland)
Finding: scorecard_wheelchair_accessible_unknown
Feed evidence: 79266 of 79266 trips don't say whether the vehicle is wheelchair accessible.
Why it matters: Even with accessible stops, riders need to know the bus itself can take them.
Requested change: Set wheelchair_accessible on every trip. If every vehicle is accessible, this may be one default; otherwise use the value for each trip.
Recheck: Publish the changed feed at the same URL. On the next complete, comparable scorecard run, confirm that this finding is no longer reported.
Evidence: https://gtfsscorecard.org/agency/dublin-bus/?finding=scorecard_wheelchair_accessible_unknown#finding-handoff

Key facts

Feed URL: https://www.transportforireland.ie/transitData/Data/GTFS_Dublin_Bus.zip
Last checked: 2026-10-12
Service window: 96 days of service data remain. Last service date 2027-01-16.
Feed version: FDA5015B-F6ED-461F-89AC-4F47070881A0
Location: Dublin, Ireland

Part of the Ireland portfolio: see where this agency sits among the other feeds in that group before the call.

A data-quality and completeness read to support an agency conversation. Not an official compliance determination. Rubric v1.4, validator 8.0.1.