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    "name": "Flixbus"
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          "score": 100.0,
          "stops_marked_accessible_pct": 0.0,
          "stops_marked_not_accessible_pct": 100.0,
          "stops_stated_pct": 100.0,
          "trips_stated_pct": 100.0
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        "cemv": {
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          "supported": false
        },
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          "fares": 0.0,
          "headsigns": 15.0,
          "stop_names": 15.0,
          "wheelchair_stops": 25.0,
          "wheelchair_trips": 15.0
        },
        "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": 179,
        "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
        },
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        "translations": {
          "feed_lang": "en",
          "has_translations": false,
          "languages": [],
          "translated_tables": [],
          "translation_count": 0
        },
        "trips": 179,
        "wheelchair_accessible_pct": 100.0,
        "wheelchair_boarding_pct": 100.0,
        "wheelchair_marked_accessible_pct": 0.0,
        "wheelchair_marked_not_accessible_pct": 100.0
      },
      "findings": [
        {
          "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_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": 77.5,
      "status": "measured",
      "summary": "100% of stops state wheelchair accessibility (0% marked accessible, 100% 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": 9,
        "instances_by_severity": {
          "ERROR": 3,
          "INFO": 10,
          "WARNING": 39
        },
        "validator_version": "8.0.1"
      },
      "findings": [
        {
          "code": "missing_required_column",
          "count": 3,
          "effort": "Often an export setting; ask your vendor if it recurs.",
          "fix": "Add the required column named in the finding to the flagged file.",
          "owner": "Likely your export tool",
          "points": 12.0,
          "severity": "ERROR",
          "what": "A file is missing a column that GTFS requires.",
          "why": "Apps may reject the whole file, so riders could lose the affected routes or stops."
        },
        {
          "code": "expired_calendar",
          "count": 35,
          "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": "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": "mixed_case_recommended_field",
          "count": 1,
          "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": 4.0,
          "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": "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": "service_window_outside_feed_period",
          "count": 7,
          "effort": "Two fields in feed_info.txt, or one export setting.",
          "fix": "Widen feed_start_date and feed_end_date to cover all service dates, or fix the dates that fall outside.",
          "owner": "Likely your export tool",
          "points": 0.8,
          "severity": "INFO",
          "what": "Some service dates fall outside the date window set in feed_info.txt.",
          "why": "feed_info.txt should span every day your service runs, so apps know when the data applies."
        },
        {
          "code": "unknown_column",
          "count": 2,
          "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."
        },
        {
          "code": "feed_valid_beyond_total_service_window",
          "count": 1,
          "effort": "Varies.",
          "fix": "Review the rule documentation for 'feed_valid_beyond_total_service_window' at https://gtfs-validator.mobilitydata.org/rules.html and check the flagged rows in your feed.",
          "owner": "",
          "points": 0.5,
          "severity": "INFO",
          "what": "Feed valid beyond total service window (flagged by the MobilityData validator).",
          "why": "See the linked rule for what this affects."
        }
      ],
      "name": "correctness",
      "score": 64.2,
      "status": "measured",
      "summary": "The MobilityData validator flagged 9 kinds of issue across 52 instances (3 error, 39 warning, 10 informational).",
      "weight": 0.35
    },
    "freshness": {
      "details": {
        "days_until_expiry": -1990,
        "effective_expiry_date": "2021-03-12",
        "feed_end_date": "2021-09-13",
        "feed_start_date": "2021-01-08",
        "feed_version": "20210108",
        "has_feed_info": true,
        "last_service_date": "2021-03-12",
        "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 1990 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 1990 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
    }
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    "feed_age_days": 0,
    "fetch_source": "origin",
    "level": "medium",
    "measured_categories": 3,
    "notes": [
      "Realtime quality was not measured this run. It does not count against the grade.",
      "The feed was downloaded from the configured feed URL. Publisher ownership of that URL is not verified."
    ],
    "rt_windows": 0,
    "total_categories": 4
  },
  "conformance": {
    "awarded": false,
    "criteria": [
      {
        "detail": "1 validator error to resolve.",
        "key": "valid",
        "met": false
      },
      {
        "detail": "Service data expired 1990 days ago.",
        "key": "current",
        "met": false
      },
      {
        "detail": "States wheelchair access on 100% of stops and 100% of trips.",
        "key": "accessible",
        "met": true
      }
    ],
    "status": "not_yet",
    "summary": "Two requirements remain for this feed to earn the conformance mark. 1 validator error to resolve. Service data expired 1990 days ago.",
    "version": 2
  },
  "feed": {
    "license_note": "No stated data license in the Mobility Database; verify before publishing.",
    "reachable": true,
    "sha256": "7554b4bdf4dbbc2843bd3a8cc56087e8565144d11332ae6ce14b682d7a12e600",
    "size_bytes": 13668,
    "source_provenance": "unverified",
    "static_url": "http://data.ndovloket.nl/flixbus/flixbus-us.zip"
  },
  "fetch": {
    "final_url": "http://data.ndovloket.nl/flixbus/flixbus-us.zip",
    "max_attempts": 4,
    "reader_archive_profile": "raw-v1",
    "source": "origin",
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  },
  "generated_at": "2026-08-10T00:00:00+00:00",
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      25.7782,
      -71.06158,
      42.344
    ],
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    "lon": -95.45635,
    "stop_count": 51
  },
  "mode_profile": {
    "ferry_only": false,
    "graded": false,
    "has_ferry": false,
    "is_multimodal": false,
    "measured": true,
    "modes": [
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        "key": "bus",
        "label": "Bus",
        "route_count": 9,
        "trip_count": 179,
        "trip_share_pct": 100.0
      }
    ],
    "primary_mode": "bus",
    "primary_mode_label": "Bus",
    "route_count": 9,
    "trip_count": 179
  },
  "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": [
      "FLIXBUS"
    ],
    "status": "unknown"
  },
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    "pillars": [
      {
        "detail": "Published at a public URL.",
        "key": "published",
        "status": "ready"
      },
      {
        "detail": "1 validator error to resolve.",
        "key": "valid",
        "status": "at_risk"
      },
      {
        "detail": "Service data expired 1977 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. 1 validator error to resolve. Service data expired 1977 days ago, so FTA would find the link out of date."
  },
  "overall": {
    "grade": "F",
    "margin_to_lower_band": 52.3,
    "margin_to_next_band": 7.7,
    "score": 52.3
  },
  "recommendations": [
    {
      "category": "accessibility",
      "code": "scorecard_route_color_low_contrast",
      "count": 9,
      "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": "9 route badge(s) pair a color and text color below the WCAG 4.5:1 contrast bar (FlixBus, FlixBus, FlixBus, FlixBus, FlixBus, and more).",
      "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": 13,
      "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": "13 stop name(s) use abbreviations or symbols a screen reader may mispronounce, with no spoken form set (\"Tempe (University/Rural)\", \"Washington DC (G St NW & 19th St NW)\", \"Houston Uptown/Upper Kirby\", 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": "2026-08-23",
    "feed_fetched_date": "2026-08-22",
    "kind": "freshness"
  },
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    "findings": [],
    "orphan_stops": 0,
    "single_stop_trips": 0,
    "trips_total": 179
  },
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    "drawn_route_count": 0,
    "has_shapes": false,
    "path": "data/artifacts/flixbus/geometry.geojson",
    "route_count": 9,
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      {
        "color": "73D700",
        "color_name": "yellow",
        "has_shape": false,
        "id": "FLIXBUS:2030",
        "label": "FlixBus",
        "long": "Los Angeles - Las Vegas",
        "short": "FlixBus",
        "text_color": "FFFFFF",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
      {
        "color": "73D700",
        "color_name": "yellow",
        "has_shape": false,
        "id": "FLIXBUS:2042",
        "label": "FlixBus",
        "long": "Phoenix - Tucson",
        "short": "FlixBus",
        "text_color": "FFFFFF",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
      {
        "color": "73D700",
        "color_name": "yellow",
        "has_shape": false,
        "id": "FLIXBUS:2047",
        "label": "FlixBus",
        "long": "Tucson - Phoenix - Flagstaff",
        "short": "FlixBus",
        "text_color": "FFFFFF",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
      {
        "color": "73D700",
        "color_name": "yellow",
        "has_shape": false,
        "id": "FLIXBUS:2240",
        "label": "FlixBus",
        "long": "Dallas - Houston",
        "short": "FlixBus",
        "text_color": "FFFFFF",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
      {
        "color": "73D700",
        "color_name": "yellow",
        "has_shape": false,
        "id": "FLIXBUS:2411",
        "label": "FlixBus",
        "long": "Miami-Orlando",
        "short": "FlixBus",
        "text_color": "FFFFFF",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
      {
        "color": "73D700",
        "color_name": "yellow",
        "has_shape": false,
        "id": "FLIXBUS:2601",
        "label": "FlixBus",
        "long": "New York-Baltimore-Washington-Richmond",
        "short": "FlixBus",
        "text_color": "FFFFFF",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
      {
        "color": "73D700",
        "color_name": "yellow",
        "has_shape": false,
        "id": "FLIXBUS:2605",
        "label": "FlixBus",
        "long": "BOS - DC",
        "short": "FlixBus",
        "text_color": "FFFFFF",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
      {
        "color": "73D700",
        "color_name": "yellow",
        "has_shape": false,
        "id": "FLIXBUS:N2030",
        "label": "FlixBus",
        "long": "Los Angeles - Las Vegas (Nightline)",
        "short": "FlixBus",
        "text_color": "FFFFFF",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
      {
        "color": "73D700",
        "color_name": "yellow",
        "has_shape": false,
        "id": "FLIXBUS:N2210",
        "label": "FlixBus",
        "long": "Austin - New Orleans",
        "short": "FlixBus",
        "text_color": "FFFFFF",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      }
    ],
    "stop_count": 51,
    "stop_points_capped": false
  },
  "rubric_version": "1.3",
  "schema_version": "1.18",
  "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": "No trips in this feed have a shape_id linked to a row in shapes.txt.",
    "fix": "Add shapes.txt with a shape_id for each trip's path, and set trips.shape_id to match. Reduced, Rural, and Tribal NTD reporters need this in their published GTFS starting Report Year 2026; Full Reporters needed it in Report Year 2025.",
    "status": "not_ready",
    "total_trips": 179,
    "trips_with_shape": 0
  },
  "snapshot_date": "2026-08-23",
  "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 1990 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": "missing_required_column",
      "count": 3,
      "effort": "Often an export setting; ask your vendor if it recurs.",
      "fix": "Add the required column named in the finding to the flagged file.",
      "owner": "Likely your export tool",
      "points": 12.0,
      "rank": 2,
      "severity": "ERROR",
      "what": "A file is missing a column that GTFS requires.",
      "why": "Apps may reject the whole file, so riders could lose the affected routes or stops."
    },
    {
      "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,
      "rank": 3,
      "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."
    }
  ],
  "validator_version": "8.0.1"
}