Board packet · transit data quality · checked 2026-08-01
Santa Ynez Valley Transit
Grade A · 96.5 / 100
Unchanged since 2026-07-31.
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:
Turn on shape cleanup in your export tool, or drop the repeated points from shapes.txt.
Some route lines list the same point twice in a row. Repeated points don't hurt riders, but they can skew distance math and hint at a shaky export.
Estimated effort: Usually one export setting.
Set trip_headsign to the trip's last stop or its overall destination.
Some trip headsigns name a stop along the way, not the final destination. The sign should tell riders where the bus ends up, so a midpoint name can send them the wrong way.
Estimated effort: Usually a bulk edit in your scheduling software.
Check the flagged column names for misspellings of standard GTFS fields; remove them if they are vendor extras.
Some files contain columns that are not part of the GTFS spec. Harmless to riders, but apps ignore these columns and they can hide typos in real column names.
Estimated effort: A quick look at the flagged files.
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 route lines list the same point twice in a row.
- Next action
- Turn on shape cleanup in your export tool, or drop the repeated points from shapes.txt.
- 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 trip headsigns name a stop along the way, not the final destination.
- Next action
- Set trip_headsign to the trip's last stop or its overall destination.
- 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 files contain columns that are not part of the GTFS spec.
- Next action
- Check the flagged column names for misspellings of standard GTFS fields; remove them if they are vendor extras.
- 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/santa-ynez-valley-transit/. Rubric v1.3, validator 8.0.1.