{ "agency": { "id": "des-moines-area-regional-transit-authority-dart", "name": "Des Moines Area Regional Transit Authority (DART)", "subdivision_code": "US-IA", "subdivision_name": "Iowa" }, "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": 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_applicable_trips": 1664, "headsign_loop_exempt_trips": 0, "headsign_pct": 100.0, "headsign_scored_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, "translations": { "feed_lang": "en", "has_translations": false, "languages": [], "translated_tables": [], "translation_count": 0 }, "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": "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": "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 where the language has letter case (for example, 'Central Station').", "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": "Trip-planning apps and regional data coordinators 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": 4, "instances_by_severity": { "ERROR": 0, "INFO": 0, "WARNING": 2321 }, "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": "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": "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." } ], "name": "correctness", "score": 80.0, "status": "measured", "summary": "The MobilityData validator flagged 4 kinds of issue across 2321 instances (0 error, 2321 warning, 0 informational).", "weight": 0.35 }, "freshness": { "details": { "days_until_expiry": 21, "effective_expiry_date": "2026-08-22", "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_horizon_review_years": 10, "service_horizon_status": "within_review_threshold", "service_type": "fixed" }, "findings": [ { "code": "scorecard_feed_expiring_soon", "count": 1, "effort": "One export setting.", "fix": "Re-export with a validity window that reaches at least 60 days out.", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 59.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "Service data runs out in 21 day(s).", "why": "When the calendar runs out, trip planners stop showing this agency. Fixing it now is calmer than after riders notice." } ], "name": "freshness", "score": 35.0, "status": "measured", "summary": "Service data runs out in 21 day(s). Publish an updated feed soon or riders will lose trip planning.", "weight": 0.2 }, "realtime": { "details": { "alerts_content": { "alerts": 6, "ended_over_30_days_ago": 0, "with_cause_and_effect": 0, "with_description": 6, "with_header_text": 6, "with_informed_entity": 6 }, "configured_kinds": [ "trip_updates", "vehicle_positions", "service_alerts" ], "coverage_pct": null, "kinds_configured": 3, "kinds_reachable": 3, "reachable_kinds": [ "trip_updates", "vehicle_positions", "service_alerts" ], "rt_freshness": "lapsed", "samples": 9, "scheduled_trips_in_window": 0, "vehicles_checked": 17, "vehicles_on_route_pct": 100.0, "worst_lag_seconds": 11980 }, "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": 38.5, "severity": "ERROR", "what": "The realtime feed's last update was about 3 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." } ], "name": "realtime", "score": 61.5, "status": "measured", "summary": "Sampled 9 times outside service hours: 3 of 3 configured feeds healthy; 100.0% of vehicles on their route.", "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 runs out in 28 days; renew to qualify.", "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 runs out in 28 days; renew to qualify. 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" }, "fetch": { "final_url": "https://www.ridedart.com/gtfs/data/gtfsdata", "max_attempts": 4, "reader_archive_profile": "raw-v1", "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": "2026-07-25T00:00:00+00:00", "geo": { "bbox": [ -93.80942, 41.51176, -93.50323, 41.73201 ], "lat": 41.60031, "lon": -93.62765, "stop_count": 880 }, "mode_profile": { "ferry_only": false, "graded": false, "has_ferry": false, "is_multimodal": false, "measured": true, "modes": [ { "key": "bus", "label": "Bus", "route_count": 11, "trip_count": 1664, "trip_share_pct": 100.0 } ], "primary_mode": "bus", "primary_mode_label": "Bus", "route_count": 11, "trip_count": 1664 }, "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": [ "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 runs out in 28 days; renew before you certify.", "key": "current", "status": "at_risk" }, { "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": "at_risk", "summary": "This feed is close to NTD-ready. Service data runs out in 28 days; renew before you certify." }, "overall": { "grade": "F", "margin_to_lower_band": 53.0, "margin_to_next_band": 7.0, "score": 53.0 }, "recommendations": [ { "category": "accessibility", "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." }, { "category": "accessibility", "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." }, { "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": 879, "findings": [], "orphan_stops": 0, "single_stop_trips": 0, "trips_total": 1664 }, "route_map": { "drawn_route_count": 11, "has_shapes": true, "path": "data/artifacts/des-moines-area-regional-transit-authority-dart/geometry.geojson", "route_count": 11, "routes": [ { "color": "F3AC28", "color_name": "yellow", "has_shape": true, "id": "11", "label": "11", "long": "HUBBELL AVE", "short": "11", "text_color": "000000", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "7A4FA0", "color_name": "purple", "has_shape": true, "id": "12", "label": "12", "long": "EASTON BLVD", "short": "12", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "EF3F40", "color_name": "red", "has_shape": true, "id": "2", "label": "2", "long": "MLK JR PKWY", "short": "2", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "1C449C", "color_name": "blue", "has_shape": true, "id": "20", "label": "20", "long": "MILLS CIVIC PKWY", "short": "20", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "AF519B", "color_name": "pink", "has_shape": true, "id": "3", "label": "3", "long": "UNIVERSITY AVE", "short": "3", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "51289B", "color_name": "purple", "has_shape": true, "id": "4", "label": "4", "long": "CROSSTOWN", "short": "4", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "BB7D2B", "color_name": "brown", "has_shape": true, "id": "5", "label": "5", "long": "MERLE HAY RD", "short": "5", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "8D2B1E", "color_name": "brown", "has_shape": true, "id": "6", "label": "6", "long": "SE 14TH ST", "short": "6", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "F48640", "color_name": "orange", "has_shape": true, "id": "7", "label": "7", "long": "SW 9TH ST", "short": "7", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "4BA2D1", "color_name": "teal", "has_shape": true, "id": "8", "label": "8", "long": "WATROUS AVE", "short": "8", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "2E6EB4", "color_name": "teal", "has_shape": true, "id": "9", "label": "9", "long": "6TH AVE", "short": "9", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" } ], "stop_count": 880, "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 1664 trips have a shape in shapes.txt.", "status": "ready", "total_trips": 1664, "trips_with_shape": 1664 }, "snapshot_date": "2026-08-01", "top_fixes": [ { "code": "scorecard_feed_expiring_soon", "count": 1, "effort": "One export setting.", "fix": "Re-export with a validity window that reaches at least 60 days out.", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 59.0, "rank": 1, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "Service data runs out in 21 day(s).", "why": "When the calendar runs out, trip planners stop showing this agency. Fixing it now is calmer than after riders notice." }, { "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": 38.5, "rank": 2, "severity": "ERROR", "what": "The realtime feed's last update was about 3 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_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" }