Board packet · transit data quality · checked 2026-08-02
Mountain Line Transit Authority
Grade B · 85.6 / 100
Unchanged since 2026-08-01.
What this grade measures
The quality of the schedule data this agency publishes for trip-planning apps: whether riders using Google Maps, Apple Maps, or Transit see current, correct, and complete information. It measures the data feed, not service quality or operations.
Progress this period
No newly cleared items this period. The score and trend above reflect where the feed stands today.
What needs attention next
Three improvements, in priority order, each sized so the board can see what it is approving:
Review the flagged fields and fill in the ones your riders would use.
Some files leave out fields that GTFS asks for but does not require. Recommended fields like agency_phone or stop descriptions make the feed more useful to riders and trip planners.
Estimated effort: A field at a time; not urgent.
Trim leading and trailing spaces on export. The scorecard's auto-fixed copy already does this.
Some values have extra spaces at the start or end. A stray space can break a match, so a stop or route may fail to link across files.
Estimated effort: Usually one export setting.
Check the stop order and the shape direction in your scheduling software; the shape is often drawn backwards.
On some trips the stops fall along the route line in a different order than the schedule lists. Trip planners can draw the bus doubling back or skipping ahead, which confuses riders reading the map.
Estimated effort: A few minutes per flagged trip.
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
- Some files leave out fields that GTFS asks for but does not require.
- Next action
- Review the flagged fields and fill in the ones your riders would use.
- 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
- Some values have extra spaces at the start or end.
- Next action
- Trim leading and trailing spaces on export. The scorecard's auto-fixed copy already does this.
- 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
- On some trips the stops fall along the route line in a different order than the schedule lists.
- Next action
- Check the stop order and the shape direction in your scheduling software; the shape is often drawn backwards.
- 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
Produced by the GTFS Scorecard, an open-source data quality tool. A data-quality read to support the board conversation, not an official compliance determination. Live scorecard: https://gtfsscorecard.org/agency/mountain-line-transit-authority/. Rubric v1.3, validator 8.0.1.