Virginia Railway Express (VRE)

What changed since the last check

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

Top three things to fix

1. Re-export the feed with a calendar that reaches further out, and set feed_info feed_end_date past your next service change.

   Service data ended 587 day(s) ago. When the calendar runs out, trip planners stop showing this agency even though the buses are still running. Riders are told the service does not exist.

   Effort: Usually one export setting; export on a schedule so it never lapses again.

   Agencies here usually clear this within about 1 week (based on 18 observed fixes).

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

   Location with unexpected stop time (flagged by the MobilityData validator). See the linked rule for what this affects.

   Effort: Varies.

3. Check the trip updates endpoint with your AVL vendor; it should return a fresh GTFS-Realtime protobuf on every request.

   The trip updates realtime feed failed during sampling. When this feed is down, riders see scheduled times presented as if they were live.

   Effort: Usually a vendor support ticket.

   Agencies here usually clear this within about 1 week (based on 11 observed fixes).

Ready to send to the agency

Hi Virginia Railway Express (VRE) team, Service data ended 587 day(s) ago. When the calendar runs out, trip planners stop showing this agency even though the buses are still running. Riders are told the service does not exist. The fix is usually one export setting: Re-export the feed with a calendar that reaches further out, and set feed_info feed_end_date past your next service change. This came from your GTFS data quality scorecard, which checks the feed you publish and lists the fixes in plain language: https://gtfsscorecard.org/agency/virginia-railway-express-vre/

Copy this note from the full scorecard.

NTD certification readiness: Not ready

Resolve this before you certify on the D-10. 1 validator error to resolve. Service data expired 586 days ago, so FTA would find the link out of date.

Published Ready

Published at a public URL.

Valid Needs attention

1 validator error to resolve.

Current Not ready

Service data expired 586 days ago, so FTA would find the link out of date.

agency_id and NTD ID: Not aligned. Your feed's agency_id is 1; your National Transit Database ID is 30073. 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 30073 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://www.vre.org/gtfs/google_transit.zip

Last checked

2026-07-09

Service window

Feed has expired. Last service date 2024-11-29.

State

Virginia