Board packet · transit data quality · checked 2026-10-31
Simi Valley Transit
Grade F · 57.0 / 100
Unchanged since 2026-10-30.
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:
Correct feed_end_date in feed_info.txt. Set it to 2030-12-31, the last day in your calendar, or to the last day your schedule is reliable.
feed_info.txt says this feed ends on 2023-06-01. Your service calendar runs to 2030-12-31. 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.
Estimated effort: One field in feed_info.txt, often an export setting.
Add the required column named in the finding to the flagged file.
A file is missing a column that GTFS requires. Apps may reject the whole file, so riders could lose the affected routes or stops.
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: Often an export setting; ask your vendor if it recurs.
Ask your AVL vendor to check that every vehicle assignment reaches TripUpdates. School-day and tripper runs are the ones most often left out.
6 of 6 trips scheduled during the sampling window had no live predictions. Riders on those trips get schedule times labeled as live. Caltrans asks that every trip you run shows up in TripUpdates.
This was measured over a realtime sampling window, so it has no feed-wide share.
Estimated effort: A vendor data-mapping question.
Riders and need behind these fixes
- No ridership snapshot was on hand when this was built, so annual rider-trips are not known.
- 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.
Trillium produces and hosts this feed as a service. These changes are made on their side: send the fix list to your Trillium contact and they apply it and republish.
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 2023-06-01. Your service calendar runs to 2030-12-31.
- Next action
- Correct feed_end_date in feed_info.txt. Set it to 2030-12-31, 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.
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- Feed evidence
- A file is missing a column that GTFS requires.
- Next action
- Add the required column named in the finding to the flagged file.
- 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
- 6 of 6 trips scheduled during the sampling window had no live predictions.
- Next action
- Ask your AVL vendor to check that every vehicle assignment reaches TripUpdates. School-day and tripper runs are the ones most often left 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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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/simi-valley-transit/. Rubric v1.4, validator 8.0.1.