{ "agency": { "id": "fredericksburg-regional-transit-2430", "name": "Fredericksburg Regional Transit", "subdivision_code": "US-VA", "subdivision_name": "Virginia" }, "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": 15.0, "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": 879, "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 }, "stops": 303, "translations": { "feed_lang": null, "has_translations": false, "languages": [], "translated_tables": [], "translation_count": 0 }, "trips": 879, "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": 303, "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": "303 of 303 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": 879, "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": "879 of 879 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_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": 37.5, "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 not published.", "weight": 0.25 }, "correctness": { "details": { "distinct_codes": 8, "instances_by_severity": { "ERROR": 0, "INFO": 2, "WARNING": 305 }, "validator_version": "8.0.1" }, "findings": [ { "code": "fast_travel_between_consecutive_stops", "count": 174, "effort": "A few minutes per flagged trip.", "fix": "Check the flagged stop times for transposed minutes.", "owner": "", "points": 8.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "Some scheduled trips move faster between stops than a bus can.", "why": "Usually a typo'd stop time; riders get arrival times no bus can meet." }, { "code": "non_ascii_or_non_printable_char", "count": 80, "effort": "A planned ID change, not a quick text cleanup.", "fix": "Only change the flagged IDs if an app needs basic ASCII values. Update each place that uses the ID. Keep all names and headsigns in their original language.", "owner": "", "points": 8.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "Some internal IDs use characters outside the basic text set.", "why": "These IDs are valid UTF-8 data. This warning is only about support in older apps. It does not mean that names in other languages are wrong." }, { "code": "expired_calendar", "count": 40, "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": "leading_or_trailing_whitespaces", "count": 5, "effort": "Usually one export setting.", "fix": "Trim leading and trailing spaces on export. The scorecard's auto-fixed copy already does this.", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 4.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "Some values have extra spaces at the start or end.", "why": "A stray space can break a match, so a stop or route may fail to link across files." }, { "code": "mixed_case_recommended_field", "count": 4, "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": "missing_recommended_file", "count": 1, "effort": "One small file, set once in export settings.", "fix": "Add feed_info.txt with publisher name, URL, language, and feed_start_date/feed_end_date.", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 4.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "A file GTFS asks for (usually feed_info.txt) is missing.", "why": "feed_info.txt tells apps who publishes the feed and when it expires; without it nobody is warned before data goes stale." }, { "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": "unknown_file", "count": 2, "effort": "A quick look at the flagged file.", "fix": "Check the flagged file name for a typo of a standard GTFS file. Remove it if it is a vendor extra.", "owner": "", "points": 0.5, "severity": "INFO", "what": "The feed includes a file that is not part of the GTFS spec.", "why": "Apps ignore files they don't know, and a stray file can hide a misspelled standard file name." } ], "name": "correctness", "score": 61.5, "status": "measured", "summary": "The MobilityData validator flagged 8 kinds of issue across 307 instances (0 error, 305 warning, 2 informational).", "weight": 0.35 }, "freshness": { "details": { "days_until_expiry": -510, "effective_expiry_date": "2025-03-31", "feed_end_date": null, "feed_start_date": null, "feed_version": null, "has_feed_info": false, "last_service_date": "2025-03-31", "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 510 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_missing_feed_info_dates", "count": 1, "effort": "Two fields, set once in export settings.", "fix": "Add feed_info.txt with feed_start_date and feed_end_date to your export.", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 15.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "feed_info.txt is missing its start/end dates (the file itself is absent)", "why": "Apps and this scorecard can't warn anyone before the feed goes stale without stated validity dates." } ], "name": "freshness", "score": 0.0, "status": "measured", "summary": "Service data ended 510 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": "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 expired 510 days ago.", "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": "Two requirements remain for this feed to earn the conformance mark. Service data expired 510 days ago. States wheelchair access on 0% of stops and 0% of trips; the mark needs 90% of each.", "version": 2 }, "feed": { "license_note": "No stated data license in the Mobility Database; verify before publishing.", "reachable": true, "sha256": "57559b8d2e92112ef7ee01d69ef6f3e77f10b57865da7208b251ded3faddfed8", "size_bytes": 372380, "source_provenance": "unverified", "static_url": "https://www.fredericksburgva.gov/DocumentCenter/View/28958/FXBGO-GTFS-Q1-CY2025" }, "fetch": { "final_url": "https://www.fredericksburgva.gov/DocumentCenter/View/28958/FXBGO-GTFS-Q1-CY2025", "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": "2026-08-10T00:00:00+00:00", "geo": { "bbox": [ -77.59979, 38.19558, -77.40052, 38.48148 ], "lat": 38.29865, "lon": -77.48865, "stop_count": 303 }, "mode_profile": { "ferry_only": false, "graded": false, "has_ferry": false, "is_multimodal": false, "measured": true, "modes": [ { "key": "bus", "label": "Bus", "route_count": 17, "trip_count": 879, "trip_share_pct": 100.0 } ], "primary_mode": "bus", "primary_mode_label": "Bus", "route_count": 17, "trip_count": 879 }, "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 497 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 497 days ago, so FTA would find the link out of date." }, "overall": { "grade": "F", "margin_to_lower_band": 38.6, "margin_to_next_band": 21.4, "score": 38.6 }, "recommendations": [ { "category": "accessibility", "code": "scorecard_route_color_low_contrast", "count": 2, "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": "2 route badge(s) pair a color and text color below the WCAG 4.5:1 contrast bar (Route 10, D1).", "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": 251, "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": "251 stop name(s) use abbreviations or symbols a screen reader may mispronounce, with no spoken form set (\"103 - Airport Ave. / South St.\", \"104 - Howard St. / South St.\", \"105 - Howard St. / Mayfield 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." } ], "recompute": { "as_of": "2026-08-23", "feed_fetched_date": "2026-08-22", "kind": "freshness" }, "routability": { "boardable_stops": 303, "findings": [], "orphan_stops": 0, "single_stop_trips": 0, "trips_total": 879 }, "route_map": { "drawn_route_count": 16, "has_shapes": true, "path": "data/artifacts/fredericksburg-regional-transit-2430/geometry.geojson", "route_count": 17, "routes": [ { "color": "2F8D3C", "color_name": "green", "has_shape": true, "id": "D1_D1_OldeForge_Woodlawn Shopping Center / Train Station / Chatham Heights / Olde Forge_FF2F8D3C", "label": "D1", "long": "D1_OldeForge", "short": "D1", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "58B064", "color_name": "gray", "has_shape": true, "id": "D2_D2_Geico_England Run / Geico_FF58B064", "label": "D2", "long": "D2_Geico", "short": "D2", "text_color": "000000", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "8DD397", "color_name": "gray", "has_shape": false, "id": "D3_D3_Stafford Market Place / Doc Stone / Courthouse_FF8DD397", "label": "D3", "long": "", "short": "D3", "text_color": "000000", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "8DD397", "color_name": "gray", "has_shape": true, "id": "D3_D3_StaffordMarketPlace_Stafford Market Place / Doc Stone / Courthouse_FF8DD397", "label": "D3", "long": "D3_StaffordMarketPlace", "short": "D3", "text_color": "000000", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "12691E", "color_name": "green", "has_shape": true, "id": "D4_D4_VistaWoods_Stafford Market Place / Doc Stone / Vista Woods_FF12691E", "label": "D4", "long": "D4_VistaWoods", "short": "D4", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "46B8B8", "color_name": "teal", "has_shape": true, "id": "S1_S1_SpotsyTownCenter_Lee's Hill Center/Spotsylvania Town Center_FF46B8B8", "label": "S1", "long": "S1_SpotsyTownCenter", "short": "S1", "text_color": "000000", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "77DEDE", "color_name": "white", "has_shape": true, "id": "S4_S4_LeesHill_Lee\u2019s Hill Center / Spotsylvania Courthouse_FF77DEDE", "label": "S4", "long": "S4_LeesHill", "short": "S4", "text_color": "000000", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "AFFFFF", "color_name": "white", "has_shape": true, "id": "S5_S5_Germanna_Lee\u2019s Hill Center / Germanna Community College_FFAFFFFF", "label": "S5", "long": "S5_Germanna", "short": "S5", "text_color": "000000", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "7B3361", "color_name": "brown", "has_shape": true, "id": "VF1 PM_VF1 PM_VRE_VF1 PM_FF7B3361", "label": "VF1 PM", "long": "VF1 PM_VRE", "short": "VF1 PM", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "00460A", "color_name": "black", "has_shape": true, "id": "_D5_StaffordCourthouse_Stafford Courthouse / FRED Central_FF00460A", "label": "D5_StaffordCourthouse", "long": "D5_StaffordCourthouse", "short": "", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "F51414", "color_name": "red", "has_shape": true, "id": "_Route 10_FXBGO! Central to Spotsylvania Mall_FFF51414", "label": "Route 10", "long": "Route 10", "short": "", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "ED7D31", "color_name": "orange", "has_shape": true, "id": "_Route 11_FXBGO! Central to Lee's Hill Centre via Rt. 1_FFED7D31", "label": "Route 11", "long": "Route 11", "short": "", "text_color": "000000", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "FFD965", "color_name": "yellow", "has_shape": true, "id": "_Route 12_FXBGO! Central to Lee's Hill Center_FFFFD965", "label": "Route 12", "long": "Route 12", "short": "", "text_color": "000000", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "70AD47", "color_name": "gray", "has_shape": true, "id": "_Route 13_FXBGO! Central to Wegmans/ Central Park_FF70AD47", "label": "Route 13", "long": "Route 13", "short": "", "text_color": "000000", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "000000", "color_name": "black", "has_shape": true, "id": "_Route 14_riverclub_FF000000", "label": "Route 14", "long": "Route 14", "short": "", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "2E75B5", "color_name": "teal", "has_shape": true, "id": "_Route 15_Downtown_FF2E75B5", "label": "Route 15", "long": "Route 15", "short": "", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "7B3361", "color_name": "brown", "has_shape": true, "id": "_VF1 _VRE_Fredericksburg VRE Feeder Bus Service_FF7B3361", "label": "VF1 _VRE", "long": "VF1 _VRE", "short": "", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" } ], "stop_count": 303, "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 879 trips have a shape in shapes.txt.", "status": "ready", "total_trips": 879, "trips_with_shape": 879 }, "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 510 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": 303, "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": 2, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "303 of 303 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": 879, "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": 3, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "879 of 879 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." } ], "validator_version": "8.0.1" }