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A field survey can start with the busiest stops.", "owner": "Likely your team", "points": 0.1, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "13 of 2715 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_stop_names_all_caps", "count": 2686, "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 2686 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." } ], "name": "completeness", "score": 77.5, "status": "measured", "summary": "100% of stops state wheelchair accessibility (13% marked accessible, 86% 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": 7, "instances_by_severity": { "ERROR": 0, "INFO": 0, "WARNING": 2913 }, "validator_version": "8.0.1" }, "findings": [ { "code": "mixed_case_recommended_field", "count": 2846, "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": "unused_shape", "count": 50, "effort": "One setting.", "fix": "Turn on 'remove unused shapes' (or the like) in your export tool.", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 6.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "The feed contains route shapes no trip uses.", "why": "Harmless to riders, but it bloats the feed and suggests stale export data." }, { "code": "stop_without_stop_time", "count": 12, "effort": "A review pass in your scheduling software.", "fix": "Remove retired stops from the export, or add them back to the trips that should serve them.", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 6.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "Some stops exist in the feed but no trip ever stops at them.", "why": "Riders may walk to a stop where no bus is scheduled to arrive." }, { "code": "missing_recommended_field", "count": 2, "effort": "A field at a time; not urgent.", "fix": "Review the flagged fields and fill in the ones your riders would use.", "owner": "", "points": 4.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "Some files leave out fields that GTFS asks for but does not require.", "why": "Recommended fields like agency_phone or stop descriptions make the feed more useful to riders and trip planners." }, { "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": "route_color_contrast", "count": 1, "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": "route_long_name_contains_short_name", "count": 1, "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'." } ], "name": "correctness", "score": 64.0, "status": "measured", "summary": "The MobilityData validator flagged 7 kinds of issue across 2913 instances (0 error, 2913 warning, 0 informational).", "weight": 0.35 }, "freshness": { "details": { "days_until_expiry": 13, "effective_expiry_date": "2026-09-05", "feed_end_date": "2026-09-05", "feed_start_date": "2026-05-24", "feed_version": "S1000326", "has_feed_info": true, "last_service_date": "2026-09-05", "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": 67.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "Service data runs out in 13 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": 21.7, "status": "measured", "summary": "Service data runs out in 13 day(s). Publish an updated feed soon or riders will lose trip planning.", "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 runs out in 13 days; renew to qualify.", "key": "current", "met": false }, { "detail": "States wheelchair access on 100% of stops and 100% of trips.", "key": "accessible", "met": true } ], "status": "not_yet", "summary": "One requirement remains for this feed to earn the conformance mark. Service data runs out in 13 days; renew to qualify.", "version": 2 }, "feed": { "license_note": "No stated data license in the Mobility Database; verify before publishing.", "reachable": true, "sha256": "b8f4e3a2030a44db629113e19eb8ecdbbc9718703383a684093d176876601dd1", "size_bytes": 6511199, "source_provenance": "unverified", "static_url": "http://proc.greaterdaytonrta.org/gtfs/google_transit.zip" }, "fetch": { "final_url": "http://proc.greaterdaytonrta.org/gtfs/google_transit.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": [ -84.33009, 39.60158, -84.05722, 39.92273 ], "lat": 39.75884, "lon": -84.19673, "stop_count": 2715 }, "mode_profile": { "ferry_only": false, "graded": false, "has_ferry": false, "is_multimodal": false, "measured": true, "modes": [ { "key": "bus", "label": "Bus", "route_count": 22, "trip_count": 4165, "trip_share_pct": 100.0 } ], "primary_mode": "bus", "primary_mode_label": "Bus", "route_count": 22, "trip_count": 4165 }, "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 runs out in 15 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 15 days; renew before you certify." }, "overall": { "grade": "F", "margin_to_lower_band": 57.6, "margin_to_next_band": 2.4, "score": 57.6 }, "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 (01, 02, 04, 06, 07, 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": 2672, "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": "2672 stop name(s) use abbreviations or symbols a screen reader may mispronounce, with no spoken form set (\"3RD @ PERRY\", \"3RD @ MARYS\", \"3RD @ GRIMES\", and more).", "why": "Riders who use a screen reader hear the raw name, so 'Main St & 2nd Ave' can come out as 'Main 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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 4165 trips have a shape in shapes.txt.", "status": "ready", "total_trips": 4165, "trips_with_shape": 4165 }, "snapshot_date": "2026-08-23", "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": 67.0, "rank": 1, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "Service data runs out in 13 day(s).", "why": "When the calendar runs out, trip planners stop showing this agency. Fixing it now is calmer than after riders notice." }, { "code": "mixed_case_recommended_field", "count": 2846, "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, "rank": 2, "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": "unused_shape", "count": 50, "effort": "One setting.", "fix": "Turn on 'remove unused shapes' (or the like) in your export tool.", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 6.0, "rank": 3, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "The feed contains route shapes no trip uses.", "why": "Harmless to riders, but it bloats the feed and suggests stale export data." } ], "validator_version": "8.0.1" }