Board packet · transit data quality · checked 2026-10-31
Santa Barbara Metropolitan Transit District (MTD)
Grade B · 85.6 / 100
Down 0.4 points since 2026-10-30 (B to B).
What this grade measures
The quality of the schedule data in the feed scored here 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:
Re-export with a validity window that reaches at least 60 days out.
Service data runs out in 29 day(s). When the calendar runs out, trip planners stop showing this agency. Fixing it now is calmer than after riders notice.
This one is about the feed as a whole, so there is no share of it to count.
Estimated effort: One export setting.
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.
Estimated effort: A few minutes per flagged trip.
Trim past service periods the next time you export.
Many of the feed's trips don't run at all in the next 7 days. It usually means old service periods are still in the export, making the feed bigger and harder to check.
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.
Estimated effort: One setting in most export tools.
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
- Service data runs out in 29 day(s).
- Next action
- Re-export with a validity window that reaches at least 60 days out.
- 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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- Feed evidence
- Some scheduled trips move faster between stops than a bus can.
- Next action
- Check the flagged stop times for transposed minutes.
- 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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- Feed evidence
- Many of the feed's trips don't run at all in the next 7 days.
- Next action
- Trim past service periods the next time you export.
- 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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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/santa-barbara-metropolitan-transit-district-mtd/. Rubric v1.4, validator 8.0.1.