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  "agency": {
    "id": "des-moines-area-regional-transit-authority-dart",
    "name": "Des Moines Area Regional Transit Authority (DART)"
  },
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    "available": true,
    "download_path": "data/artifacts/des-moines-area-regional-transit-authority-dart/corrected.zip",
    "download_url": "https://d14aimrgrbaz2a.cloudfront.net/data/artifacts/des-moines-area-regional-transit-authority-dart/corrected.zip",
    "fixes": [
      {
        "code": "autofix_stop_name_case",
        "count": 866,
        "examples": [
          "HUBBELL AVE / GUTHRIE AVE, DSM -> Hubbell Ave / Guthrie Ave, Dsm",
          "OFFICE PARK RD / #815, WDM -> Office Park Rd / #815, Wdm",
          "11TH ST / OFFICE PARK RD, WDM -> 11th St / Office Park Rd, Wdm"
        ],
        "label": "Recased shouting stop names"
      },
      {
        "code": "autofix_route_name_case",
        "count": 8,
        "examples": [
          "HUBBELL AVE -> Hubbell Ave",
          "EASTON BLVD -> Easton Blvd",
          "MLK JR PKWY -> Mlk Jr Pkwy"
        ],
        "label": "Recased shouting route names"
      }
    ],
    "total": 874
  },
  "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",
        "components": {
          "contact": 7.5,
          "fares": 0.0,
          "headsigns": 15.0,
          "stop_names": 0.2,
          "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_pct": 100.0,
        "mixed_case_stop_name_pct": 1.6,
        "pathways": {
          "has_entrances": false,
          "has_levels": false,
          "has_pathways": false,
          "has_stations": true,
          "has_step_free": false,
          "pathway_count": 0
        },
        "stops": 880,
        "trips": 1664,
        "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": 880,
          "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": "880 of 880 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": 1664,
          "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": "1664 of 1664 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_stop_names_all_caps",
          "count": 866,
          "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": 14.8,
          "severity": "INFO",
          "what": "About 866 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."
        },
        {
          "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": 22.7,
      "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": 3,
        "instances_by_severity": {
          "ERROR": 0,
          "INFO": 0,
          "WARNING": 2320
        },
        "validator_version": "8.0.1"
      },
      "findings": [
        {
          "code": "mixed_case_recommended_field",
          "count": 2317,
          "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": "service_has_no_active_day_of_the_week",
          "count": 2,
          "effort": "A few minutes in your scheduling software.",
          "fix": "Delete the empty calendars or set their service days.",
          "owner": "Likely your export tool",
          "points": 4.0,
          "severity": "WARNING",
          "what": "Some service calendars have no days of the week switched on.",
          "why": "Trips tied to these calendars never run; they are dead data that can mask real schedule problems."
        },
        {
          "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."
        }
      ],
      "name": "correctness",
      "score": 84.0,
      "status": "measured",
      "summary": "The MobilityData validator flagged 3 kinds of issue across 2320 instances (0 error, 2320 warning, 0 informational).",
      "weight": 0.35
    },
    "freshness": {
      "details": {
        "days_until_expiry": 44,
        "feed_end_date": "2026-08-22",
        "feed_start_date": "2026-06-14",
        "feed_version": "2026.06_20260514",
        "has_feed_info": true,
        "last_service_date": "2026-08-22",
        "seasonal_boundary": false,
        "service_type": "fixed"
      },
      "findings": [],
      "name": "freshness",
      "score": 73.3,
      "status": "measured",
      "summary": "Service data covers the next 44 days.",
      "weight": 0.2
    },
    "realtime": {
      "details": {
        "coverage_pct": 0.0,
        "covered_trips": 0,
        "drift": {
          "median_seconds": 135,
          "observations": 1176,
          "on_time_share_pct": 83.8,
          "p90_abs_seconds": 360
        },
        "kinds_reachable": 3,
        "rt_freshness": "lapsed",
        "samples": 9,
        "scheduled_trips_in_window": 21,
        "vehicles_checked": 79,
        "vehicles_on_route_pct": 86.1,
        "worst_lag_seconds": 57407
      },
      "findings": [
        {
          "code": "scorecard_rt_feed_lapsed",
          "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": 25.0,
          "severity": "ERROR",
          "what": "The realtime feed's last update was about 15 hours 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",
          "count": 21,
          "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": "21 of 21 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_rt_vehicles_off_route",
          "count": 11,
          "effort": "A vendor support ticket with the trip ids attached.",
          "fix": "Ask your AVL vendor to check vehicle-to-trip assignments for the flagged trips.",
          "owner": "",
          "points": 2.1,
          "severity": "WARNING",
          "what": "11 of 79 sampled vehicle positions were far from their assigned route (worst: 793 m).",
          "why": "A bus shown off its route usually means a wrong trip assignment; riders watch their bus drive the wrong streets."
        }
      ],
      "name": "realtime",
      "score": 37.9,
      "status": "measured",
      "summary": "Sampled 9 times: 3 of 3 feeds healthy; 0.0% of scheduled trips had live predictions; 86.1% of vehicles on their route; predictions ran a median of 135s behind schedule.",
      "weight": 0.2
    }
  },
  "conformance": {
    "awarded": false,
    "criteria": [
      {
        "detail": "Passes validation with no errors.",
        "key": "valid",
        "met": true
      },
      {
        "detail": "Service data covers the next 56 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": "No stated data license in the Mobility Database; verify before publishing.",
    "reachable": true,
    "sha256": "8393a192555c0c2731945350f3f4351b5106f3cba33003a8817a8d3b4dc15572",
    "size_bytes": 742658,
    "static_url": "https://www.ridedart.com/gtfs/data/gtfsdata"
  },
  "generated_at": "2026-06-27T00:00:00+00:00",
  "geo": {
    "bbox": [
      -93.80942,
      41.51176,
      -93.50323,
      41.73201
    ],
    "lat": 41.60031,
    "lon": -93.62765,
    "stop_count": 880
  },
  "ntd_id_alignment": {
    "detail": "If you report to the National Transit Database, your GTFS agency_id should be your five-digit NTD ID by report year 2026 (2025 for full reporters). We don't have your NTD ID on file, so this one is not checked yet.",
    "feed_agency_ids": [
      "70010"
    ],
    "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 covers the next 56 days.",
        "key": "current",
        "status": "ready"
      }
    ],
    "status": "ready",
    "summary": "This feed looks ready for your NTD certification: published at a public URL, valid, and current. The official check is still your D-10 certification."
  },
  "overall": {
    "grade": "F",
    "margin_to_lower_band": 57.3,
    "margin_to_next_band": 2.7,
    "score": 57.3
  },
  "recommendations": [
    {
      "code": "scorecard_route_color_low_contrast",
      "count": 4,
      "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": "4 route badge(s) pair a color and text color below the WCAG 4.5:1 contrast bar (2, 5, 7, 8).",
      "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."
    },
    {
      "code": "scorecard_stop_name_needs_tts",
      "count": 863,
      "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": "863 stop name(s) use abbreviations or symbols a screen reader may mispronounce, with no spoken form set (\"HUBBELL AVE / GUTHRIE AVE, DSM\", \"OFFICE PARK RD / #815, WDM\", \"11TH ST / OFFICE PARK RD, WDM\", 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."
    },
    {
      "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": "2026-07-09",
    "feed_fetched_date": "2026-07-08",
    "kind": "freshness"
  },
  "routability": {
    "boardable_stops": 879,
    "findings": [],
    "orphan_stops": 0,
    "single_stop_trips": 0,
    "trips_total": 1664
  },
  "rubric_version": "1.1",
  "schema_version": "1.4",
  "snapshot_date": "2026-07-09",
  "top_fixes": [
    {
      "code": "scorecard_rt_feed_lapsed",
      "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": 25.0,
      "rank": 1,
      "severity": "ERROR",
      "what": "The realtime feed's last update was about 15 hours 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",
      "count": 21,
      "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": 2,
      "severity": "WARNING",
      "what": "21 of 21 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": 880,
      "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": 3,
      "severity": "WARNING",
      "what": "880 of 880 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."
    }
  ],
  "validator_version": "8.0.1"
}