{ "agency": { "id": "big-blue-bus", "name": "Big Blue Bus", "subdivision_code": "US-CA", "subdivision_name": "California" }, "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": 15.0, "headsigns": 15.0, "stop_names": 0.6, "wheelchair_stops": 0.0, "wheelchair_trips": 0.0 }, "fare_free": false, "fares": { "applied": true, "has_leg_rules": false, "has_products": false, "has_transfer_rules": false, "model": "legacy", "product_count": 0 }, "flex": { "booking_reachable": false, "booking_rule_count": 0, "has_booking_rules": false, "has_flex": false }, "has_fares": true, "headsign_applicable_trips": 6546, "headsign_loop_exempt_trips": 0, "headsign_pct": 100.0, "headsign_scored_pct": 100.0, "mixed_case_stop_name_pct": 4.1, "pathways": { "has_entrances": false, "has_levels": false, "has_pathways": false, "has_stations": false, "has_step_free": false, "pathway_count": 0 }, "stops": 918, "translations": { "feed_lang": "en", "has_translations": false, "languages": [], "translated_tables": [], "translation_count": 0 }, "trips": 6546, "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", "count": 918, "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, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "918 of 918 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", "count": 6546, "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": "6546 of 6546 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_stop_names_all_caps", "count": 880, "effort": "Often a bulk fix in your scheduling software.", "fix": "Rename stops to mixed case where the language has letter case (for example, 'Central Station').", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 14.4, "severity": "INFO", "what": "About 880 stop names are written in ALL CAPS.", "why": "Mixed-case names are easier to read in apps and are read more naturally by screen readers." }, { "code": "scorecard_no_feed_contact", "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": "Trip-planning apps and regional data coordinators have nobody to email when they spot a problem with your feed, so problems linger." } ], "name": "completeness", "score": 38.1, "status": "measured", "summary": "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.", "weight": 0.25 }, "correctness": { "details": { "distinct_codes": 8, "instances_by_severity": { "ERROR": 34, "INFO": 2, "WARNING": 1096 }, "validator_version": "8.0.1" }, "findings": [ { "code": "duplicate_key", "count": 34, "effort": "Varies.", "fix": "Review the rule documentation for 'duplicate_key' at https://gtfs-validator.mobilitydata.org/rules.html and check the flagged rows in your feed.", "owner": "", "points": 18.0, "severity": "ERROR", "what": "Duplicate key (flagged by the MobilityData validator).", "why": "See the linked rule for what this affects." }, { "code": "mixed_case_recommended_field", "count": 880, "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", "count": 192, "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": 8.0, "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": "duplicate_route_name", "count": 17, "effort": "One field per route.", "fix": "Give each route a distinct short or long name.", "owner": "", "points": 6.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "Two or more routes share the same name.", "why": "Riders can't tell the routes apart in apps." }, { "code": "stops_match_shape_out_of_order", "count": 4, "effort": "A few minutes per flagged trip.", "fix": "Check the stop order and the shape direction in your scheduling software; the shape is often drawn backwards.", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 4.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "On some trips the stops fall along the route line in a different order than the schedule lists.", "why": "Trip planners can draw the bus doubling back or skipping ahead, which confuses riders reading the map." }, { "code": "missing_recommended_field", "count": 2, "effort": "A field at a time; not urgent.", "fix": "Review the flagged fields and fill in the ones your riders would use.", "owner": "", "points": 4.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "Some files leave out fields that GTFS asks for but does not require.", "why": "Recommended fields like agency_phone or stop descriptions make the feed more useful to riders and trip planners." }, { "code": "missing_feed_contact_email_and_url", "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." }, { "code": "unknown_file", "count": 2, "effort": "A quick look at the flagged file.", "fix": "Check the flagged file name for a typo of a standard GTFS file. Remove it if it is a vendor extra.", "owner": "", "points": 0.5, "severity": "INFO", "what": "The feed includes a file that is not part of the GTFS spec.", "why": "Apps ignore files they don't know, and a stray file can hide a misspelled standard file name." } ], "name": "correctness", "score": 47.5, "status": "measured", "summary": "The MobilityData validator flagged 8 kinds of issue across 1132 instances (34 error, 1096 warning, 2 informational).", "weight": 0.35 }, "freshness": { "details": { "days_until_expiry": 133, "effective_expiry_date": "2026-12-12", "feed_end_date": "2026-12-12", "feed_start_date": "2026-04-05", "feed_version": "2026-07-28T22:37:43Z", "has_feed_info": true, "last_service_date": "2026-12-12", "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 133 days.", "weight": 0.2 }, "realtime": { "details": { "alerts_content": { "alerts": 7, "ended_over_30_days_ago": 0, "with_cause_and_effect": 7, "with_description": 7, "with_header_text": 7, "with_informed_entity": 7 }, "configured_kinds": [ "trip_updates", "vehicle_positions", "service_alerts" ], "coverage_pct": 0.0, "covered_trips": 0, "kinds_configured": 3, "kinds_reachable": 3, "reachable_kinds": [ "trip_updates", "vehicle_positions", "service_alerts" ], "rt_freshness": "lapsed", "samples": 9, "scheduled_trips_in_window": 32, "worst_lag_seconds": 41383740 }, "findings": [ { "code": "scorecard_rt_feed_lapsed", "count": 1, "effort": "A vendor support ticket; treat it as a feed outage.", "fix": "Ask your AVL vendor why the feed stopped advancing; the GTFS-Realtime header timestamp should move forward on every publish.", "owner": "", "points": 29.4, "severity": "ERROR", "what": "The realtime feed's last update was about 478 days old when sampled.", "why": "A realtime feed this far behind has effectively stopped. Riders see buses that already left, or apps quietly fall back to the schedule while still showing a live label." }, { "code": "scorecard_rt_trip_coverage", "count": 32, "effort": "A vendor data-mapping question.", "fix": "Check with your AVL vendor that every vehicle assignment flows into TripUpdates, including school-day and tripper runs.", "owner": "", "points": 41.2, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "32 of 32 trips scheduled during the sampling window had no live predictions.", "why": "Riders on those trips get schedule data dressed up as realtime. Caltrans expects every operating trip in TripUpdates." } ], "name": "realtime", "score": 29.4, "status": "measured", "summary": "Sampled 9 times: 3 of 3 configured feeds healthy; 0.0% of scheduled trips had live predictions; vehicle position plausibility was not measurable.", "weight": 0.2 } }, "confidence": { "feed_age_days": 0, "fetch_source": "origin", "level": "high", "measured_categories": 4, "notes": [ "All four score categories were measured this run.", "Realtime was sampled in one bounded window of 9 snapshots.", "The feed was downloaded from the agency's own URL." ], "rt_windows": 1, "total_categories": 4 }, "conformance": { "awarded": false, "criteria": [ { "detail": "1 validator error to resolve.", "key": "valid", "met": false }, { "detail": "Service data covers the next 133 days.", "key": "current", "met": true }, { "detail": "States wheelchair access on 0% of stops and 0% of trips; the mark needs 90% of each.", "key": "accessible", "met": false } ], "status": "not_yet", "summary": "This feed is close to the conformance mark. 1 validator error to resolve. States wheelchair access on 0% of stops and 0% of trips; the mark needs 90% of each." }, "feed": { "license_note": "No stated data license in the Mobility Database; verify before publishing.", "reachable": true, "sha256": "16537f7ae3dde07e8259875be3a43e8d7f87f9fd0972afacff5305402baa6175", "size_bytes": 2082958, "static_url": "http://gtfs.bigbluebus.com/current.zip" }, "fetch": { "final_url": "http://gtfs.bigbluebus.com/current.zip", "max_attempts": 4, "reader_archive_profile": "raw-v1", "source": "origin", "user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/125.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" }, "generated_at": "2026-08-01T00:00:00+00:00", "geo": { "bbox": [ -118.54921, 33.95148, -118.23727, 34.07567 ], "lat": 34.03023, "lon": -118.45341, "stop_count": 918 }, "mode_profile": { "ferry_only": false, "graded": false, "has_ferry": false, "is_multimodal": false, "measured": true, "modes": [ { "key": "bus", "label": "Bus", "route_count": 34, "trip_count": 6546, "trip_share_pct": 100.0 } ], "primary_mode": "bus", "primary_mode_label": "Bus", "route_count": 34, "trip_count": 6546 }, "ntd_id_alignment": { "detail": "Your feed's agency_id is 6216179; your National Transit Database ID is 90008. 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.", "feed_agency_ids": [ "6216179" ], "fix": "Confirm that P-50 crosswalks agency_id 6216179 to NTD ID 90008, and keep the feed value stable. Do not change it solely to make the two values equal.", "ntd_id": "90008", "status": "mismatch" }, "ntd_readiness": { "pillars": [ { "detail": "Published at a public URL.", "key": "published", "status": "ready" }, { "detail": "1 validator error to resolve.", "key": "valid", "status": "at_risk" }, { "detail": "Service data covers the next 133 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": "at_risk", "summary": "This feed is close to NTD-ready. 1 validator error to resolve." }, "overall": { "grade": "F", "margin_to_lower_band": 52.0, "margin_to_next_band": 8.0, "score": 52.0 }, "recommendations": [ { "category": "accessibility", "code": "scorecard_route_color_low_contrast", "count": 4, "effort": "A per-route color setting in your scheduling software.", "fix": "Adjust route_color or route_text_color so each pair clears 4.5:1. Often switching the text between black and white is enough.", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 0.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "4 route badge(s) pair a color and text color below the WCAG 4.5:1 contrast bar (R10, 43, R10, 43).", "why": "Low-contrast route badges are hard to read for riders with low vision and wash out on a phone screen in sunlight at the stop." }, { "category": "accessibility", "code": "scorecard_stop_name_needs_tts", "count": 908, "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": "908 stop name(s) use abbreviations or symbols a screen reader may mispronounce, with no spoken form set (\"4TH NB & SANTA MONICA NS\", \"SANTA MONICA EB & 6TH NS\", \"SANTA MONICA EB & CENTINELA FS\", and more).", "why": "Riders who use a screen reader hear the raw name, so 'Main St & 2nd Ave' can come out as 'Main saint' or drop the ampersand." } ], "routability": { "boardable_stops": 918, "findings": [], "orphan_stops": 0, "single_stop_trips": 0, "trips_total": 6546 }, "route_map": { "drawn_route_count": 34, "has_shapes": true, "path": "data/artifacts/big-blue-bus/geometry.geojson", "route_count": 34, "routes": [ { "color": "F8971D", "color_name": "orange", "has_shape": true, "id": "4050", "label": "1", "long": "Main St & Santa Monica Blvd/UCLA", "short": "1", "text_color": "000000", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "552988", "color_name": "purple", "has_shape": true, "id": "4051", "label": "2", "long": "Wilshire Blvd/UCLA", "short": "2", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "D31245", "color_name": "red", "has_shape": true, "id": "4052", "label": "3", "long": "Lincoln Blvd/LAX", "short": "3", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "66B360", "color_name": "gray", "has_shape": true, "id": "4054", "label": "5", "long": "Olympic Blvd", "short": "5", "text_color": "000000", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "9397CB", "color_name": "gray", "has_shape": true, "id": "4056", "label": "7", "long": "Pico Blvd", "short": "7", "text_color": "000000", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "005984", "color_name": "teal", "has_shape": true, "id": "4057", "label": "8", "long": "Ocean Park Blvd & Westwood Bl/UCLA", "short": "8", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "EB4498", "color_name": "pink", "has_shape": true, "id": "4058", "label": "9", "long": "Pacific Palisades", "short": "9", "text_color": "000000", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "00AFDB", "color_name": "teal", "has_shape": true, "id": "4059", "label": "R10", "long": "Downtown LA Freeway Express", "short": "R10", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "C298C6", "color_name": "pink", "has_shape": true, "id": "4060", "label": "R12", "long": "Venice/Westwood Sta/UCLA Rapid", "short": "R12", "text_color": "000000", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "54301A", "color_name": "brown", "has_shape": true, "id": "4061", "label": "14", "long": "Bundy Dr & Centinela Ave", "short": "14", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "C1D82F", "color_name": "yellow", "has_shape": true, "id": "4062", "label": "15", "long": "Barrington Ave", "short": "15", "text_color": "000000", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "F49AC1", "color_name": "pink", "has_shape": true, "id": "4063", "label": "16", "long": "Wilshire Bl/Bundy Dr-Playa del Rey", "short": "16", "text_color": "000000", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "FEC221", "color_name": "yellow", "has_shape": true, "id": "4064", "label": "17", "long": "Culver City Sta - 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UCLA", "short": "17", "text_color": "000000", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "76174D", "color_name": "brown", "has_shape": true, "id": "4113", "label": "18", "long": "UCLA - Marina del Rey", "short": "18", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "E11B22", "color_name": "red", "has_shape": true, "id": "4115", "label": "41", "long": "SMC- 17th St Station- Montana", "short": "41", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "0092A5", "color_name": "teal", "has_shape": true, "id": "4117", "label": "43", "long": "26th Street", "short": "43", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "E87D1E", "color_name": "orange", "has_shape": true, "id": "4118", "label": "44", "long": "17th St Sta - SMC Bundy Campus", "short": "44", "text_color": "000000", "type_label": "Bus" } ], "stop_count": 918, "stop_points_capped": false }, "rubric_version": "1.3", "schema_version": "1.17", "scoring_profile": { "id": "gtfs-scorecard-1.3", "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": "1.3" }, "shapes_readiness": { "detail": "All 6546 trips have a shape in shapes.txt.", "status": "ready", "total_trips": 6546, "trips_with_shape": 6546 }, "snapshot_date": "2026-08-01", "top_fixes": [ { "code": "scorecard_rt_feed_lapsed", "count": 1, "effort": "A vendor support ticket; treat it as a feed outage.", "fix": "Ask your AVL vendor why the feed stopped advancing; the GTFS-Realtime header timestamp should move forward on every publish.", "owner": "", "points": 29.4, "rank": 1, "severity": "ERROR", "what": "The realtime feed's last update was about 478 days old when sampled.", "why": "A realtime feed this far behind has effectively stopped. Riders see buses that already left, or apps quietly fall back to the schedule while still showing a live label." }, { "code": "duplicate_key", "count": 34, "effort": "Varies.", "fix": "Review the rule documentation for 'duplicate_key' at https://gtfs-validator.mobilitydata.org/rules.html and check the flagged rows in your feed.", "owner": "", "points": 18.0, "rank": 2, "severity": "ERROR", "what": "Duplicate key (flagged by the MobilityData validator).", "why": "See the linked rule for what this affects." }, { "code": "scorecard_rt_trip_coverage", "count": 32, "effort": "A vendor data-mapping question.", "fix": "Check with your AVL vendor that every vehicle assignment flows into TripUpdates, including school-day and tripper runs.", "owner": "", "points": 41.2, "rank": 3, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "32 of 32 trips scheduled during the sampling window had no live predictions.", "why": "Riders on those trips get schedule data dressed up as realtime. Caltrans expects every operating trip in TripUpdates." } ], "validator_version": "8.0.1" }