Call-prep brief · checked 2026-09-05
Transport for NSW (Greater Sydney)
Grade F · 37.8 / 100
First check for this agency, so there is no trend yet.
For this call: lead with the grade and the three fixes below, then confirm the feed is current and the rider information is complete. Each fix is framed as a next step, not a failure.
What changed since the last check
No category changes since the last check.
Top three things to fix
Re-generate shape distances in your export; flag to your vendor if it persists.
Some trips have stop times whose distances along the route go backwards. Apps can show transit vehicles jumping backwards or mis-order stops.
Effort: Usually an export-tool fix, not hand editing.
Review the rule documentation for 'number_out_of_range' at https://gtfs-validator.mobilitydata.org/rules.html and check the flagged rows in your feed.
Number out of range (flagged by the MobilityData validator). See the linked rule for what this affects.
Effort: Varies.
Review the rule documentation for 'block_trips_with_overlapping_stop_times' at https://gtfs-validator.mobilitydata.org/rules.html and check the flagged rows in your feed.
Block trips with overlapping stop times (flagged by the MobilityData validator). See the linked rule for what this affects.
Effort: Varies.
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 trips have stop times whose distances along the route go backwards.
- Next action
- Re-generate shape distances in your export; flag to your vendor if it persists.
- 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
- Number out of range (flagged by the MobilityData validator).
- Next action
- Review the rule documentation for 'number_out_of_range' at https://gtfs-validator.mobilitydata.org/rules.html and check the flagged rows in your feed.
- 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
- Block trips with overlapping stop times (flagged by the MobilityData validator).
- Next action
- Review the rule documentation for 'block_trips_with_overlapping_stop_times' at https://gtfs-validator.mobilitydata.org/rules.html and check the flagged rows in your feed.
- 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
Key facts
- Feed URL
- https://opendata.transport.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/d1f68d4f-b778-44df-9823-cf2fa922e47f/resource/67974f14-01bf-47b7-bfa5-c7f2f8a950ca/download/full_greater_sydney_gtfs_static_0.zip
- Last checked
- 2026-09-05
- Service window
- 90 days of service data remain. Last service date 2026-12-04.
- Location
- New South Wales, Australia
A data-quality and completeness read to support an agency conversation. Not an official compliance determination. Rubric v1.3, validator 8.0.1.