{ "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": 3277, "headsign_loop_exempt_trips": 0, "headsign_pct": 100.0, "headsign_scored_pct": 100.0, "headsign_stop_headsign_trips": 0, "mixed_case_stop_name_pct": 4.2, "pathways": { "has_entrances": false, "has_levels": false, "has_pathways": false, "has_stations": false, "has_step_free": false, "pathway_count": 0 }, "stops": 901, "translations": { "feed_lang": "en", "has_translations": false, "languages": [], "translated_tables": [], "translation_count": 0 }, "trips": 3277, "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. 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 901 stops in the feed.", "reach": { "affected": 901, "basis": "stops", "basis_label": "stops", "reason": "", "share": 1.0, "total": 901, "total_source": "geo.stop_count" }, "ridership": { "annual_rider_trips": null, "ntd_id": "90008", "reason": "not_joined_here" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "us_acs", "tier": null } }, "count": 901, "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": "901 of 901 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 3,277 trips in the feed.", "reach": { "affected": 3277, "basis": "trips", "basis_label": "trips", "reason": "", "share": 1.0, "total": 3277, "total_source": "routability.trips_total" }, "ridership": { "annual_rider_trips": null, "ntd_id": "90008", "reason": "not_joined_here" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "us_acs", "tier": null } }, "count": 3277, "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": "3277 of 3277 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", "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_stop_names_all_caps", "line": "Fixing this covers 863 of 901 stops, about 96% of them.", "reach": { "affected": 863, "basis": "stops", "basis_label": "stops", "reason": "", "share": 0.9578, "total": 901, "total_source": "geo.stop_count" }, "ridership": { "annual_rider_trips": null, "ntd_id": "90008", "reason": "not_joined_here" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "us_acs", "tier": null } }, "count": 863, "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 863 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", "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_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": "90008", "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. Small errors then sit in the feed for months." } ], "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": 17, "INFO": 2, "WARNING": 951 }, "validator_version": "8.0.1" }, "findings": [ { "code": "duplicate_key", "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": "duplicate_key", "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": "90008", "reason": "not_joined_here" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "us_acs", "tier": null } }, "count": 17, "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", "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": "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": "90008", "reason": "not_joined_here" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "us_acs", "tier": null } }, "count": 863, "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": "90008", "reason": "not_joined_here" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "us_acs", "tier": null } }, "count": 82, "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": "missing_recommended_field", "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_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": "90008", "reason": "not_joined_here" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "us_acs", "tier": null } }, "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": "stops_match_shape_out_of_order", "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": "stops_match_shape_out_of_order", "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": "90008", "reason": "not_joined_here" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "us_acs", "tier": null } }, "count": 2, "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_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": "90008", "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." }, { "code": "stop_without_stop_time", "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_without_stop_time", "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": "90008", "reason": "not_joined_here" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "us_acs", "tier": null } }, "count": 1, "effort": "A review pass in your scheduling software.", "fix": "Remove retired stops from the export, or add them back to the trips that should serve them.", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 4.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "Some stops exist in the feed but no trip ever stops at them.", "why": "Riders may walk to a stop where no bus is scheduled to arrive." }, { "code": "unknown_file", "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": "unknown_file", "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": "90008", "reason": "not_joined_here" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "us_acs", "tier": null } }, "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": 49.5, "status": "measured", "summary": "The MobilityData validator flagged 8 kinds of issue across 970 instances (17 error, 951 warning, 2 informational).", "weight": 0.35 }, "freshness": { "details": { "days_until_expiry": 65, "effective_expiry_date": "2026-12-12", "expiry_limited_by": "both", "feed_end_date": "2026-12-12", "feed_start_date": "2026-08-09", "feed_version": "2026-08(AUG)_20260728", "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 65 days.", "weight": 0.2 }, "realtime": { "details": { "alerts_content": { "alerts": 8, "ended_over_30_days_ago": 0, "with_cause_and_effect": 8, "with_description": 8, "with_header_text": 8, "with_informed_entity": 8 }, "configured_kinds": [ "trip_updates", "vehicle_positions", "service_alerts" ], "coverage_pct": 0.0, "covered_trips": 0, "drift": { "median_seconds": -19016, "observations": 32, "on_time_share_pct": 0.0, "p90_abs_seconds": 19253 }, "kinds_configured": 3, "kinds_reachable": 3, "reachable_kinds": [ "trip_updates", "vehicle_positions", "service_alerts" ], "rt_freshness": "lapsed", "samples": 9, "scheduled_trips_in_window": 60, "worst_lag_seconds": 47168832 }, "findings": [ { "code": "scorecard_rt_feed_lapsed", "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_rt_feed_lapsed", "line": "This was measured over a realtime sampling window, so it has no feed-wide share.", "reach": { "affected": null, "basis": "none", "basis_label": null, "reason": "sampled_window", "share": null, "total": null, "total_source": null }, "ridership": { "annual_rider_trips": null, "ntd_id": "90008", "reason": "not_joined_here" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "us_acs", "tier": null } }, "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 545 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", "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_rt_trip_coverage", "line": "This was measured over a realtime sampling window, so it has no feed-wide share.", "reach": { "affected": null, "basis": "none", "basis_label": null, "reason": "sampled_window", "share": null, "total": null, "total_source": null }, "ridership": { "annual_rider_trips": null, "ntd_id": "90008", "reason": "not_joined_here" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "us_acs", "tier": null } }, "count": 60, "effort": "A vendor data-mapping question.", "fix": "Ask your AVL vendor to check that every vehicle assignment reaches TripUpdates. School-day and tripper runs are the ones most often left out.", "owner": "", "points": 41.2, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "60 of 60 trips scheduled during the sampling window had no live predictions.", "why": "Riders on those trips get schedule times labeled as live. Caltrans asks that every trip you run shows up in TripUpdates." }, { "code": "scorecard_rt_predictions_implausible", "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_rt_predictions_implausible", "line": "This was measured over a realtime sampling window, so it has no feed-wide share.", "reach": { "affected": null, "basis": "none", "basis_label": null, "reason": "sampled_window", "share": null, "total": null, "total_source": null }, "ridership": { "annual_rider_trips": null, "ntd_id": "90008", "reason": "not_joined_here" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "us_acs", "tier": null } }, "count": 32, "effort": "A vendor data-mapping question.", "fix": "Spot-check the flagged predictions against what buses actually did; raise trip-matching with your AVL vendor.", "owner": "", "points": 0.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "Some live predictions are more than 30 minutes away from the schedule.", "why": "Differences that large usually mean predictions are keyed to the wrong trips, not that buses are that late." } ], "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; predictions ran a median of 19016s ahead of schedule.", "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 configured feed URL. Publisher ownership of that URL is not verified." ], "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 65 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": "Two requirements remain for this feed to earn 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.", "version": 2 }, "feed": { "license_note": "No stated data license in the Mobility Database; verify before publishing.", "reachable": true, "sha256": "715a2c0b0781569d431ef449ad88fe352e887e57271f28219b222267b5999adf", "size_bytes": 1043108, "source_provenance": "unverified", "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": "2026-10-07T00:00:00+00:00", "geo": { "bbox": [ -118.54921, 33.95148, -118.23727, 34.07567 ], "lat": 34.0298, "lon": -118.45484, "stop_count": 901 }, "mode_profile": { "ferry_only": false, "graded": false, "has_ferry": false, "is_multimodal": false, "measured": true, "modes": [ { "key": "bus", "label": "Bus", "route_count": 17, "trip_count": 3277, "trip_share_pct": 100.0 } ], "primary_mode": "bus", "primary_mode_label": "Bus", "route_count": 17, "trip_count": 3277 }, "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 65 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": 52.7, "margin_to_next_band": 7.3, "score": 52.7 }, "recommendations": [ { "category": "accessibility", "code": "scorecard_route_color_low_contrast", "count": 2, "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": "2 route badge(s) pair a color and text color below the WCAG 4.5:1 contrast bar (R10, 43).", "why": "Riders with low vision struggle to read a low-contrast route badge. It also washes out on a phone screen in sunlight at the stop." }, { "category": "accessibility", "code": "scorecard_stop_name_needs_tts", "count": 892, "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": "892 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": "A screen reader speaks the raw name. 'Main St & 2nd Ave' can come out as 'Main saint', or lose the ampersand." } ], "recompute": { "as_of": "2026-10-08", "feed_fetched_date": "2026-10-07", "kind": "freshness" }, "routability": { "boardable_stops": 901, "findings": [ { "code": "scorecard_orphan_stops", "count": 1, "effort": "A cleanup pass in your scheduling software.", "fix": "Remove stops no route serves, or add the trips that should call at them.", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 0.0, "severity": "INFO", "what": "1 of 901 boardable stops are never served by any trip.", "why": "Riders see these stops in apps and on the map but can never catch anything there, which erodes trust in the data." } ], "orphan_stops": 1, "single_stop_trips": 0, "trips_total": 3277 }, "route_map": { "drawn_route_count": 17, "has_shapes": true, "path": "data/artifacts/big-blue-bus/geometry.geojson", "route_count": 17, "routes": [ { "color": "F8971D", "color_name": "orange", "has_shape": true, "id": "4098", "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": "4099", "label": "2", "long": "Wilshire Blvd/UCLA", "short": "2", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "D31245", "color_name": "red", "has_shape": true, "id": "4100", "label": "3", "long": "Lincoln Blvd/LAX", "short": "3", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "66B360", "color_name": "gray", "has_shape": true, "id": "4102", "label": "5", "long": "Olympic Blvd", "short": "5", "text_color": "000000", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "9397CB", "color_name": "gray", "has_shape": true, "id": "4104", "label": "7", "long": "Pico Blvd", "short": "7", "text_color": "000000", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "005984", "color_name": "teal", "has_shape": true, "id": "4105", "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": "4106", "label": "9", "long": "Pacific Palisades", "short": "9", "text_color": "000000", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "00AFDB", "color_name": "teal", "has_shape": true, "id": "4107", "label": "R10", "long": "Downtown LA Freeway Express", "short": "R10", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "C298C6", "color_name": "pink", "has_shape": true, "id": "4108", "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": "4109", "label": "14", "long": "Bundy Dr & Centinela Ave", "short": "14", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "C1D82F", "color_name": "yellow", "has_shape": true, "id": "4110", "label": "15", "long": "Barrington Ave", "short": "15", "text_color": "000000", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "F49AC1", "color_name": "pink", "has_shape": true, "id": "4111", "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": "4112", "label": "17", "long": "Culver City Sta - 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": 901, "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 3277 trips have a shape in shapes.txt.", "status": "ready", "total_trips": 3277, "trips_with_shape": 3277 }, "snapshot_date": "2026-10-08", "top_fixes": [ { "code": "scorecard_rt_feed_lapsed", "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_rt_feed_lapsed", "line": "This was measured over a realtime sampling window, so it has no feed-wide share.", "reach": { "affected": null, "basis": "none", "basis_label": null, "reason": "sampled_window", "share": null, "total": null, "total_source": null }, "ridership": { "annual_rider_trips": null, "ntd_id": "90008", "reason": "not_joined_here" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "us_acs", "tier": null } }, "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 545 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", "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": "duplicate_key", "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": "90008", "reason": "not_joined_here" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "us_acs", "tier": null } }, "count": 17, "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", "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_rt_trip_coverage", "line": "This was measured over a realtime sampling window, so it has no feed-wide share.", "reach": { "affected": null, "basis": "none", "basis_label": null, "reason": "sampled_window", "share": null, "total": null, "total_source": null }, "ridership": { "annual_rider_trips": null, "ntd_id": "90008", "reason": "not_joined_here" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "us_acs", "tier": null } }, "count": 60, "effort": "A vendor data-mapping question.", "fix": "Ask your AVL vendor to check that every vehicle assignment reaches TripUpdates. School-day and tripper runs are the ones most often left out.", "owner": "", "points": 41.2, "rank": 3, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "60 of 60 trips scheduled during the sampling window had no live predictions.", "why": "Riders on those trips get schedule times labeled as live. Caltrans asks that every trip you run shows up in TripUpdates." } ], "validator_version": "8.0.1" }