{ "agency": { "id": "centre-county-transit-authority-cata", "name": "CATABUS", "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": 15.0, "headsigns": 15.0, "stop_names": 15.0, "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": 856, "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": 359, "translations": { "feed_lang": "en", "has_translations": false, "languages": [], "translated_tables": [], "translation_count": 0 }, "trips": 856, "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": 359, "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": "359 of 359 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": 856, "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": "856 of 856 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_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": 52.5, "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 published.", "weight": 0.25 }, "correctness": { "details": { "distinct_codes": 13, "instances_by_severity": { "ERROR": 121, "INFO": 20, "WARNING": 5562 }, "validator_version": "8.0.1" }, "findings": [ { "code": "decreasing_or_equal_stop_time_distance", "count": 120, "effort": "Usually an export-tool fix, not hand editing.", "fix": "Re-generate shape distances in your export; flag to your vendor if it persists.", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 24.0, "severity": "ERROR", "what": "Some trips have stop times whose distances along the route go backwards.", "why": "Apps can show buses jumping backwards or mis-order stops." }, { "code": "invalid_phone_number", "count": 1, "effort": "Varies.", "fix": "Review the rule documentation for 'invalid_phone_number' at https://gtfs-validator.mobilitydata.org/rules.html and check the flagged rows in your feed.", "owner": "", "points": 12.0, "severity": "ERROR", "what": "Invalid phone number (flagged by the MobilityData validator).", "why": "See the linked rule for what this affects." }, { "code": "fast_travel_between_consecutive_stops", "count": 4473, "effort": "A few minutes per flagged trip.", "fix": "Check the flagged stop times for transposed minutes.", "owner": "", "points": 8.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "Some scheduled trips move faster between stops than a bus can.", "why": "Usually a typo'd stop time; riders get arrival times no bus can meet." }, { "code": "equal_shape_distance_same_coordinates", "count": 920, "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": 8.0, "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": "stop_too_far_from_shape_using_user_distance", "count": 155, "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": "route_long_name_contains_short_name", "count": 9, "effort": "One field per flagged route.", "fix": "Drop the short name from route_long_name and keep the long name descriptive, like 'Downtown via 5th Ave'.", "owner": "", "points": 6.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "Some route long names repeat the route's short name inside them.", "why": "Apps show both names together, so riders see the number twice, like '5 5 Downtown'." }, { "code": "equal_shape_distance_diff_coordinates_distance_below_threshold", "count": 1, "effort": "Varies.", "fix": "Review the rule documentation for 'equal_shape_distance_diff_coordinates_distance_below_threshold' at https://gtfs-validator.mobilitydata.org/rules.html and check the flagged rows in your feed.", "owner": "", "points": 4.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "Equal shape distance diff coordinates distance below threshold (flagged by the MobilityData validator).", "why": "See the linked rule for what this affects." }, { "code": "expired_calendar", "count": 1, "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": "feed_expiration_date7_days", "count": 1, "effort": "Usually a re-export from your scheduling software.", "fix": "Export and publish an updated GTFS feed that covers at least the next 30 days of service.", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 4.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "This feed's service calendar runs out within the next 7 days.", "why": "When the calendar ends, Google Maps and other trip planners drop your agency entirely. Riders see no service at all." }, { "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": "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": "trip_headsign_matches_intermediate_stop", "count": 19, "effort": "Usually a bulk edit in your scheduling software.", "fix": "Set trip_headsign to the trip's last stop or its overall destination.", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 0.8, "severity": "INFO", "what": "Some trip headsigns name a stop along the way, not the final destination.", "why": "The sign should tell riders where the bus ends up, so a midpoint name can send them the wrong way." }, { "code": "unknown_file", "count": 1, "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": 12.8, "status": "measured", "summary": "The MobilityData validator flagged 13 kinds of issue across 5703 instances (121 error, 5562 warning, 20 informational).", "weight": 0.35 }, "freshness": { "details": { "days_until_expiry": -1806, "effective_expiry_date": "2021-08-21", "feed_end_date": "2021-08-21", "feed_start_date": "2021-05-03", "feed_version": "20210503", "has_feed_info": true, "last_service_date": "2022-05-03", "seasonal_boundary": false, "service_horizon_review_years": 10, "service_horizon_status": "within_review_threshold", "service_type": "fixed" }, "findings": [ { "code": "scorecard_feed_expired", "count": 1, "effort": "Usually one export setting; export on a schedule so it never lapses again.", "fix": "Re-export the feed with a calendar that reaches further out, and set feed_info feed_end_date past your next service change.", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 100.0, "severity": "ERROR", "what": "Service data ended 1806 day(s) ago.", "why": "When the calendar runs out, trip planners stop showing this agency even though the buses are still running. Riders are told the service does not exist." } ], "name": "freshness", "score": 0.0, "status": "measured", "summary": "Service data ended 1806 day(s) ago. Trip planners have likely already dropped this feed.", "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": "2 validator errors to resolve.", "key": "valid", "met": false }, { "detail": "Service data expired 1806 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. 2 validator errors to resolve. Service data expired 1806 days ago. States wheelchair access on 0% of stops and 0% of trips; the mark needs 90% of each." }, "feed": { "license_note": "License: https://catabus.com/developer-tools/", "reachable": true, "sha256": "b933466ad49708b0c69a7d624ab10fca8fa6f9500e541715634d1c30e0325272", "size_bytes": 227321, "static_url": "https://transitfeeds.com/p/catabus/536/latest/download" }, "fetch": { "final_url": "https://storage.googleapis.com/storage/v1/b/mdb-latest/o/us-pennsylvania-centre-county-transit-authority-cata-gtfs-1236.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": [ -77.94165, 40.76101, -77.75424, 40.84053 ], "lat": 40.80214, "lon": -77.86826, "stop_count": 359 }, "mode_profile": { "ferry_only": false, "graded": false, "has_ferry": false, "is_multimodal": false, "measured": true, "modes": [ { "key": "bus", "label": "Bus", "route_count": 9, "trip_count": 856, "trip_share_pct": 100.0 } ], "primary_mode": "bus", "primary_mode_label": "Bus", "route_count": 9, "trip_count": 856 }, "ntd_id_alignment": { "detail": "This feed provides agency_id. For RY2026, keep one stable value for each NTD reporter represented in the feed and crosswalk it on the P-50 form. The value does not need to equal the five-digit NTD ID; we do not have that ID on file, so the optional equality comparison is not checked yet.", "feed_agency_ids": [ "0" ], "status": "unknown" }, "ntd_readiness": { "pillars": [ { "detail": "Published at a public URL.", "key": "published", "status": "ready" }, { "detail": "2 validator errors to resolve.", "key": "valid", "status": "at_risk" }, { "detail": "Service data expired 1806 days ago, so FTA would find the link out of date.", "key": "current", "status": "not_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": "not_ready", "summary": "Resolve this before you certify on the D-10. 2 validator errors to resolve. Service data expired 1806 days ago, so FTA would find the link out of date." }, "overall": { "grade": "F", "margin_to_lower_band": 22.0, "margin_to_next_band": 38.0, "score": 22.0 }, "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 (W, Rl).", "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": 291, "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": "291 stop name(s) use abbreviations or symbols a screen reader may mispronounce, with no spoken form set (\"N Atherton St at Hillcrest Ave\", \"1101 N. Atherton St (CVS)\", \"801 W Aaron Dr (Park Forest Apartments)\", 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": 359, "findings": [], "orphan_stops": 0, "single_stop_trips": 0, "trips_total": 856 }, "route_map": { "drawn_route_count": 9, "has_shapes": true, "path": "data/artifacts/centre-county-transit-authority-cata/geometry.geojson", "route_count": 9, "routes": [ { "color": "990099", "color_name": "purple", "has_shape": true, "id": "10", "label": "V", "long": "V", "short": "V", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "FF99CC", "color_name": "white", "has_shape": true, "id": "11", "label": "R", "long": "R", "short": "R", "text_color": "000000", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "000099", "color_name": "blue", "has_shape": true, "id": "15", "label": "K", "long": "K", "short": "K", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "999900", "color_name": "brown", "has_shape": true, "id": "16", "label": "W", "long": "W", "short": "W", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "0000FF", "color_name": "blue", "has_shape": true, "id": "19", "label": "Bl", "long": "Bl", "short": "Bl", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "FF0000", "color_name": "red", "has_shape": true, "id": "22", "label": "Rl", "long": "Rl", "short": "Rl", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "00FF00", "color_name": "green", "has_shape": true, "id": "5", "label": "N", "long": "N", "short": "N", "text_color": "000000", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "FF9999", "color_name": "pink", "has_shape": true, "id": "77", "label": "Hm", "long": "Hm", "short": "Hm", "text_color": "06060D", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "FF9900", "color_name": "orange", "has_shape": true, "id": "9", "label": "P", "long": "P", "short": "P", "text_color": "000000", "type_label": "Bus" } ], "stop_count": 359, "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 856 trips have a shape in shapes.txt.", "status": "ready", "total_trips": 856, "trips_with_shape": 856 }, "snapshot_date": "2026-08-01", "top_fixes": [ { "code": "scorecard_feed_expired", "count": 1, "effort": "Usually one export setting; export on a schedule so it never lapses again.", "fix": "Re-export the feed with a calendar that reaches further out, and set feed_info feed_end_date past your next service change.", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 100.0, "rank": 1, "severity": "ERROR", "what": "Service data ended 1806 day(s) ago.", "why": "When the calendar runs out, trip planners stop showing this agency even though the buses are still running. Riders are told the service does not exist." }, { "code": "decreasing_or_equal_stop_time_distance", "count": 120, "effort": "Usually an export-tool fix, not hand editing.", "fix": "Re-generate shape distances in your export; flag to your vendor if it persists.", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 24.0, "rank": 2, "severity": "ERROR", "what": "Some trips have stop times whose distances along the route go backwards.", "why": "Apps can show buses jumping backwards or mis-order stops." }, { "code": "invalid_phone_number", "count": 1, "effort": "Varies.", "fix": "Review the rule documentation for 'invalid_phone_number' at https://gtfs-validator.mobilitydata.org/rules.html and check the flagged rows in your feed.", "owner": "", "points": 12.0, "rank": 3, "severity": "ERROR", "what": "Invalid phone number (flagged by the MobilityData validator).", "why": "See the linked rule for what this affects." } ], "validator_version": "8.0.1" }