{ "agency": { "id": "area-transportation-authority-of-north-central-pa", "name": "Area Transportation Authority of North Central Pennsylvania", "subdivision_code": "US-PA", "subdivision_name": "Pennsylvania" }, "categories": { "completeness": { "details": { "accessibility": { "measures": "presence_not_usability", "score": 0.0, "stops_marked_accessible_pct": 0.0, "stops_marked_not_accessible_pct": 0.0, "stops_stated_pct": 0.0, "trips_stated_pct": 0.0 }, "accessibility_measures": "presence_not_usability", "cemv": { "declared": false, "supported": false }, "components": { "contact": 7.5, "fares": 0.0, "headsigns": 15.0, "stop_names": 2.2, "wheelchair_stops": 0.0, "wheelchair_trips": 0.0 }, "fare_free": false, "fares": { "applied": false, "has_leg_rules": false, "has_products": false, "has_transfer_rules": false, "model": "none", "product_count": 0 }, "flex": { "booking_reachable": false, "booking_rule_count": 0, "has_booking_rules": false, "has_flex": false }, "has_fares": false, "headsign_applicable_trips": 1395, "headsign_loop_exempt_trips": 0, "headsign_pct": 100.0, "headsign_scored_pct": 100.0, "headsign_stop_headsign_trips": 0, "mixed_case_stop_name_pct": 14.7, "pathways": { "has_entrances": false, "has_levels": false, "has_pathways": false, "has_stations": false, "has_step_free": false, "pathway_count": 0 }, "stops": 204, "translations": { "feed_lang": "en", "has_translations": false, "languages": [], "translated_tables": [], "translation_count": 0 }, "trips": 1395, "unmeasured_components": [], "wheelchair_accessible_pct": 0.0, "wheelchair_boarding_pct": 0.0, "wheelchair_marked_accessible_pct": 0.0, "wheelchair_marked_not_accessible_pct": 0.0 }, "findings": [ { "code": "scorecard_wheelchair_boarding_unknown", "consequence": { "absences": [ "This record does not store annual rider-trips. 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A field survey can start with the busiest stops.", "owner": "Likely your team", "points": 25.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "204 of 204 stops don't say whether a wheelchair user can board there.", "why": "Riders who use wheelchairs can't plan a trip when accessibility is marked 'unknown'; apps show no information at all." }, { "code": "scorecard_wheelchair_accessible_unknown", "consequence": { "absences": [ "This record does not store annual rider-trips. The agency page and its reports add them from the ridership snapshot and name its date.", "This record does not store transit need. The agency page and its reports add it from the need overlays and name their date." ], "code": "scorecard_wheelchair_accessible_unknown", "line": "Fixing this covers all 1,395 trips in the feed.", "reach": { "affected": 1395, "basis": "trips", "basis_label": "trips", "reason": "", "share": 1.0, "total": 1395, "total_source": "routability.trips_total" }, "ridership": { "annual_rider_trips": null, "ntd_id": "30196", "reason": "not_joined_here" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "us_acs", "tier": null } }, "count": 1395, "effort": "A default or per-trip field in your export.", "fix": "Set wheelchair_accessible on every trip. If every vehicle is accessible, this may be one default; otherwise use the value for each trip.", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 15.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "1395 of 1395 trips don't say whether the vehicle is wheelchair accessible.", "why": "Even with accessible stops, riders need to know the bus itself can take them." }, { "code": "scorecard_no_fare_data", "consequence": { "absences": [ "This record does not store annual rider-trips. The agency page and its reports add them from the ridership snapshot and name its date.", "This record does not store transit need. The agency page and its reports add it from the need overlays and name their date." ], "code": "scorecard_no_fare_data", "line": "This one is about the feed as a whole, so there is no share of it to count.", "reach": { "affected": null, "basis": "none", "basis_label": null, "reason": "feed_level", "share": null, "total": null, "total_source": null }, "ridership": { "annual_rider_trips": null, "ntd_id": "30196", "reason": "not_joined_here" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "us_acs", "tier": null } }, "count": 1, "effort": "A small file for most flat-fare systems.", "fix": "Add fare_attributes.txt (or Fares v2 files) with your fare structure. If your service is fare-free, ask to have it marked fare-free instead.", "owner": "", "points": 15.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "The feed contains no fare information.", "why": "Riders see 'fare unknown' in trip planners and can't budget their trip; visitors are most affected." }, { "code": "scorecard_stop_names_all_caps", "consequence": { "absences": [ "This record does not store annual rider-trips. The agency page and its reports add them from the ridership snapshot and name its date.", "This record does not store transit need. 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The agency page and its reports add them from the ridership snapshot and name its date.", "This record does not store transit need. The agency page and its reports add it from the need overlays and name their date." ], "code": "scorecard_no_feed_contact", "line": "This one is about the feed as a whole, so there is no share of it to count.", "reach": { "affected": null, "basis": "none", "basis_label": null, "reason": "feed_level", "share": null, "total": null, "total_source": null }, "ridership": { "annual_rider_trips": null, "ntd_id": "30196", "reason": "not_joined_here" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "us_acs", "tier": null } }, "count": 1, "effort": "One field.", "fix": "Add feed_contact_email to feed_info.txt.", "owner": "", "points": 7.5, "severity": "INFO", "what": "feed_info.txt has no technical contact (feed_contact_email or feed_contact_url).", "why": "App makers and state data programs have nobody to email when they spot a problem. 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The agency page and its reports add it from the need overlays and name their date." ], "code": "mixed_case_recommended_field", "line": "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.", "reach": { "affected": null, "basis": "none", "basis_label": null, "reason": "validator_notice", "share": null, "total": null, "total_source": null }, "ridership": { "annual_rider_trips": null, "ntd_id": "30196", "reason": "not_joined_here" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "us_acs", "tier": null } }, "count": 165, "effort": "Often a bulk fix in your scheduling software.", "fix": "Use mixed case for stop names and headsigns (e.g. 'Main St & 2nd Ave', not 'MAIN ST & 2ND AVE').", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 8.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "Some rider-facing names are in ALL CAPS or all lowercase.", "why": "ALL-CAPS stop and headsign names are harder to read in apps and are read awkwardly by screen readers." }, { "code": "stop_too_far_from_shape_using_user_distance", "consequence": { "absences": [ "This record does not store annual rider-trips. The agency page and its reports add them from the ridership snapshot and name its date.", "This record does not store transit need. The agency page and its reports add it from the need overlays and name their date." ], "code": "stop_too_far_from_shape_using_user_distance", "line": "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.", "reach": { "affected": null, "basis": "none", "basis_label": null, "reason": "validator_notice", "share": null, "total": null, "total_source": null }, "ridership": { "annual_rider_trips": null, "ntd_id": "30196", "reason": "not_joined_here" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "us_acs", "tier": null } }, "count": 3, "effort": "Usually an export-tool fix, not hand editing.", "fix": "Check the flagged stops' shape_dist_traveled against the route shape, and re-generate it on export if they disagree.", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 4.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "Some stops sit far from the route line, going by the feed's own distance values.", "why": "Trip planners may draw the route down the wrong streets or point riders to the wrong corner." }, { "code": "missing_feed_contact_email_and_url", "consequence": { "absences": [ "This record does not store annual rider-trips. The agency page and its reports add them from the ridership snapshot and name its date.", "This record does not store transit need. The agency page and its reports add it from the need overlays and name their date." ], "code": "missing_feed_contact_email_and_url", "line": "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.", "reach": { "affected": null, "basis": "none", "basis_label": null, "reason": "validator_notice", "share": null, "total": null, "total_source": null }, "ridership": { "annual_rider_trips": null, "ntd_id": "30196", "reason": "not_joined_here" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "us_acs", "tier": null } }, "count": 1, "effort": "One field, set once in export settings.", "fix": "Add feed_contact_email or feed_contact_url to feed_info.txt.", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 4.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "feed_info.txt lists no contact email and no contact URL.", "why": "Without a contact, apps like Google Maps can't reach you when they find a problem in the feed." } ], "name": "correctness", "score": 84.0, "status": "measured", "summary": "The MobilityData validator flagged 3 kinds of issue across 169 instances (0 error, 169 warning, 0 informational).", "weight": 0.35 }, "freshness": { "details": { "days_until_expiry": 131, "effective_expiry_date": "2027-02-28", "expiry_limited_by": "both", "feed_end_date": "2027-02-28", "feed_start_date": "2026-09-08", "feed_version": "20260908", "has_feed_info": true, "last_service_date": "2027-02-28", "seasonal_boundary": false, "service_horizon_review_years": 10, "service_horizon_status": "within_review_threshold", "service_type": "fixed" }, "findings": [], "name": "freshness", "score": 100.0, "status": "measured", "summary": "Service data covers the next 131 days.", "weight": 0.2 }, "realtime": { "name": "realtime", "status": "not_yet_measured", "summary": "Not scored yet. 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States wheelchair access on 0% of stops and 0% of trips; the mark needs 90% of each.", "version": 2 }, "feed": { "license_note": "No stated data license in the source catalog; verify before publishing.", "reachable": true, "sha256": "e61a75d64808cb4f1cce2b7f339791f0fbf9a9ee85b2228945ee23cd96d5879e", "size_bytes": 740027, "source_provenance": "unverified", "static_url": "https://rideata.rideralerts.com/InfoPoint/gtfs-zip.ashx" }, "fetch": { "final_url": "https://rideata.rideralerts.com/InfoPoint/gtfs-zip.ashx", "max_attempts": 4, "reader_archive_profile": "raw-v1", "source": "origin", "user_agent": "gtfs-scorecard/1.5.1 (+https://gtfsscorecard.org)" }, "generated_at": "2026-10-20T00:00:00+00:00", "geo": { "bbox": [ -79.3954, 40.92771, -78.22416, 41.97956 ], "lat": 41.12824, "lon": -78.65321, "stop_count": 204 }, "mode_profile": { "ferry_only": false, "graded": false, "has_ferry": false, "is_multimodal": false, "measured": true, "modes": [ { "key": "bus", "label": "Bus", "route_count": 20, "trip_count": 1395, "trip_share_pct": 100.0 } ], "primary_mode": "bus", "primary_mode_label": "Bus", "route_count": 20, "trip_count": 1395 }, "ntd_id_alignment": { "detail": "This feed's agency_id also equals its NTD ID (30196). Equality is allowed but not required; keep the value stable and retain the P-50 crosswalk.", "feed_agency_ids": [ "30196" ], "ntd_id": "30196", "status": "aligned" }, "ntd_readiness": { "pillars": [ { "detail": "Published at a public URL.", "key": "published", "status": "ready" }, { "detail": "Passes validation with no errors.", "key": "valid", "status": "ready" }, { "detail": "Service data covers the next 131 days.", "key": "current", "status": "ready" }, { "detail": "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.", "key": "agency_id", "status": "ready" } ], "status": "ready", "summary": "Published at a public URL, valid, current, and identified with agency_id: the four feed checks for RY2026 all hold here. 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It also washes out on a phone screen in sunlight at the stop." }, { "category": "accessibility", "code": "scorecard_stop_name_needs_tts", "count": 62, "effort": "A short text field per affected stop; start with the busiest.", "fix": "Add tts_stop_name with the spoken form, e.g. 'Main Street and Second Avenue', for the affected stops.", "owner": "", "points": 0.0, "severity": "INFO", "what": "62 stop name(s) use abbreviations or symbols a screen reader may mispronounce, with no spoken form set (\"BRUSSELLS ST & JOHN ST\", \"METOXET & JACKSON\", \"COURTHOUSE (COURT ST ENTRANCE)\", and more).", "why": "A screen reader speaks the raw name. 'Main St & 2nd Ave' can come out as 'Main saint', or lose the ampersand." } ], "routability": { "boardable_stops": 204, "findings": [], "orphan_stops": 0, "single_stop_trips": 0, "trips_total": 1395 }, "route_map": { "drawn_route_count": 20, "has_shapes": true, "path": "data/artifacts/area-transportation-authority-of-north-central-pa/geometry.geojson", "route_count": 20, "routes": [ { "color": "253C8C", "color_name": "blue", "has_shape": true, "id": "1300", "label": "RWXP", "long": "Ridgway Express", "short": "RWXP", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "B03125", "color_name": "red", "has_shape": true, "id": "2100", "label": "EMXP", "long": "Emporium Express", "short": "EMXP", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "0D0D0D", "color_name": "black", "has_shape": true, "id": "2110", "label": "FRST", "long": "Friday Shopping Trip", "short": "FRST", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "C1000C", "color_name": "red", "has_shape": true, "id": "3100", "label": "BFDR", "long": "Bradford Red Route", "short": "BFDR", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "30375B", "color_name": "green", "has_shape": true, "id": "3110", "label": "BFDB", "long": "Bradford Blue Route", "short": "BFDB", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "808000", "color_name": "brown", "has_shape": true, "id": "3112", "label": "BFDW", "long": "Bradford White Route", "short": "BFDW", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "263C8C", "color_name": "blue", "has_shape": true, "id": "3140", "label": "BDSP", "long": "Bradford to Smethport", "short": "BDSP", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "253C8C", "color_name": "blue", "has_shape": true, "id": "3500", "label": "MCC", "long": "McKean County Connection", "short": "MCC", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "2E445D", "color_name": "green", "has_shape": true, "id": "5100", "label": "PXDB", "long": "Punxsy to DuBois", "short": "PXDB", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "010101", "color_name": "black", "has_shape": true, "id": "5110", "label": "PUXS", "long": "Punxsy Shadow", "short": "PUXS", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "9DCF49", "color_name": "gray", "has_shape": true, "id": "5500", "label": "RVBW", "long": "Reynoldsville to Brockway", "short": "RVBW", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "2F385B", "color_name": "green", "has_shape": true, "id": "6100", "label": "CLFB", "long": "Clearfield Blue", "short": "CLFB", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "8C2F22", "color_name": "brown", "has_shape": true, "id": "6110", "label": "CLFR", "long": "Clearfield Red", "short": "CLFR", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "1E2946", "color_name": "black", "has_shape": true, "id": "6120", "label": "MTLP", "long": "The Mountain Loop", "short": "MTLP", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "808000", "color_name": "brown", "has_shape": true, "id": "6121", "label": "MTMD", "long": "The Mountain Mid-day Loop", "short": "MTMD", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "808000", "color_name": "brown", "has_shape": true, "id": "6131", "label": "CLFW", "long": "Clearfield White", "short": "CLFW", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "B12E06", "color_name": "red", "has_shape": true, "id": "6400", "label": "VEXP", "long": "The Valley Express", "short": "VEXP", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "0D0D0D", "color_name": "black", "has_shape": true, "id": "7102", "label": "PWCL", "long": "Penn West Clarion Loop", "short": "PWCL", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "000080", "color_name": "blue", "has_shape": true, "id": "8100", "label": "DUFB", "long": "DuBois Blue", "short": "DUFB", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "DD3A43", "color_name": "red", "has_shape": true, "id": "8400", "label": "DUFR", "long": "DuBois Red", "short": "DUFR", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" } ], "stop_count": 204, "stop_points_capped": false }, "rubric_version": "1.4", "schema_version": "1.19", "scoring_profile": { "id": "gtfs-scorecard-1.4", "provenance": "GTFS Scorecard's project-authored weights, deductions, thresholds, grade bands, and fix ranking, informed by the California Transit Data Guidelines and the MobilityData gtfs-validator. It is not a worldwide standard or a compliance determination.", "rubric_version": "1.4" }, "shapes_readiness": { "detail": "All 1395 trips have a shape in shapes.txt.", "status": "ready", "total_trips": 1395, "trips_with_shape": 1395 }, "snapshot_date": "2026-10-20", "top_fixes": [ { "code": "scorecard_wheelchair_boarding_unknown", "consequence": { "absences": [ "This record does not store annual rider-trips. The agency page and its reports add them from the ridership snapshot and name its date.", "This record does not store transit need. The agency page and its reports add it from the need overlays and name their date." ], "code": "scorecard_wheelchair_boarding_unknown", "line": "Fixing this covers all 204 stops in the feed.", "reach": { "affected": 204, "basis": "stops", "basis_label": "stops", "reason": "", "share": 1.0, "total": 204, "total_source": "geo.stop_count" }, "ridership": { "annual_rider_trips": null, "ntd_id": "30196", "reason": "not_joined_here" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "us_acs", "tier": null } }, "count": 204, "effort": "A column in stops.txt; your scheduling software likely has it.", "fix": "Set wheelchair_boarding to 1 (accessible) or 2 (not accessible) for every stop. A field survey can start with the busiest stops.", "owner": "Likely your team", "points": 25.0, "rank": 1, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "204 of 204 stops don't say whether a wheelchair user can board there.", "why": "Riders who use wheelchairs can't plan a trip when accessibility is marked 'unknown'; apps show no information at all." }, { "code": "scorecard_wheelchair_accessible_unknown", "consequence": { "absences": [ "This record does not store annual rider-trips. The agency page and its reports add them from the ridership snapshot and name its date.", "This record does not store transit need. The agency page and its reports add it from the need overlays and name their date." ], "code": "scorecard_wheelchair_accessible_unknown", "line": "Fixing this covers all 1,395 trips in the feed.", "reach": { "affected": 1395, "basis": "trips", "basis_label": "trips", "reason": "", "share": 1.0, "total": 1395, "total_source": "routability.trips_total" }, "ridership": { "annual_rider_trips": null, "ntd_id": "30196", "reason": "not_joined_here" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "us_acs", "tier": null } }, "count": 1395, "effort": "A default or per-trip field in your export.", "fix": "Set wheelchair_accessible on every trip. If every vehicle is accessible, this may be one default; otherwise use the value for each trip.", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 15.0, "rank": 2, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "1395 of 1395 trips don't say whether the vehicle is wheelchair accessible.", "why": "Even with accessible stops, riders need to know the bus itself can take them." }, { "code": "scorecard_no_fare_data", "consequence": { "absences": [ "This record does not store annual rider-trips. The agency page and its reports add them from the ridership snapshot and name its date.", "This record does not store transit need. The agency page and its reports add it from the need overlays and name their date." ], "code": "scorecard_no_fare_data", "line": "This one is about the feed as a whole, so there is no share of it to count.", "reach": { "affected": null, "basis": "none", "basis_label": null, "reason": "feed_level", "share": null, "total": null, "total_source": null }, "ridership": { "annual_rider_trips": null, "ntd_id": "30196", "reason": "not_joined_here" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "us_acs", "tier": null } }, "count": 1, "effort": "A small file for most flat-fare systems.", "fix": "Add fare_attributes.txt (or Fares v2 files) with your fare structure. If your service is fare-free, ask to have it marked fare-free instead.", "owner": "", "points": 15.0, "rank": 3, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "The feed contains no fare information.", "why": "Riders see 'fare unknown' in trip planners and can't budget their trip; visitors are most affected." } ], "validator_version": "8.0.1" }