{ "agency": { "id": "culver-city-bus", "name": "Culver City Bus" }, "categories": { "completeness": { "details": { "accessibility": { "measures": "presence_not_usability", "score": 37.6, "stops_marked_accessible_pct": 0.2, "stops_marked_not_accessible_pct": 0.0, "stops_stated_pct": 0.2, "trips_stated_pct": 100.0 }, "accessibility_measures": "presence_not_usability", "cemv": { "declared": false, "supported": false }, "components": { "contact": 15.0, "fares": 15.0, "headsigns": 15.0, "stop_names": 15.0, "wheelchair_stops": 0.1, "wheelchair_trips": 15.0 }, "fare_free": false, "fares": { "applied": true, "has_leg_rules": true, "has_products": true, "has_transfer_rules": true, "model": "v2", "product_count": 24 }, "flex": { "booking_reachable": false, "booking_rule_count": 0, "has_booking_rules": false, "has_flex": false }, "has_fares": true, "headsign_applicable_trips": 10311, "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": true, "has_step_free": false, "pathway_count": 0 }, "stops": 417, "translations": { "feed_lang": "en", "has_translations": false, "languages": [], "translated_tables": [], "translation_count": 0 }, "trips": 10311, "wheelchair_accessible_pct": 100.0, "wheelchair_boarding_pct": 0.2, "wheelchair_marked_accessible_pct": 0.2, "wheelchair_marked_not_accessible_pct": 0.0 }, "findings": [ { "code": "scorecard_wheelchair_boarding_unknown", "count": 416, "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": 24.9, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "416 of 417 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_station_no_pathways", "count": 1, "effort": "Worth it for multi-level or large stations; flat stops don't need it.", "fix": "Add pathways.txt connecting entrances, platforms, and any elevators, with a level for each.", "owner": "", "points": 0.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "This feed models stations or entrances but has no pathways.txt.", "why": "Trip planners can't guide riders through the station, and there is no step-free route information for wheelchair users." } ], "name": "completeness", "score": 75.1, "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": 9, "instances_by_severity": { "ERROR": 0, "INFO": 13, "WARNING": 27 }, "validator_version": "8.0.1" }, "findings": [ { "code": "expired_calendar", "count": 18, "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": 6.0, "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_without_stop_time", "count": 3, "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": "equal_shape_distance_same_coordinates", "count": 2, "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": 4.0, "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": "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_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": "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": "unused_shape", "count": 1, "effort": "One setting.", "fix": "Turn on 'remove unused shapes' (or the like) in your export tool.", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 4.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "The feed contains route shapes no trip uses.", "why": "Harmless to riders, but it bloats the feed and suggests stale export data." }, { "code": "big_gap_in_service", "count": 10, "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_column", "count": 3, "effort": "A quick look at the flagged files.", "fix": "Check the flagged column names for misspellings of standard GTFS fields; remove them if they are vendor extras.", "owner": "", "points": 0.5, "severity": "INFO", "what": "Some files contain columns that are not part of the GTFS spec.", "why": "Harmless to riders, but apps ignore these columns and they can hide typos in real column names." } ], "name": "correctness", "score": 68.8, "status": "measured", "summary": "The MobilityData validator flagged 9 kinds of issue across 40 instances (0 error, 27 warning, 13 informational).", "weight": 0.35 }, "freshness": { "details": { "days_until_expiry": -20, "effective_expiry_date": "2026-07-12", "feed_end_date": "2026-07-12", "feed_start_date": "2026-01-12", "feed_version": "S1000250_2026.01.09", "has_feed_info": true, "last_service_date": "2026-07-12", "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 20 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 20 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": "Passes validation with no errors.", "key": "valid", "met": true }, { "detail": "Service data expired 13 days ago.", "key": "current", "met": false }, { "detail": "States wheelchair access on 0% of stops and 100% 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 13 days ago. States wheelchair access on 0% of stops and 100% 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": "b7c46c977165e86fb5348ca4c19ccbe75aa784c793c78c536feb2c94f7175a58", "size_bytes": 1844113, "static_url": "https://www.culvercity.org/files/assets/public/documents/information-technology/maps/gtfsexport.zip" }, "fetch": { "final_url": "https://storage.googleapis.com/storage/v1/b/mdb-latest/o/us-california-culver-city-bus-gtfs-38.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": "2026-07-25T00:00:00+00:00", "geo": { "bbox": [ -118.47152, 33.95085, -118.36869, 34.06829 ], "lat": 34.00334, "lon": -118.40666, "stop_count": 417 }, "mode_profile": { "ferry_only": false, "graded": false, "has_ferry": false, "is_multimodal": false, "measured": true, "modes": [ { "key": "bus", "label": "Bus", "route_count": 12, "trip_count": 10311, "trip_share_pct": 100.0 } ], "primary_mode": "bus", "primary_mode_label": "Bus", "route_count": 12, "trip_count": 10311 }, "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": [ "1" ], "status": "unknown" }, "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 13 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. Service data expired 13 days ago, so FTA would find the link out of date." }, "overall": { "grade": "F", "margin_to_lower_band": 53.6, "margin_to_next_band": 6.4, "score": 53.6 }, "recommendations": [ { "category": "accessibility", "code": "scorecard_route_color_low_contrast", "count": 5, "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": "5 route badge(s) pair a color and text color below the WCAG 4.5:1 contrast bar (1, 1C1, 6, Rapid 6, 7).", "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": 400, "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": "400 stop name(s) use abbreviations or symbols a screen reader may mispronounce, with no spoken form set (\"Windward Ave/Main St\", \"Pacific Ave/N Venice Blvd\", \"Washington Blvd/Pacific Ave\", 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." }, { "category": "accessibility", "code": "scorecard_station_missing_step_free_data", "count": 2, "effort": "Worth it for multi-level or large stations; flat stops don't need it.", "fix": "Add pathways.txt connecting entrances, platforms, and elevators, and levels.txt for each floor, so the step-free route is described.", "owner": "", "points": 0.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "This feed models stations or entrances but has no pathways.txt and levels.txt.", "why": "Without pathways and levels, a wheelchair user can't tell whether a step-free route exists inside the station, and trip planners can't route anyone through it." } ], "recompute": { "as_of": "2026-08-01", "feed_fetched_date": "2026-07-31", "kind": "freshness" }, "routability": { "boardable_stops": 416, "findings": [ { "code": "scorecard_orphan_stops", "count": 3, "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": "3 of 416 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": 3, "single_stop_trips": 0, "trips_total": 10311 }, "route_map": { "drawn_route_count": 11, "has_shapes": true, "path": "data/artifacts/culver-city-bus/geometry.geojson", "route_count": 12, "routes": [ { "color": "E2442E", "color_name": "red", "has_shape": true, "id": "1", "label": "1", "long": "Washington Boulevard", "short": "1", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "E2442E", "color_name": "red", "has_shape": true, "id": "1C1", "label": "1C1", "long": "Culver City Downtown Circulator", "short": "1C1", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "9D3782", "color_name": "purple", "has_shape": true, "id": "2", "label": "2", "long": "Inglewood Boulevard", "short": "2", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "1C5183", "color_name": "teal", "has_shape": true, "id": "3", "label": "3", "long": "Crosstown", "short": "3", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "FFF734", "color_name": "yellow", "has_shape": true, "id": "4", "label": "4", "long": "Jefferson Boulevard", "short": "4", "text_color": "000000", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "5D35A9", "color_name": "purple", "has_shape": true, "id": "5", "label": "5", "long": "Braddock Drive", "short": "5", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "5D35A9", "color_name": "purple", "has_shape": true, "id": "5C1", "label": "5C1", "long": "Arts District/Clarksdale", "short": "5C1", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "5D35A9", "color_name": "purple", "has_shape": true, "id": "5C2", "label": "5C2", "long": "Overland/Fox Hills", "short": "5C2", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "F17C35", "color_name": "orange", "has_shape": true, "id": "6", "label": "6", "long": "Sepulveda Boulevard", "short": "6", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "7F7F7F", "color_name": "gray", "has_shape": true, "id": "6R", "label": "Rapid 6", "long": "Sepulveda Boulevard", "short": "Rapid 6", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "17A8E6", "color_name": "teal", "has_shape": true, "id": "7", "label": "7", "long": "Culver Boulevard", "short": "7", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "FFFFFF", "color_name": "white", "has_shape": false, "id": "9999", "label": "9999", "long": "Test Route", "short": "9999", "text_color": "000000", "type_label": "Bus" } ], "stop_count": 417, "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 10311 trips have a shape in shapes.txt.", "status": "ready", "total_trips": 10311, "trips_with_shape": 10311 }, "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 20 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": "scorecard_wheelchair_boarding_unknown", "count": 416, "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": 24.9, "rank": 2, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "416 of 417 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": "expired_calendar", "count": 18, "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": 6.0, "rank": 3, "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." } ], "validator_version": "8.0.1" }