Feed status · checked 2026-10-27
Unitrans (ASUCD / City of Davis)
Based on the feed source on file; publisher ownership is not verified
Service mode Bus
unchanged since 2026-10-26
Cataloged in California.
Source feed: https://unitrans.ucdavis.edu/media/gtfs/Unitrans_GTFS.zip
A data-quality and completeness lens to help an agency improve its GTFS feed. Not an official compliance determination from any transit program. New to this? How to read your scorecard. Interactive view of this scorecard. Rubric v1.4, validator 8.0.1.
Checked for changes 2 hours ago; last changed 3 days ago.
Measured 3 of 4 score categories from the feed URL on file (publisher not verified).
How we measured this
Confidence in this measurement: medium.
- Realtime quality was not measured this run. It does not count against the grade.
- The feed was downloaded from the configured feed URL. Publisher ownership of that URL is not verified.
Confidence describes how much the pipeline could measure this run, not the feed itself. It never changes the grade.
About this feed
Unitrans (ASUCD / City of Davis)’s published feed lists 24 bus routes, 6,680 scheduled trips and 296 stops. Its service dates run from 2026-10-23 through 2027-01-03. The published file last changed on 2026-10-24.
Top things to fix
Set wheelchair_boarding to 1 (accessible) or 2 (not accessible) for every stop. A field survey can start with the busiest stops.Likely your team
296 of 296 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.
Fixing this covers all 296 stops in the feed.
⏱ A column in stops.txt; your scheduling software likely has it.worth about +25 points in its category
Set wheelchair_accessible on every trip. If every vehicle is accessible, this may be one default; otherwise use the value for each trip.Likely your export tool
6680 of 6680 trips don't say whether the vehicle is wheelchair accessible. Even with accessible stops, riders need to know the bus itself can take them.
Fixing this covers all 6,680 trips in the feed.
⏱ A default or per-trip field in your export.worth about +15 points in its category
Turn on 'remove unused shapes' (or the like) in your export tool.Likely your export tool
The feed contains route shapes no trip uses. Harmless to riders, but it bloats the feed and suggests stale export data.
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.
⏱ One setting.worth about +8 points in its category
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.
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.
- Finding
- Fix 01 in Top things to fix: its feed evidence and the requested change.
- 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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- Finding
- Fix 02 in Top things to fix: its feed evidence and the requested change.
- 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
- Finding
- Fix 03 in Top things to fix: its feed evidence and the requested change.
- 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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How to make and check these changes
Check the result on the published feed. Read the guide, make the change in your tool, and use the next comparable run to see whether the finding is still reported. Only an action or ticket record can attribute who made the change.
Fix 01 · Read the fix guide for scorecard_wheelchair_boarding_unknown
Make the change. Make this change in whatever tool produces your feed, then re-export.
Check the result. The next scorecard run checks this finding again. If a comparable check no longer reports it, the feed's clearance log records that result. This confirms feed state, not who made the change. See this feed's finding-clearance log.
Fix 02 · Read the fix guide for scorecard_wheelchair_accessible_unknown
Make the change. Make this change in whatever tool produces your feed, then re-export.
Check the result. The next scorecard run checks this finding again. If a comparable check no longer reports it, the feed's clearance log records that result. This confirms feed state, not who made the change. See this feed's finding-clearance log.
Fix 03 · Read the fix guide for unused_shape
Make the change. Make this change in whatever tool produces your feed, then re-export.
Check the result. The next scorecard run checks this finding again. If a comparable check no longer reports it, the feed's clearance log records that result. This confirms feed state, not who made the change. See this feed's finding-clearance log.
Rider view: what this feed publishes
A quick read of rider-facing information in this feed.
- Schedule visibility
- The feed's last published service date is in 68 days.
- Published accessibility data
- Accessibility information is stated for 0% of stops and 0% of trips. This measures published data, not whether stops or vehicles are physically usable.
- Fare information
- Fare information is published using GTFS Fares v2.
- Realtime information
- Realtime-feed availability and live-arrival coverage are not known from this scorecard.
Important: This does not rate service reliability. Riders should confirm current service alerts, fares, and accessibility accommodations with the transit operator before traveling.
Send your vendor a fix request
You may not control the GTFS export yourself. Copy this and send it to whoever runs your scheduling software export. It names each fix with the validator notice and a guide link.
Score by category
The MobilityData validator flagged 5 kinds of issue across 123 instances (0 error, 100 warning, 23 informational).
Service data covers the next 68 days.
0% of stops state wheelchair accessibility (0% marked accessible, 0% marked not accessible). This measures what the feed publishes, not whether a stop is physically usable. Fare data is published.
0% of stops state accessibility (0% marked accessible). Reflects what the feed states, not verified physical usability.
2 accessibility depth signals
15 route badge(s) pair a color and text color below the WCAG 4.5:1 contrast bar (A, AIR, C, E, FMS, and more).
Consider: Adjust route_color or route_text_color so each pair clears 4.5:1. Often switching the text between black and white is enough.
121 stop name(s) use abbreviations or symbols a screen reader may mispronounce, with no spoken form set ("Hutchison at Old Davis / Pitzer Center (EB)", "Hutchison at Old Davis / Sproul Hall (WB)", "1st at C / Downtown (EB)", and more).
Consider: Add tts_stop_name with the spoken form, e.g. 'Main Street and Second Avenue', for the affected stops.
Opportunities to strengthen the data, not deductions from the sub-score above. States what the second accessibility lens can check from the feed, not verified physical usability.
Fares are applied to trips.
Unitrans runs live tracking through Swiftly, but no public GTFS-Realtime endpoint is documented. Realtime remains unmeasured and does not count against the grade.
Routes and stops
Each route is drawn once, using the longest shape its trips follow; stops are the dots.
This feed has 296 stops.
The route and stop data is ready below. Load the map only when you want the geographic view. It uses additional data.
Basemap: OpenFreeMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors. Routes and stops: this agency's GTFS feed.
- A (yellow)
- AIR (red)
- B (green)
- C (pink)
- D (blue)
- E (gray)
- F (purple)
- FMS (red)
- G (teal)
- J (orange)
- K (teal)
- L (orange)
- M (red)
- O (purple)
- P (red)
- Q (red)
- R (brown)
- T (pink)
- U (gray)
- V (gray)
- VL (gray)
- VX (green)
- W (teal)
- Z (teal)
| Route | Type | Line color |
|---|---|---|
| A Amtrak/5th Street/El Cemonte | Bus | yellow |
| AIR Unitrans SMF Airport Shuttle | Bus | red |
| B Sycamore/Trader Joe's/Marketplace | Bus | green |
| C Wake Forest/Cuarto/Trader Joe's | Bus | pink |
| D Lake/Arlington | Bus | blue |
| E F St./J St. | Bus | gray |
| F Oak/Catalina/14th St. | Bus | purple |
| FMS Farmers Market Shuttle | Bus | red |
| G Anderson/Alvarado/N Sycamore/MU Terminal | Bus | teal |
| J Anderson/Alvarado/N Sycamore/Silo Terminal | Bus | orange |
| K Cuarto/Lake/Arlington/Arthur | Bus | teal |
| L E. 8th St./Pole Line/Moore/Loyola | Bus | orange |
| M 1st St./Cowell/Drew | Bus | red |
| O Amtrak/5th St./8th St./Target | Bus | purple |
| P Davis Perimeter Counter Clockwise | Bus | red |
| Q Davis Perimeter Clockwise | Bus | red |
| R Anderson/Alvarado | Bus | brown |
| T Southeast Davis/Pioneer/Harper Jr. High/Davis High | Bus | pink |
| U Cuarto/Sage/Sol/The Green | Bus | gray |
| V Sage/Sol/The Green | Bus | gray |
| VL West Village/Sage/Sol | Bus | gray |
| VX West Village/The Green | Bus | green |
| W 1st St./Cowell/Lillard | Bus | teal |
| Z Amtrak/5th St./Target | Bus | teal |
List every stop
- Hutchison at Old Davis / Pitzer Center (EB)
- Hutchison at Old Davis / Sproul Hall (WB)
- 1st at C / Downtown (EB)
- 1st at D / Downtown (WB)
- Richards at Olive (EB)
- 2nd at B (EB)
- C at 1st (SB)
- 2nd at E / Downtown (EB)
- Russell at A / City Hall (WB)
- 2nd at E / Downtown (WB)
- F at 6th / Davis Food Co-op (SB)
- H at 2nd / Amtrak (NB)
- H at 2nd / Amtrak (SB)
- B at 4th / Central Park (NB)
- B at 4th / Central Park (SB)
- 3rd at C (WB)
- 3rd at C (EB)
- 3rd at E / Downtown (WB)
- 3rd at E / Downtown (EB)
- F at 4th (SB)
- F at 4th (NB)
- Russell at A / City Hall (WB)
- B at 5th / City Hall (NB)
- B at 7th / MLK Jr. High (SB)
- B at 7th / MLK Jr. High (NB)
- 5th at D / Downtown (WB)
- 5th at D / Downtown (EB)
- F at 6th / Co-op (NB)
- 5th at G (EB)
- 5th at I (WB)
- 3rd at K (WB)
- 3rd at K (EB)
- L at 4th (SB)
- L at 4th (NB)
- Cowell at Research Park (WB)
- Cowell at Research Park / Tanglewood (EB)
- Cowell at Drew / Kaiser (WB)
- Cowell at Drew / Kaiser (EB)
- Cowell at Valdora / Safeway (WB)
- Pole Line at Safeway (SB)
- Pole Line at Halsey / Safeway (NB)
- Cowell at Valdora / Safeway (EB)
- Lillard at Farragut (WB)
- Lillard at Evans (WB)
- Pole Line at Diameter / Rancho Yolo (NB)
- Cowell at Halsey (SB)
- Drummond at Lillard (SB)
- Drummond at Cowell / New Harmony (SB)
- Cowell at Drummond (EB)
- Cowell at Chiles (WB)
- Cowell at Axis (SB)
- Cowell at Ohlone (WB)
- Cowell at Ohlone (EB)
- Cowell at La Vida / The Edge (WB)
- Cowell at La Vida / The Edge (EB)
- Cowell at Ensenada (WB)
- Cowell at Ensenada (EB)
- Cowell at Sunrise / Meadow Ridge (EB)
- Cowell at Sunrise / Meadow Ridge (WB)
- Mace at Cowell / Nugget Market (SB)
- Mace at Cowell / Nugget Market (NB)
- Chiles at Mace (EB)
- El Cemonte at Glide / Ellington (SB)
- Cowell at El Cemonte (WB)
- Cowell at Mace / El Macero (WB)
- Alhambra at Mace (WB)
- Alhambra at Mace / Alhambra Apts (EB)
- Alhambra at Fifth (EB)
- 5th at Verona (SB)
- 5th at Walnut Terrace (WB)
- 5th at Windmere (EB)
- 5th at San Rafael (WB)
- 5th at Cantrill / Greystone (WB)
- 5th at Cantrill / Police Station (EB)
- 5th at Sterling / Post Office (WB)
- 5th at Sterling / Post Office (EB)
- 5th at Pole Line / DMV (EB)
- 5th at Pole Line / DMV (WB)
- 5th at Public Works Corp Yard (WB)
- Covell at Alhambra (EB)
- Pole Line at Diameter / Cambridge House (SB)
- Monarch at Campbell (SB)
- Temple at Balsam (WB)
- Tulip at Cascade (SB)
- Loyola at Whittier (WB)
- Loyola at Nutmeg (WB)
- Loyola at East Regis (WB)
- Pole Line at Covell / Nugget Market (NB)
- Pole Line at 8th (NB)
- Covell at Pole Line / Nugget Market (EB)
- Covell at J / Cannery (WB)
- Covell at J / Cannery (EB)
- J at Cranbrook (SB)
- J at Drexel / Holmes Jr High (NB)
- J at Alice / The Spoke (SB)
- 8th at Chestnut / Grocery Outlet (EB)
- 8th at Chestnut / Grocery Outlet (WB)
- 8th at L (EB)
- 8th at L / Da Vinci Charter Academy (WB)
- Pole Line at Picasso (NB)
- Catalina at Anza (NB)
- Catalina at Grande (NB)
- Catalina at Anderson (NB)
- 8th at J / The Spoke (WB)
- 8th at J / The Spoke (EB)
- F at Covell / Community Park (NB)
- F at Covell / Community Park (SB)
- 14th at F / Parkside (WB)
- F at 14th / Parkside (NB)
- F at 12th / Academy Lane (NB)
- F at 8th / Woodside (NB)
- 8th at G (WB)
- 8th at G (EB)
- 8th at D / Viking (WB)
- 8th at D / Viking (EB)
- F at Eighth
- 14th at B / Library (WB)
- 14th at B / Library (EB)
- 14th at Davis High (WB)
- Catalina at Alvarado (NB)
- F at Grande (SB)
- Anderson at Sandpiper (EB)
- Anderson at Oriole (NB)
- Anderson at Valencia (NB)
- Anderson at Bianco (NB)
- Alvarado at Anderson / Casitas (WB)
- Alvarado at Espana (WB)
- Alvarado at Anderson / Chautauqua (WB)
- Alvarado at Anderson / LaSalle (EB)
- Alvarado at Sycamore / Fountain Circle (WB)
- Alvarado at Sycamore / Almondwood (EB)
- Sycamore at The Marketplace (SB)
- Sycamore at The Marketplace (NB)
- Sycamore at Antelope (NB)
- Sycamore at Antelope / Luma (SB)
- Sycamore at Chaparral (SB)
- North Sycamore Loop (NB)
- Oak at Covell (NB)
- 14th at Oak / Davis High (EB)
- 14th at Oak (WB)
- Oak at 14th (SB)
- Villanova at Reed (WB)
- Villanova at Anderson (EB)
- Sycamore at Drake (NB)
- Sycamore at Alvarado / Almondwood (SB)
- Anderson at Villanova (NB)
- Anderson at Hanover / Save Mart (NB)
- Anderson at Hanover / Save Mart (SB)
- Anderson at Villanova (SB)
- Anderson at Amherst (NB)
- Anderson at Amherst (SB)
- Anderson at Russell / The Davis Collection (SB)
- Anderson at Russell / The Davis Collection (NB)
- Oak at Antioch (NB)
- Oak at Antioch (SB)
- Oak at 8th (NB)
- Oak at 8th (SB)
- Oak at Russell (NB)
- Oak at Russell (SB)
- Memorial Union Terminal & Howard Way
- Hutchison at Shields Library (WB)
- Hutchison at Art Building (EB)
- Cowell at Mace (EB)
- Hutchison Drive & Bioletti Way
- Lillard at Evans (EB)
- La Rue at Orchard / ARC (NB)
- La Rue at Blue Ridge / Student Health & Wellness Center
- Russell at Sycamore / Trader Joe's (EB)
- Russell at Sycamore / Cuarto (WB)
- Sycamore at Russell / Trader Joe's (SB)
- Wake Forest at Cuarto (EB)
- Wake Forest at 8th (SB)
- 8th at Sycamore (WB)
- Sycamore at 8th (NB)
- Sycamore at Villanova (NB)
- Sycamore at Colby (SB)
- Sycamore at Bucknell (NB)
- Sycamore at Cornell (NB)
- Sycamore at Cornell (SB)
- Sycamore at Radcliffe (NB)
- Sycamore at Notre Dame (SB)
- Apple at Radcliffe (NB)
- Drake Apartments (WB)
- Sycamore at Drake (SB)
- Covell at Sycamore / The Marketplace (WB)
- Covell at Sycamore / The Marketplace (EB)
- Covell at Shasta / Sutter Hospital (EB)
- Covell at John Jones / Sutter Hospital (WB)
- Covell at Shasta (WB)
- Covell at Denali / Glacier Point (EB)
- Covell at UC Davis Medical Group (EB)
- Lake at Covell / The Willows (SB)
- Lake at Covell / The Willows (NB)
- Lake at Oyster Bay (SB)
- Lake at Oyster Bay (NB)
- Arlington at Lake / Westlake Plaza (WB)
- Arlington at Lake / Westlake Plaza (EB)
- Arlington at Cabot (WB)
- Arlington at Cabot (EB)
- Arlington at Shasta (EB)
- Arlington at Shasta (WB)
- Humboldt at Imperial / Emerson Jr High (EB)
- Humboldt at Arthur (EB)
- Arthur at North Adams (SB)
- Arthur at Alameda (SB)
- Arlington at Westernesse / Emerson Jr High (SB)
- Arlington at Bucklebury (SB)
- Russell at Arthur (WB)
- Lake at Portage Bay (NB)
- Lake at Salem (NB)
- Lake at Westlake Plaza (NB)
- Russell at Arlington Farm (WB)
- Sycamore at Russell / Trader Joe's (NB)
- J at Eighth (SB)
- 5th at Pena (EB)
- Alhambra at Arroyo (EB)
- Alhambra at Caricia (WB)
- 5th at Spafford (EB)
- 5th at Spafford (WB)
- Hutchison at Health Sciences (EB)
- Richards at Olive (WB)
- Mace at 2nd (SB)
- Mace at 2nd (NB)
- Covell at Harper Jr High (EB)
- Moore at Pole Line (EB)
- Moore at Pollock (EB)
- Lillard at Arnold / Renaissance Park (EB)
- Drummond at Albany
- Silo at Main Island (WB)
- Silo at Main Island (EB)
- Silo at Haring Hall (WB)
- Pole Line at Donner (NB)
- Moore at Raphael (EB)
- 2nd at Faraday (WB)
- Dairy at La Rue (SB)
- Memorial Union at Main Island (NB)
- Memorial Union at Main Island (SB)
- Memorial Union at East Island (SB)
- Pole Line at Wahl (SB)
- 8th at Pole Line (WB)
- 2nd at Target (SB)
- Pena at 2nd (NB)
- Dairy at Tercero (SB)
- Hutchison at Sage / Ramble (NB)
- Hutchison at Sage / Ramble (SB)
- Sage at Jade / The Village Green (NB)
- Sage at Jade / Sacramento City College (SB)
- Alhambra at Loyola / Korematsu Elementary (NB)
- Alhambra at Loyola / Korematsu Elementary (SB)
- Sycamore at 8th (SB)
- and 46 more (see the full list on the map or in the GeoJSON)
Over time
Overall score across the last 26 checks — unchanged since 2026-10-26.
Show the numbers
| Check | Score | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-02 | 76.7 | first check |
| 2026-10-03 | 76.7 | no change |
| 2026-10-04 | 76.7 | no change |
| 2026-10-05 | 76.7 | no change |
| 2026-10-06 | 76.7 | no change |
| 2026-10-07 | 76.7 | no change |
| 2026-10-08 | 76.7 | no change |
| 2026-10-09 | 76.7 | no change |
| 2026-10-10 | 76.7 | no change |
| 2026-10-11 | 76.7 | no change |
| 2026-10-12 | 76.7 | no change |
| 2026-10-13 | 76.7 | no change |
| 2026-10-14 | 76.7 | no change |
| 2026-10-15 | 76.3 | down 0.4 |
| 2026-10-16 | 75.8 | down 0.5 |
| 2026-10-17 | 75.4 | down 0.4 |
| 2026-10-18 | 75.0 | down 0.4 |
| 2026-10-19 | 74.6 | down 0.4 |
| 2026-10-20 | 74.2 | down 0.4 |
| 2026-10-21 | 73.8 | down 0.4 |
| 2026-10-22 | 73.3 | down 0.5 |
| 2026-10-23 | 72.9 | down 0.4 |
| 2026-10-24 | 76.7 | up 3.8 |
| 2026-10-25 | 76.7 | no change |
| 2026-10-26 | 76.7 | no change |
| 2026-10-27 | 76.7 | no change |
What changed since your last check
- Correctness no change
- Freshness no change
- Rider experience no change
Feed history
Every check on record for this feed, grouped by the published file, newest first. A new file means the published zip changed. Grades from earlier rubric versions are shown with their rubric and are not comparable with today’s grade or the trend above.
| Checked | Published file | Service dates through | Grade at the time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-24 to 2026-10-27 (4 checks) | 1d73120ea8a6 | 2027-01-03 | Current rubric: see the trend above |
| 2026-10-06 to 2026-10-23 (18 checks) | a5dd6579a68b | 2026-12-13 | Current rubric: see the trend above |
| 2026-10-02 to 2026-10-05 (4 checks) | 57f0ae4652fe | 2026-12-13 | Current rubric: see the trend above |
| 2026-09-24 to 2026-10-01 (8 checks) | 57f0ae4652fe | 2026-12-13 | C, 76.7 under rubric 1.3, an earlier scoring contract; not comparable with today’s grade |
| 2026-09-18 to 2026-09-23 (6 checks) | 0a0d766043d1 | 2026-12-13 | C, 74.9 under rubric 1.3, an earlier scoring contract; not comparable with today’s grade |
| 2026-09-11 to 2026-09-13 (3 checks) | 4a0bb12266df | 2026-12-13 | C, 74.7 under rubric 1.3, an earlier scoring contract; not comparable with today’s grade |
| 2026-09-03 to 2026-09-10 (8 checks) | 1adcb1c98a59 | 2026-12-13 | C, 74.9 under rubric 1.3, an earlier scoring contract; not comparable with today’s grade |
| 2026-08-07 to 2026-09-02 (27 checks) | feedadf11434 | 2026-09-22 | D, 61.8 under rubric 1.3, an earlier scoring contract; not comparable with today’s grade |
| 2026-08-04 to 2026-08-06 (3 checks) | a36be4a77d18 | 2026-09-22 | C, 75.6 under rubric 1.3, an earlier scoring contract; not comparable with today’s grade |
| 2026-07-26 to 2026-08-03 (9 checks) | 35fcb4446426 | 2026-09-22 | C, 76.7 under rubric 1.3, an earlier scoring contract; not comparable with today’s grade |
| 2026-07-25 | 55cc025b4d54 | 2026-09-22 | B, 80.4 under rubric 1.3, an earlier scoring contract; not comparable with today’s grade |
| 2026-07-23 to 2026-07-24 (2 checks) | 55cc025b4d54 | 2026-09-22 | B, 80.8 under rubric 1.2, an earlier scoring contract; not comparable with today’s grade |
Showing the 12 most recent of 15 periods.
What changed in this feed
Overall grade and score held steady since 2026-10-26.
Same feed file as 2026-10-26; the published zip did not change.
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What changed over time
On 2026-10-02 this feed started at grade C. On 2026-10-27 the grade held steady. As of 2026-10-27 it holds grade C.
A plain-language history of this feed, newest first.
- 2026-10-24 Score rose 4 points, freshness rose 15 points.
Everything we checked
7 findings, ordered by severity.
Show every finding
- Warning6680 instances
6680 of 6680 trips don't say whether the vehicle is wheelchair accessible.
Even with accessible stops, riders need to know the bus itself can take them.
Fix: Set wheelchair_accessible on every trip. If every vehicle is accessible, this may be one default; otherwise use the value for each trip. (A default or per-trip field in your export.)
Finding code: scorecard_wheelchair_accessible_unknown · Read the fix guide for scorecard_wheelchair_accessible_unknown · See GTFS Schedule reference (opens the GTFS Schedule reference on an external site)
- Warning296 instances
296 of 296 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.
Fix: Set wheelchair_boarding to 1 (accessible) or 2 (not accessible) for every stop. A field survey can start with the busiest stops. (A column in stops.txt; your scheduling software likely has it.)
Finding code: scorecard_wheelchair_boarding_unknown · Read the fix guide for scorecard_wheelchair_boarding_unknown · See GTFS Schedule reference (opens the GTFS Schedule reference on an external site)
- Warning63 instances
The feed contains route shapes no trip uses.
Harmless to riders, but it bloats the feed and suggests stale export data.
Fix: Turn on 'remove unused shapes' (or the like) in your export tool. (One setting.)
Finding code: unused_shape · Read the fix guide for unused_shape · See MobilityData GTFS Validator rules (opens the validator rules on an external site)
- Warning19 instances
Some stops exist in the feed but no trip ever stops at them.
Riders may walk to a stop where no bus is scheduled to arrive.
Fix: Remove retired stops from the export, or add them back to the trips that should serve them. (A review pass in your scheduling software.)
Finding code: stop_without_stop_time · Read the fix guide for stop_without_stop_time · See MobilityData GTFS Validator rules (opens the validator rules on an external site)
- Warning17 instances
Some rider-facing names are in ALL CAPS or all lowercase.
ALL-CAPS stop and headsign names are harder to read in apps and are read awkwardly by screen readers.
Fix: Use mixed case for stop names and headsigns (e.g. 'Main St & 2nd Ave', not 'MAIN ST & 2ND AVE'). (Often a bulk fix in your scheduling software.)
Finding code: mixed_case_recommended_field · Read the fix guide for mixed_case_recommended_field · See MobilityData GTFS Validator rules (opens the validator rules on an external site)
- Warning1 instance
Some service calendars have no days of the week switched on.
Trips tied to these calendars never run; they are dead data that can mask real schedule problems.
Fix: Delete the empty calendars or set their service days. (A few minutes in your scheduling software.)
Finding code: service_has_no_active_day_of_the_week · Read the fix guide for service_has_no_active_day_of_the_week · See MobilityData GTFS Validator rules (opens the validator rules on an external site)
- Info23 instances
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.
Fix: Check the flagged column names for misspellings of standard GTFS fields; remove them if they are vendor extras. (A quick look at the flagged files.)
Finding code: unknown_column · Read the fix guide for unknown_column · See MobilityData GTFS Validator rules (opens the validator rules on an external site)
Beyond the grade
Opportunities that do not change your grade today: fare detail, on-demand service, and deeper accessibility data.
The feed publishes fare products but no fare_media.txt declaring how riders can pay.
Consider: Add fare_media.txt listing your accepted payment methods, including contactless EMV if riders can tap to pay.
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 68 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 your NTD ID (optional) Different (allowed)
- Your feed's agency_id is unitrans; your National Transit Database ID is 90142. A feed that serves several agencies (a shared regional feed) can legitimately carry more than one agency_id. The values do not need to equal the five-digit NTD ID, so this difference is allowed and carries no score. Confirm that P-50 crosswalks agency_id unitrans to NTD ID 90142, and keep the feed value stable. Do not change it solely to make the two values equal.
- shapes.txt covers your trips Ready
- All 6680 trips have a shape in shapes.txt.
In plain words: if you report to the federal transit database, you have to publish a working, up-to-date feed, provide a stable agency_id for each represented reporter, and confirm the feed and P-50 crosswalk each year. This box is a heads-up; your filings are the official check.
A readiness signal mapping this feed to the FTA National Transit Database GTFS requirement (Report Year 2023 onward: a public, valid, current feed, certified annually on the D-10). For RY2026, each represented reporter needs a stable agency_id, unique within the feed and crosswalked to its five-digit NTD ID on P-50; the values do not need to be equal. FTA also requires shapes.txt in the published GTFS: Full Reporters from Report Year 2025, and Reduced, Rural, and Tribal Reporters from Report Year 2026. Not an official determination; your certification is the official check.
Conformance mark Not yet
One requirement remains for this feed to earn the conformance mark. States wheelchair access on 0% of stops and 0% of trips; the mark needs 90% of each.
- Valid Met
- Passes validation with no errors.
- Current Met
- Service data covers the next 68 days.
- Accessible Not yet
- States wheelchair access on 0% of stops and 0% of trips; the mark needs 90% of each.
In plain words: earn this mark when your feed passes validation, has not expired, and says whether nearly every stop and trip is wheelchair accessible.
A pass credential for a feed that is valid, current, and states wheelchair access on nearly every stop and trip. Accessibility here measures what the feed publishes, not whether a stop is physically usable. How the conformance mark works.
Can riders use it?
Checks beyond structural validation: places where the feed is valid but a rider still could not travel.
- 19 of 296 boardable stops are never served by any trip. Riders see these stops in apps and on the map but can never catch anything there, which erodes trust in the data. Remove stops no route serves, or add the trips that should call at them.
These do not change the grade. They catch trips with no rideable leg and stops no trip serves, the kind of gap a trip planner trips over.
Clears the Google and Apple Maps four-week coverage bar. This feed has 68 days of service ahead, clearing the four-week (28-day) window Maps asks for. No validator errors either, so riders keep seeing this agency in their trip planners; warnings lower the grade here but do not remove a feed from Maps.
How this agency maps to the standards
The scorecard is a data-quality lens, not a compliance determination. Its universal references describe good GTFS and useful rider information. Useful references here are GTFS Schedule Best Practices, GTFS-Realtime Best Practices, MobilityData grading scheme, Google Transit publication guidance, FTA National Transit Database GTFS requirement. Read the full standards crosswalk.
In California, the published guideline is California Transit Data Guidelines. Caltrans' published quality guidelines and compliance checklist; this rubric is anchored to them.
California Minimum GTFS Guidelines checklist (5 of 6 measured items met)
The state's own Data Process Checklist, matched item by item to what this scorecard already measures. An item marked "not measured here" is real ground the checklist covers that this tool does not check; see the official checklist for the full picture.
- Meets Publish GTFS Schedule at a stable, automatically-fetchable URL
The published feed URL downloaded at the last check.
- Not measured here Implement required fields: Fares v2, text-to-speech stop names, shapes.txt, wheelchair_boarding, and Pathways where applicable
This scorecard measures wheelchair_boarding, shapes.txt coverage, fare data, and station pathways separately, below; it does not check the Fares v2 format specifically or text-to-speech stop names.
- Not measured here Achieve a passing score in every category of the MobilityData GTFS Grading Scheme v1
This scorecard automates a proxy for the Grading Scheme's rider-facing fields (see the standards crosswalk) rather than running the scheme itself, which grades by comparison to the real world by hand.
- Not measured here Publish changes to the base schedule at least one week ahead of every service change
This scorecard does not track a feed's publish history, so advance notice cannot be checked.
- Meets Produce no critical errors in the MobilityData GTFS Validator
Passes validation with no errors.
- Not measured here Publish Trip Updates, Vehicle Positions, and Alerts feeds
This scorecard checks realtime reachability and freshness overall; it does not check for all three feed types individually.
- Not measured here Update Trip Updates and Vehicle Positions at least every 20 seconds
This scorecard samples realtime freshness; it does not check this specific 20-second cadence.
- Not measured here Publish information for at least 99% of vehicles in service
This scorecard measures the share of scheduled trips represented in TripUpdates, a related but different figure than vehicle coverage.
- Not measured here Keep 100% of trip_ids consistent between Schedule and Realtime
This scorecard does not currently check trip_id consistency between the Schedule and Realtime feeds.
- Not measured here Produce no critical errors in the Center for Urban Transportation Research realtime validator
This scorecard does not run the CUTR realtime validator.
- Not measured here Publish accessible feed links on the agency or regional partner website
This scorecard does not check the agency's own website.
- Not measured here Register GTFS and GTFS-Realtime feeds with transit.land and the Mobility Database
This scorecard does not currently check aggregator registration for this section.
- Meets Designate a technical contact in feed_info.txt's feed_contact_email
feed_info.txt states a technical contact.
- Gap wheelchair_boarding stated on stops and trips
States wheelchair access on 0% of stops and 0% of trips.
- Meets shapes.txt with a shape for every trip
All 6680 trips have a shape in shapes.txt.
- Meets Fare data published, or the service marked fare-free
Fare data is published.
- Correctness 75 / 100
- GTFS Schedule best practices, checked by the MobilityData validator. MobilityData grading covers stop locations, route names, and colors. Google Transit requires a feed to pass validation for publication. FTA NTD readiness also checks that the published feed is valid.
- Freshness 100 / 100
- GTFS Schedule best practices call for a dataset that stays current. An expired calendar can remove service from Google Transit and other rider trip planners. FTA NTD readiness also checks that the published feed is current.
- Rider experience 60 / 100
- GTFS Best Practices for rider-facing fields. MobilityData grading covers stop names and headsigns.
- Realtime quality Not yet published
- GTFS-Realtime best practices: a stable URL, high uptime, and frequent updates.
Part of the California portfolio: the same scorecards for every feed we track in that group, on one free page.
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Other scorecards in California, starting with the same kind of service at a similar size. Listed for comparison, not ranked.
Show your grade
Put this badge on your agency site or feed README. It updates after each completed scoring check, shows the date of that check, and links back to this scorecard. When there is no current score it says so instead of showing an old one.
Prefer a shields.io style? Point a dynamic endpoint badge at the published badge.json.
Cite this record
This page updates on every check. The record below does not: it is the dated file this grade came from, published at https://gtfsscorecard.org/data/artifacts/unitrans/2026-10-27.json and never overwritten, pinning the grade, category scores, rubric version, validator version, reader archive profile, and the scored feed's sha256 as they stood on 2026-10-27. Use it in a board packet, a regulatory filing, or a research citation instead of linking the live page, whose content will differ on your next visit.
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