Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit Inc

What changed since the last check

• Correctness no change
• Freshness down 1.6
• Rider experience no change
• Realtime quality no change

Top three things to fix

1. Set wheelchair_boarding to 1 (accessible) or 2 (not accessible) for every stop. A field survey can start with the busiest stops.

   637 of 637 stops don't say whether a wheelchair user can board there. Riders who use wheelchairs can't plan a trip when accessibility is marked 'unknown'; apps show no information at all.

   Effort: A column in stops.txt; your scheduling software likely has it.

2. Set wheelchair_accessible on every trip (most small-agency fleets are 100% accessible, so this is often a single default).

   1375 of 1375 trips don't say whether the vehicle is wheelchair accessible. Even with accessible stops, riders need to know the bus itself can take them.

   Effort: Often one default setting in your export.

   Agencies here usually clear this within about 1 week (based on 5 observed fixes).

3. Review the rule documentation for 'route_long_name_contains_short_name' at https://gtfs-validator.mobilitydata.org/rules.html and check the flagged rows in your feed.

   Route long name contains short name (flagged by the MobilityData validator). See the linked rule for what this affects.

   Effort: Varies.

NTD certification readiness: Ready

This feed looks ready for your NTD certification: published at a public URL, valid, and current. The official check is still your D-10 certification.

Published Ready

Published at a public URL.

Valid Ready

Passes validation with no errors.

Current Ready

Service data covers the next 49 days.

agency_id and NTD ID: Not aligned. Your feed's agency_id is 0; your National Transit Database ID is 20145. A feed that serves several agencies (a shared regional feed) can legitimately carry more than one agency_id, so a difference here is a heads-up, not an error. Optionally set the agency_id for your service to 20145 in agency.txt (and the matching agency_id in routes.txt) so the feed lines up with your NTD record. It is a convenience, not a required feed change: FTA also links agency_id to your NTD ID on your P-50 form.

Key facts

Feed URL

https://s3.amazonaws.com/tcat-gtfs/tcat-ny-us.zip

Last checked

2026-07-09

Service window

37 days of service data remain. Last service date 2026-08-15.

Feed version

20260625

State

New York