Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) Rail

What changed since the last check

• Correctness no change
• Freshness down 1.7
• Rider experience no change
• Realtime quality up 0.6

No longer reported since the last check (1 finding):

• 1 of 30 trips scheduled during the sampling window had no live predictions. (scorecard_rt_trip_coverage)

This compares feed state. It does not identify who made a change or why.

Top three things to fix

1. Ask your AVL vendor to check vehicle-to-trip assignments for the flagged trips.

   47 of 134 sampled vehicle positions were far from their assigned route (worst: 32565 m). A transit vehicle shown off its route usually means a wrong trip assignment; riders watch their transit vehicle drive the wrong path.

   This was measured over a realtime sampling window, so it has no feed-wide share.

   Effort: A vendor support ticket with the trip ids attached.

2. Check the flagged stops' coordinates and the route shape in your scheduling software; re-snap whichever is misplaced.

   Some stops sit far from the route line they belong to. Trip planners may draw the transit vehicle route through the wrong path or point riders to the wrong boarding location.

   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.

   Effort: A few minutes per flagged stop.

3. Add feed_contact_email or feed_contact_url to feed_info.txt.

   feed_info.txt lists no contact email and no contact URL. Without a contact, apps like Google Maps can't reach you when they find a problem in the feed.

   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.

   Effort: One field, set once in export settings.

NTD GTFS readiness: Ready

Published at a public URL, valid, current, and identified with agency_id: the four feed checks for RY2026 all hold here. Only your own D-10 and P-50 filings make that official; this is a heads-up, not a determination.

Published Ready

Published at a public URL.

Valid Ready

Passes validation with no errors.

Current Ready

Service data covers the next 45 days.

agency_id provided Ready

agency.txt provides agency_id. For RY2026, keep one stable value for each NTD reporter represented in the feed and crosswalk each value on the P-50 form.

agency_id equals NTD ID (optional): Not checked yet. This feed provides agency_id. For RY2026, keep one stable value for each NTD reporter represented in the feed and crosswalk it on the P-50 form. The value does not need to equal the five-digit NTD ID; we do not have that ID on file, so the optional equality comparison is not checked yet.

Key facts

Feed URL

https://www3.septa.org/developer/google_rail.zip

Last checked

2026-10-07

Service window

45 days of service data remain. Last service date 2026-11-21.

Feed version

v202609271

Location

Pennsylvania