Gold Coast Transit, South Coast Area Transit

What changed since the last check

• Correctness no change
• Freshness down 1.7
• Rider experience no change

Top three things to fix

1. Re-generate shape distances in your export; flag to your vendor if it persists.

   Some trips have stop times whose distances along the route go backwards. Apps can show buses jumping backwards or mis-order stops.

   Effort: Usually an export-tool fix, not hand editing.

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

   643 of 643 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.

   Effort: A column in stops.txt; your scheduling software likely has it.

3. Set wheelchair_accessible on every trip (most small-agency fleets are 100% accessible, so this is often a single default).

   1226 of 1226 trips don't say whether the vehicle is wheelchair accessible. Even with accessible stops, riders need to know the bus itself can take them.

   Effort: Often one default setting in your export.

   Agencies here usually clear this within about 1 week (based on 5 observed fixes).

NTD certification readiness: Needs attention

This feed is close to NTD-ready. 1 validator error to resolve.

Published Ready

Published at a public URL.

Valid Needs attention

1 validator error to resolve.

Current Ready

Service data covers the next 42 days.

agency_id and NTD ID: Not aligned. Your feed's agency_id is GCT; your National Transit Database ID is 90035. A feed that serves several agencies (a shared regional feed) can legitimately carry more than one agency_id, so a difference here is a heads-up, not an error. Optionally set the agency_id for your service to 90035 in agency.txt (and the matching agency_id in routes.txt) so the feed lines up with your NTD record. It is a convenience, not a required feed change: FTA also links agency_id to your NTD ID on your P-50 form.

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

http://www.goldcoasttransit.org/images/GTFS/GTFS.zip

Last checked

2026-07-09

Service window

30 days of service data remain. Last service date 2026-08-08.

State

California