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A field survey can start with the busiest stops.", "owner": "Likely your team", "points": 25.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "1611 of 1611 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": 5820, "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": "5820 of 5820 trips don't say whether the vehicle is wheelchair accessible.", "why": "Even with accessible stops, riders need to know the transit vehicle 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." }, { "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": 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": 9, "instances_by_severity": { "ERROR": 0, "INFO": 2, "WARNING": 78 }, "validator_version": "8.0.1" }, "findings": [ { "code": "equal_shape_distance_diff_coordinates_distance_below_threshold", "count": 38, "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": 6.0, "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": "fast_travel_between_consecutive_stops", "count": 30, "effort": "A few minutes per flagged trip.", "fix": "Check the flagged stop times for transposed minutes.", "owner": "", "points": 6.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "Some scheduled trips move faster between stops than a transit vehicle can.", "why": "Usually a typo'd stop time; riders get arrival times no transit vehicle can meet." }, { "code": "route_long_name_contains_short_name", "count": 4, "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": 4.0, "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": "route_color_contrast", "count": 2, "effort": "One field per route.", "fix": "Pick a darker/lighter route_text_color for the flagged routes.", "owner": "", "points": 4.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "Some route colors don't contrast with their text color.", "why": "Route badges get hard to read, most of all for riders with low vision." }, { "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": "stop_too_far_from_shape_using_user_distance", "count": 1, "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": 4.0, "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 path or point riders to the wrong boarding location." }, { "code": "stops_match_shape_out_of_order", "count": 1, "effort": "A few minutes per flagged trip.", "fix": "Check the stop order and the shape direction in your scheduling software; the shape is often drawn backwards.", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 4.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "On some trips the stops fall along the route line in a different order than the schedule lists.", "why": "Trip planners can draw the transit vehicle doubling back or skipping ahead, which confuses riders reading the map." }, { "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." } ], "name": "correctness", "score": 63.5, "status": "measured", "summary": "The MobilityData validator flagged 9 kinds of issue across 80 instances (0 error, 78 warning, 2 informational).", "weight": 0.35 }, "freshness": { "details": { "days_until_expiry": 34, "effective_expiry_date": "2026-09-26", "feed_end_date": "2026-09-26", "feed_start_date": "2026-05-24", "feed_version": "MAY 26_20260805", "has_feed_info": true, "last_service_date": "2026-09-26", "seasonal_boundary": false, "service_horizon_review_years": 10, "service_horizon_status": "within_review_threshold", "service_type": "fixed" }, "findings": [], "name": "freshness", "score": 56.7, "status": "measured", "summary": "Service data covers the next 34 days.", "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": "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": "Passes validation with no errors.", "key": "valid", "met": true }, { "detail": "Service data covers the next 34 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": "One requirement remains for this feed to earn the conformance mark. States wheelchair access on 0% of stops and 0% of trips; the mark needs 90% of each.", "version": 2 }, "feed": { "license_note": "License: https://ridetrinitymetro.org/gtfs-data/", "reachable": true, "sha256": "f58e22d929f5548ccb2136c1c90198098b245a097d8679901cd7afafb4b14472", "size_bytes": 1568819, "source_provenance": "unverified", "static_url": "http://sched.ridetm.org/gtfs/fwtatransitdata.zip" }, "fetch": { "final_url": "http://sched.ridetm.org/gtfs/fwtatransitdata.zip", "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": "2026-08-21T00:00:00+00:00", "geo": { "bbox": [ -97.47942, 32.56348, -97.0071, 32.96537 ], "lat": 32.73141, "lon": -97.32775, "stop_count": 1611 }, "mode_profile": { "ferry_only": false, "graded": false, "has_ferry": false, "is_multimodal": true, "measured": true, "modes": [ { "key": "tram", "label": "Tram / light rail", "route_count": 1, "trip_count": 222, "trip_share_pct": 3.8 }, { "key": "bus", "label": "Bus", "route_count": 33, "trip_count": 5598, "trip_share_pct": 96.2 } ], "primary_mode": "bus", "primary_mode_label": "Bus", "route_count": 34, "trip_count": 5820 }, "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": [ "Trinity Metro", "Grapevine Visitors Shuttle" ], "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 36 days.", "key": "current", "status": "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": "ready", "summary": "Published at a public URL, valid, current, and identified with agency_id: the four feed checks for RY2026 all hold here. Only your own D-10 and P-50 filings make that official; this is a heads-up, not a determination." }, "overall": { "grade": "F", "margin_to_lower_band": 58.4, "margin_to_next_band": 1.6, "score": 58.4 }, "recommendations": [ { "category": "accessibility", "code": "scorecard_route_color_low_contrast", "count": 23, "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": "23 route badge(s) pair a color and text color below the WCAG 4.5:1 contrast bar (004, 011, Orange Line, 016, Blue Line, 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": 1520, "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": "1520 stop name(s) use abbreviations or symbols a screen reader may mispronounce, with no spoken form set (\"Hemphill & Berry\", \"Dr.Dennis Dunkins Transfer Center\", \"Henderson & Peach\", 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": "2026-08-23", "feed_fetched_date": "2026-08-22", "kind": "freshness" }, "routability": { "boardable_stops": 1601, "findings": [], "orphan_stops": 0, "single_stop_trips": 0, "trips_total": 5820 }, "route_map": { "drawn_route_count": 34, "has_shapes": true, "path": "data/artifacts/fort-worth-transit-authority/geometry.geojson", "route_count": 34, "routes": [ { "color": "522B7F", "color_name": "purple", "has_shape": true, "id": "8266", "label": "001", "long": "Hemphill", "short": "001", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "522B7F", "color_name": "purple", "has_shape": true, "id": "8267", "label": "002", "long": "Camp Bowie", "short": "002", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "8785CA", "color_name": "purple", "has_shape": true, "id": "8268", "label": "004", "long": "East Rosedale", "short": "004", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "522B7F", "color_name": "purple", "has_shape": true, "id": "8269", "label": "005", "long": "Evans/TCC South", "short": "005", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "522B7F", "color_name": "purple", "has_shape": true, "id": "8270", "label": "006", "long": "8th Ave/Mccart", "short": "006", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "8785CA", "color_name": "purple", "has_shape": true, "id": "8271", "label": "011", "long": "N. 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"000000", "color_name": "black", "has_shape": true, "id": "8305", "label": "TEXRail", "long": "TEXRail", "short": "TEXRail", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Tram / light rail" }, { "color": "A02134", "color_name": "red", "has_shape": true, "id": "8312", "label": "61X", "long": "Normandal Express", "short": "61X", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" } ], "stop_count": 1611, "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": "All 5820 trips have a shape in shapes.txt.", "status": "ready", "total_trips": 5820, "trips_with_shape": 5820 }, "snapshot_date": "2026-08-23", "top_fixes": [ { "code": "scorecard_wheelchair_boarding_unknown", "count": 1611, "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": 1, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "1611 of 1611 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": 5820, "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, "rank": 2, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "5820 of 5820 trips don't say whether the vehicle is wheelchair accessible.", "why": "Even with accessible stops, riders need to know the transit vehicle itself can take them." }, { "code": "equal_shape_distance_diff_coordinates_distance_below_threshold", "count": 38, "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": 6.0, "rank": 3, "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." } ], "validator_version": "8.0.1" }