Call-prep brief · checked 2026-10-31
City of Tracy (TRACER)
Grade F · 34.7 / 100
Unchanged since 2026-10-30.
For this call: lead with the grade and the three fixes below, then confirm the feed is current and the NTD details line up. 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
- Realtime quality no change
Top three things to fix
Correct feed_end_date in feed_info.txt. Set it to 2022-09-30, the last day in your calendar, or to the last day your schedule is reliable.
feed_info.txt says this feed ends on 2022-07-31. Your service calendar runs to 2022-09-30. The GTFS standard tells apps to trust a feed only up to its end date. So apps may stop showing your service on the earlier date, even though the calendar goes on.
This one is about the feed as a whole, so there is no share of it to count.
Effort: One field in feed_info.txt, often an export setting.
Review the rule documentation for 'fare_transfer_rule_without_transfer_count' at https://gtfs-validator.mobilitydata.org/rules.html and check the flagged rows in your feed.
Fare transfer rule without transfer count (flagged by the MobilityData validator). See the linked rule for what this affects.
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: Varies.
Write every amount with the decimals its currency takes, and check that currency_type is the right ISO code.
A fare amount has the wrong number of decimals for its currency. Apps may reject the amount or show a price off by a factor of ten. US dollars take two decimals, so 2.5 is wrong where 2.50 is meant.
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 quick edit of the fare file.
Riders and need behind these fixes
- This feed carries no National Transit Database ID, so annual rider-trips are not known for it.
- California as a whole measures lower on transit need. That is a statewide reading, not one for this feed's service area. Source: US Census ACS 5-year 2022, statewide overlay, as of 2026-10-26.
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
- feed_info.txt says this feed ends on 2022-07-31. Your service calendar runs to 2022-09-30.
- Next action
- Correct feed_end_date in feed_info.txt. Set it to 2022-09-30, the last day in your calendar, or to the last day your schedule is reliable.
- 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
- Feed evidence
- Fare transfer rule without transfer count (flagged by the MobilityData validator).
- Next action
- Review the rule documentation for 'fare_transfer_rule_without_transfer_count' at https://gtfs-validator.mobilitydata.org/rules.html and check the flagged rows in your feed.
- 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
- Feed evidence
- A fare amount has the wrong number of decimals for its currency.
- Next action
- Write every amount with the decimals its currency takes, and check that currency_type is the right ISO code.
- 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
Ready to send to the agency
Hi City of Tracy (TRACER) team, feed_info.txt says this feed ends on 2022-07-31. Your service calendar runs to 2022-09-30. The GTFS standard tells apps to trust a feed only up to its end date. So apps may stop showing your service on the earlier date, even though the calendar goes on. The fix is usually one export setting: Correct feed_end_date in feed_info.txt. Set it to 2022-09-30, the last day in your calendar, or to the last day your schedule is reliable. Your feed is produced by Trillium, so the quickest path is usually forwarding this to your Trillium contact. This came from your GTFS data quality scorecard, which checks the feed you publish and lists the fixes in plain language: https://gtfsscorecard.org/agency/city-of-tracy-tracer/
NTD GTFS readiness: Not ready
Resolve this before you certify on the D-10. 5 validator errors to resolve. Service data expired 1553 days ago, so FTA would find the link out of date.
- Published Ready
- Published at a public URL.
- Valid Needs attention
- 5 validator errors to resolve.
- Current Not ready
- Service data expired 1553 days ago, so FTA would find the link out of date.
- agency_id provided Ready
- agency.txt provides agency_id. For RY2026, keep one stable value for each NTD reporter represented in the feed and crosswalk each value on the P-50 form.
agency_id equals NTD ID (optional): Not checked yet. This feed provides agency_id. For RY2026, keep one stable value for each NTD reporter represented in the feed and crosswalk it on the P-50 form. The value does not need to equal the five-digit NTD ID; we do not have that ID on file, so the optional equality comparison is not checked yet.
The bar this score answers to
The published guideline in California is California Transit Data Guidelines. Caltrans' published quality guidelines and compliance checklist; this rubric is anchored to them.
Key facts
- Feed URL
- https://data.trilliumtransit.com/gtfs/tracy-ca-us/tracy-ca-us.zip
- Last checked
- 2026-10-31
- Service window
- Feed has expired. Last service date 2022-09-30.
- Feed version
- UTC: 28-Sep-2021 20:17
- Location
- California
Part of the California 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.