{ "agency": { "id": "capital-area-transit-system-cats", "name": "Capital Area Transit System (CATS)", "subdivision_code": "US-LA", "subdivision_name": "Louisiana" }, "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": 15.0, "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": 2372, "headsign_loop_exempt_trips": 0, "headsign_pct": 100.0, "headsign_scored_pct": 100.0, "mixed_case_stop_name_pct": 100.0, "pathways": { "has_entrances": false, "has_levels": false, "has_pathways": false, "has_stations": false, "has_step_free": false, "pathway_count": 0 }, "stops": 1596, "translations": { "feed_lang": null, "has_translations": false, "languages": [], "translated_tables": [], "translation_count": 0 }, "trips": 2372, "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": 1596, "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": "1596 of 1596 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": 2372, "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": "2372 of 2372 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", "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_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": 37.5, "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 not published.", "weight": 0.25 }, "correctness": { "details": { "distinct_codes": 11, "instances_by_severity": { "ERROR": 0, "INFO": 9, "WARNING": 49 }, "validator_version": "8.0.1" }, "findings": [ { "code": "missing_recommended_field", "count": 23, "effort": "A field at a time; not urgent.", "fix": "Review the flagged fields and fill in the ones your riders would use.", "owner": "", "points": 6.0, "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": "equal_shape_distance_same_coordinates", "count": 12, "effort": "Usually one export setting.", "fix": "Turn on shape cleanup in your export tool, or drop the repeated points from shapes.txt.", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 6.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "Some route lines list the same point twice in a row.", "why": "Repeated points don't hurt riders, but they can skew distance math and hint at a shaky export." }, { "code": "expired_calendar", "count": 3, "effort": "One setting in most export tools.", "fix": "Remove past service periods the next time you export the feed.", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 4.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "Some service calendars in the feed have already ended.", "why": "Expired calendars are dead weight and can hide real schedule problems from your staff and vendors." }, { "code": "stop_too_far_from_shape", "count": 3, "effort": "A few minutes per flagged stop.", "fix": "Check the flagged stops' coordinates and the route shape in your scheduling software; re-snap whichever is misplaced.", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 4.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "Some stops sit far from the route line they belong to.", "why": "Trip planners may draw the bus route through the wrong streets or point riders to the wrong corner." }, { "code": "stop_too_far_from_shape_using_user_distance", "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": "stops_match_shape_out_of_order", "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_recommended_file", "count": 1, "effort": "One small file, set once in export settings.", "fix": "Add feed_info.txt with publisher name, URL, language, and feed_start_date/feed_end_date.", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 4.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "A file GTFS asks for (usually feed_info.txt) is missing.", "why": "feed_info.txt tells apps who publishes the feed and when it expires; without it nobody is warned before data goes stale." }, { "code": "mixed_case_recommended_field", "count": 1, "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": 4.0, "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": "trip_coverage_not_active_for_next7_days", "count": 1, "effort": "One setting in most export tools.", "fix": "Trim past service periods the next time you export.", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 4.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "Many of the feed's trips don't run at all in the next 7 days.", "why": "It usually means old service periods are still in the export, making the feed bigger and harder to check." }, { "code": "big_gap_in_service", "count": 7, "effort": "A review of your calendar dates.", "fix": "Check whether the gap is real, like a seasonal break; if not, add the missing dates to the calendar.", "owner": "", "points": 0.8, "severity": "INFO", "what": "The feed has a stretch of two weeks or more with no service running.", "why": "A long gap can mean dates were left out of the calendar. Apps then show no trips on those days." }, { "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": 58.8, "status": "measured", "summary": "The MobilityData validator flagged 11 kinds of issue across 58 instances (0 error, 49 warning, 9 informational).", "weight": 0.35 }, "freshness": { "details": { "days_until_expiry": -163, "effective_expiry_date": "2026-02-19", "feed_end_date": null, "feed_start_date": null, "feed_version": null, "has_feed_info": false, "last_service_date": "2026-02-19", "seasonal_boundary": true, "service_horizon_review_years": 10, "service_horizon_status": "within_review_threshold", "service_type": "fixed" }, "findings": [ { "code": "scorecard_planned_service_boundary", "count": 1, "effort": "One export when the next period's schedule is set.", "fix": "Confirm your next service period is published: export its calendar and set feed_info feed_end_date past it.", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 50.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "The published calendar ended 163 day(s) ago at a boundary between the feed's own scheduled service periods.", "why": "The calendar encodes distinct service periods (like academic terms), so this looks like a planned transition rather than a lapse \u2014 but trip planners still show nothing until the next period is published." }, { "code": "scorecard_missing_feed_info_dates", "count": 1, "effort": "Two fields, set once in export settings.", "fix": "Add feed_info.txt with feed_start_date and feed_end_date to your export.", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 15.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "feed_info.txt is missing its start/end dates (the file itself is absent)", "why": "Apps and this scorecard can't warn anyone before the feed goes stale without stated validity dates." } ], "name": "freshness", "score": 35.0, "status": "measured", "summary": "This feed's calendar reached a scheduled service boundary 163 day(s) ago. Confirm your next service period is published so riders can keep planning trips.", "weight": 0.2 }, "realtime": { "name": "realtime", "status": "not_yet_measured", "summary": "Not scored yet. Nothing here counts against the grade.", "weight": 0.2 } }, "confidence": { "feed_age_days": 0, "fetch_source": "mirror", "level": "provisional", "measured_categories": 3, "notes": [ "Realtime quality was not measured this run. It does not count against the grade.", "The agency's own feed URL was unreachable, so the Mobility Database's hosted mirror copy was scored instead." ], "rt_windows": 0, "total_categories": 4 }, "conformance": { "awarded": false, "criteria": [ { "detail": "Passes validation with no errors.", "key": "valid", "met": true }, { "detail": "Service data expired 163 days ago.", "key": "current", "met": false }, { "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. Service data expired 163 days ago. 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": "fd09c63aff462b7524bfab8f55476af9203b2a4d0a72090dac3f0d559534cfde", "size_bytes": 2742493, "static_url": "https://github.com/transitland/gtfs-archives-not-hosted-elsewhere/raw/master/f-baton~rouge~cats.zip" }, "fetch": { "final_url": "https://storage.googleapis.com/storage/v1/b/mdb-latest/o/us-louisiana-capital-area-transit-system-cats-gtfs-222.zip?alt=media", "max_attempts": 1, "origin_error": "HTTPError", "reader_archive_profile": "raw-v1", "source": "mirror", "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": [ -91.20001, 30.34635, -91.00086, 30.59451 ], "lat": 30.45647, "lon": -91.14024, "stop_count": 1596 }, "mode_profile": { "ferry_only": false, "graded": false, "has_ferry": false, "is_multimodal": false, "measured": true, "modes": [ { "key": "bus", "label": "Bus", "route_count": 22, "trip_count": 2372, "trip_share_pct": 100.0 } ], "primary_mode": "bus", "primary_mode_label": "Bus", "route_count": 22, "trip_count": 2372 }, "ntd_id_alignment": { "detail": "Your agency.txt sets no nonblank agency_id. Every RY2026 NTD GTFS submission needs a stable value unique among the reporters represented in the feed, crosswalked on the P-50 form.", "feed_agency_ids": [], "fix": "Add agency_id to agency.txt and use the same value wherever routes.txt identifies that agency. Keep it stable, and enter its crosswalk to the reporter's NTD ID on P-50. It does not need to equal the five-digit NTD ID.", "status": "missing" }, "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 expired 163 days ago, so FTA would find the link out of date.", "key": "current", "status": "not_ready" }, { "detail": "agency.txt has no nonblank agency_id. Every RY2026 NTD GTFS submission needs a stable value unique among the reporters represented in the feed, crosswalked to each reporter's NTD ID on the P-50 form.", "key": "agency_id", "status": "not_ready" } ], "status": "not_ready", "summary": "Resolve this before you certify on the D-10. Service data expired 163 days ago, so FTA would find the link out of date. agency.txt has no nonblank agency_id. Every RY2026 NTD GTFS submission needs a stable value unique among the reporters represented in the feed, crosswalked to each reporter's NTD ID on the P-50 form." }, "overall": { "grade": "F", "margin_to_lower_band": 46.2, "margin_to_next_band": 13.8, "score": 46.2 }, "recommendations": [ { "category": "accessibility", "code": "scorecard_stop_name_needs_tts", "count": 1582, "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": "1582 stop name(s) use abbreviations or symbols a screen reader may mispronounce, with no spoken form set (\"North St @ 23rd St - E\", \"North St @ 25th St - E\", \"North St @ Eugene - E\", 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": 1596, "findings": [], "orphan_stops": 0, "single_stop_trips": 0, "trips_total": 2372 }, "route_map": { "drawn_route_count": 22, "has_shapes": true, "path": "data/artifacts/capital-area-transit-system-cats/geometry.geojson", "route_count": 22, "routes": [ { "color": "1A7A46", "color_name": "green", "has_shape": true, "id": "1", "label": "008", "long": "Gus Young / BRCC", "short": "008", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "1A7A46", "color_name": "green", "has_shape": true, "id": "10", "label": "021", "long": "Fairfields Ave. - Cortana Mall", "short": "021", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "1A7A46", "color_name": "green", "has_shape": true, "id": "11", "label": "022", "long": "Winbourne Ave. - Cortana Mall", "short": "022", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "1A7A46", "color_name": "green", "has_shape": true, "id": "12", "label": "023", "long": "Foster Dr.", "short": "023", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "1A7A46", "color_name": "green", "has_shape": true, "id": "13", "label": "041", "long": "Plank Rd.", "short": "041", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "1A7A46", "color_name": "green", "has_shape": true, "id": "14", "label": "044", "long": "Florida Blvd. - Cortana Mall", "short": "044", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "1A7A46", "color_name": "green", "has_shape": true, "id": "15", "label": "046", "long": "Cortana/Gardere/L'Auberge", "short": "046", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "1A7A46", "color_name": "green", "has_shape": true, "id": "16", "label": "047", "long": "Highland Rd.", "short": "047", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "1A7A46", "color_name": "green", "has_shape": true, "id": "19", "label": "054", "long": "Airline Hwy. North / Southern Univ.", "short": "054", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "1A7A46", "color_name": "green", "has_shape": true, "id": "2", "label": "010", "long": "Scenic Hwy. / Southern Univ.", "short": "010", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "1A7A46", "color_name": "green", "has_shape": true, "id": "22", "label": "057", "long": "Sherwood Forest Blvd.", "short": "057", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "1A7A46", "color_name": "green", "has_shape": true, "id": "23", "label": "058", "long": "Coursey Blvd. / O'Neal Ln.", "short": "058", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "1A7A46", "color_name": "green", "has_shape": true, "id": "24", "label": "059", "long": "East Florida Blvd. / O'Neal Ln.", "short": "059", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "1A7A46", "color_name": "green", "has_shape": true, "id": "25", "label": "060", "long": "Medical Circulator", "short": "060", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "1A7A46", "color_name": "green", "has_shape": true, "id": "26", "label": "070", "long": "Baker /Southern Univ. / CATS Terminal", "short": "070", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "1A7A46", "color_name": "green", "has_shape": true, "id": "3", "label": "011", "long": "Northside Circulator", "short": "011", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "1A7A46", "color_name": "green", "has_shape": true, "id": "32", "label": "015", "long": "Blount Rd", "short": "015", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "1A7A46", "color_name": "green", "has_shape": true, "id": "4", "label": "012", "long": "Government St. / Jefferson Hwy.", "short": "012", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "1A7A46", "color_name": "green", "has_shape": true, "id": "5", "label": "014", "long": "Thomas Delpit Dr.", "short": "014", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "1A7A46", "color_name": "green", "has_shape": true, "id": "7", "label": "017", "long": "Perkins Rd. - Mall of Louisiana", "short": "017", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "1A7A46", "color_name": "green", "has_shape": true, "id": "8", "label": "018", "long": "LSU - Cortana Mall", "short": "018", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "1A7A46", "color_name": "green", "has_shape": true, "id": "9", "label": "020", "long": "North Acadian Throughway", "short": "020", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" } ], "stop_count": 1596, "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 2372 trips have a shape in shapes.txt.", "status": "ready", "total_trips": 2372, "trips_with_shape": 2372 }, "snapshot_date": "2026-08-01", "top_fixes": [ { "code": "scorecard_planned_service_boundary", "count": 1, "effort": "One export when the next period's schedule is set.", "fix": "Confirm your next service period is published: export its calendar and set feed_info feed_end_date past it.", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 50.0, "rank": 1, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "The published calendar ended 163 day(s) ago at a boundary between the feed's own scheduled service periods.", "why": "The calendar encodes distinct service periods (like academic terms), so this looks like a planned transition rather than a lapse \u2014 but trip planners still show nothing until the next period is published." }, { "code": "scorecard_wheelchair_boarding_unknown", "count": 1596, "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": 2, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "1596 of 1596 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": 2372, "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": 3, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "2372 of 2372 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." } ], "validator_version": "8.0.1" }