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A field survey can start with the busiest stops.", "owner": "Likely your team", "points": 25.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "2949 of 2949 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": 5435, "effort": "Often one default setting in your export.", "fix": "Set wheelchair_accessible on every trip (most small-agency fleets are 100% accessible, so this is often a single default).", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 15.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "5435 of 5435 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": 2920, "effort": "Often a bulk fix in your scheduling software.", "fix": "Rename stops to mixed case (e.g. 'Main St & 2nd Ave').", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 14.9, "severity": "INFO", "what": "About 2920 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": "App makers and state data programs have nobody to email when they spot a problem with your feed, so problems linger." } ], "name": "completeness", "score": 37.6, "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": 5, "instances_by_severity": { "ERROR": 0, "INFO": 0, "WARNING": 8516 }, "validator_version": "8.0.1" }, "findings": [ { "code": "mixed_case_recommended_field", "count": 8411, "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": 102, "effort": "Varies.", "fix": "Review the rule documentation for 'stop_too_far_from_shape_using_user_distance' at https://gtfs-validator.mobilitydata.org/rules.html and check the flagged rows in your feed.", "owner": "", "points": 8.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "Stop too far from shape using user distance (flagged by the MobilityData validator).", "why": "See the linked rule for what this affects." }, { "code": "missing_feed_contact_email_and_url", "count": 1, "effort": "Varies.", "fix": "Review the rule documentation for 'missing_feed_contact_email_and_url' at https://gtfs-validator.mobilitydata.org/rules.html and check the flagged rows in your feed.", "owner": "", "points": 4.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "Missing feed contact email and url (flagged by the MobilityData validator).", "why": "See the linked rule for what this affects." }, { "code": "missing_recommended_field", "count": 1, "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": "route_long_name_contains_short_name", "count": 1, "effort": "Varies.", "fix": "Review the rule documentation for 'route_long_name_contains_short_name' at https://gtfs-validator.mobilitydata.org/rules.html and check the flagged rows in your feed.", "owner": "", "points": 4.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "Route long name contains short name (flagged by the MobilityData validator).", "why": "See the linked rule for what this affects." } ], "name": "correctness", "score": 72.0, "status": "measured", "summary": "The MobilityData validator flagged 5 kinds of issue across 8516 instances (0 error, 8516 warning, 0 informational).", "weight": 0.35 }, "freshness": { "details": { "days_until_expiry": 59, "feed_end_date": "2026-09-06", "feed_start_date": "2026-05-04", "feed_version": "2026-MAY-04-BB_20260630", "has_feed_info": true, "last_service_date": "2026-09-06", "seasonal_boundary": false, "service_type": "fixed" }, "findings": [], "name": "freshness", "score": 98.3, "status": "measured", "summary": "Service data covers the next 59 days.", "weight": 0.2 }, "realtime": { "details": { "coverage_pct": 0.0, "covered_trips": 0, "kinds_reachable": 3, "rt_freshness": "fresh", "samples": 9, "scheduled_trips_in_window": 134, "worst_lag_seconds": 15 }, "findings": [ { "code": "scorecard_rt_trip_coverage", "count": 134, "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": 35.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "134 of 134 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": 58.8, "status": "measured", "summary": "Sampled 9 times: 3 of 3 feeds healthy; 0.0% of scheduled trips had live predictions.", "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": "Passes validation with no errors.", "key": "valid", "met": true }, { "detail": "Service data covers the next 60 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. States wheelchair access on 0% of stops and 0% of trips; the mark needs 90% of each." }, "feed": { "license_note": "License: http://www.cota.com/data", "reachable": true, "sha256": "b11634f117a35a27a1813ed1eeef2b29b9484c6afdda0757262026ed2c9b3bf0", "size_bytes": 3854370, "static_url": "http://www.cota.com/data/cota.gtfs.zip" }, "fetch": { "final_url": "http://www.cota.com/data/cota.gtfs.zip", "max_attempts": 4, "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": "2026-07-08T00:00:00+00:00", "geo": { "bbox": [ -83.16265, 39.82958, -82.77172, 40.15447 ], "lat": 39.98239, "lon": -82.98717, "stop_count": 2949 }, "ntd_id_alignment": { "detail": "Your feed's agency_id is COTA; your National Transit Database ID is 50016. A feed that serves several agencies (a shared regional feed) can legitimately carry more than one agency_id, so a difference here is a heads-up, not an error.", "feed_agency_ids": [ "COTA" ], "fix": "Optionally set the agency_id for your service to 50016 in agency.txt (and the matching agency_id in routes.txt) so the feed lines up with your NTD record. It is a convenience, not a required feed change: FTA also links agency_id to your NTD ID on your P-50 form.", "ntd_id": "50016", "status": "mismatch" }, "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 60 days.", "key": "current", "status": "ready" } ], "status": "ready", "summary": "Published at a public URL, valid, and current: the three things the NTD GTFS requirement asks of a feed all hold here. Only your own D-10 certification makes that official; this is a heads-up, not a determination." }, "overall": { "grade": "D", "margin_to_lower_band": 6.0, "margin_to_next_band": 4.0, "score": 66.0 }, "recommendations": [ { "code": "scorecard_stop_name_needs_tts", "count": 2887, "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": "2887 stop name(s) use abbreviations or symbols a screen reader may mispronounce, with no spoken form set (\"HANSON ST & E MAIN ST\", \"W MOUND ST & S WAYNE AVE\", \"MORSE CROSSING & EASTON WAY\", 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." } ], "recompute": { "as_of": "2026-07-09", "feed_fetched_date": "2026-07-08", "kind": "freshness" }, "routability": { 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"072", "label": "72", "long": "TUTTLE", "short": "72", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "007B4B", "color_name": "green", "has_shape": true, "id": "073", "label": "73", "long": "DUBLIN", "short": "73", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "007B4B", "color_name": "green", "has_shape": true, "id": "074", "label": "74", "long": "SMOKY ROW", "short": "74", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "007B4B", "color_name": "green", "has_shape": true, "id": "075", "label": "75", "long": "ARLINGTON/1ST AVE", "short": "75", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "AF272F", "color_name": "red", "has_shape": true, "id": "101", "label": "CMAX", "long": "CMAX", "short": "CMAX", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "00205B", "color_name": "black", "has_shape": true, "id": "102", "label": "102", "long": "POLARIS PKWY/N HIGH", "short": "102", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "402A16", "color_name": "black", "has_shape": true, "id": "141", "label": "ZOO", "long": "COLUMBUS ZOO", "short": "ZOO", "text_color": "F0E68C", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "00205B", "color_name": "black", "has_shape": false, "id": "152", "label": "AirConnect", "long": "COTA AirConnect", "short": "AirConnect", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "AF272F", "color_name": "red", "has_shape": false, "id": "201", "label": "201", "long": "SMARTRIDE NEW ALBANY - RED", "short": "201", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "00205B", "color_name": "black", "has_shape": false, "id": "202", "label": "202", "long": "SMARTRIDE NEW ALBANY - BLUE", "short": "202", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" } ], "stop_count": 2949, "stop_points_capped": true }, "rubric_version": "1.1", "schema_version": "1.7", "shapes_readiness": { "detail": "All 5435 trips have a shape in shapes.txt.", "status": "ready", "total_trips": 5435, "trips_with_shape": 5435 }, "snapshot_date": "2026-07-09", "top_fixes": [ { "code": "scorecard_rt_trip_coverage", "count": 134, "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": 35.0, "rank": 1, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "134 of 134 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." }, { "code": "scorecard_wheelchair_boarding_unknown", "count": 2949, "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": "2949 of 2949 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": 5435, "effort": "Often one default setting in your export.", "fix": "Set wheelchair_accessible on every trip (most small-agency fleets are 100% accessible, so this is often a single default).", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 15.0, "rank": 3, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "5435 of 5435 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" }