{ "agency": { "country": "CA", "id": "hamilton-street-railway", "name": "Hamilton Street Railway (HSR)", "subdivision_code": "CA-ON", "subdivision_name": "Ontario" }, "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": 15.0, "headsigns": 15.0, "stop_names": 14.5, "wheelchair_stops": 0.0, "wheelchair_trips": 0.0 }, "fare_free": false, "fares": { "applied": true, "has_leg_rules": false, "has_products": false, "has_transfer_rules": false, "model": "legacy", "product_count": 0 }, "flex": { "booking_reachable": false, "booking_rule_count": 0, "has_booking_rules": false, "has_flex": false }, "has_fares": true, "headsign_applicable_trips": 14245, "headsign_loop_exempt_trips": 0, "headsign_pct": 100.0, "headsign_scored_pct": 100.0, "headsign_stop_headsign_trips": 0, "mixed_case_stop_name_pct": 96.3, "pathways": { "has_entrances": false, "has_levels": false, "has_pathways": false, "has_stations": true, "has_step_free": false, "pathway_count": 0 }, "stops": 2353, "translations": { "feed_lang": "en", "has_translations": false, "languages": [], "translated_tables": [], "translation_count": 0 }, "trips": 14245, "unmeasured_components": [], "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", "consequence": { "absences": [ "Rider-trip figures come from the United States National Transit Database, which does not cover this feed's country.", "This record does not store transit need. The agency page and its reports add it from the need overlays and name their date." ], "code": "scorecard_wheelchair_boarding_unknown", "line": "Fixing this covers all 2,353 stops in the feed.", "reach": { "affected": 2353, "basis": "stops", "basis_label": "stops", "reason": "", "share": 1.0, "total": 2353, "total_source": "geo.stop_count" }, "ridership": { "annual_rider_trips": null, "ntd_id": null, "reason": "outside_ridership_scope" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "ca_cimd", "tier": null } }, "count": 2353, "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": "2353 of 2353 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", "consequence": { "absences": [ "Rider-trip figures come from the United States National Transit Database, which does not cover this feed's country.", "This record does not store transit need. The agency page and its reports add it from the need overlays and name their date." ], "code": "scorecard_wheelchair_accessible_unknown", "line": "Fixing this covers all 14,245 trips in the feed.", "reach": { "affected": 14245, "basis": "trips", "basis_label": "trips", "reason": "", "share": 1.0, "total": 14245, "total_source": "routability.trips_total" }, "ridership": { "annual_rider_trips": null, "ntd_id": null, "reason": "outside_ridership_scope" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "ca_cimd", "tier": null } }, "count": 14245, "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": "14245 of 14245 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_feed_contact", "consequence": { "absences": [ "Rider-trip figures come from the United States National Transit Database, which does not cover this feed's country.", "This record does not store transit need. The agency page and its reports add it from the need overlays and name their date." ], "code": "scorecard_no_feed_contact", "line": "This one is about the feed as a whole, so there is no share of it to count.", "reach": { "affected": null, "basis": "none", "basis_label": null, "reason": "feed_level", "share": null, "total": null, "total_source": null }, "ridership": { "annual_rider_trips": null, "ntd_id": null, "reason": "outside_ridership_scope" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "ca_cimd", "tier": null } }, "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": "App makers and state data programs have nobody to email when they spot a problem. Small errors then sit in the feed for months." }, { "code": "scorecard_station_no_pathways", "consequence": { "absences": [ "Rider-trip figures come from the United States National Transit Database, which does not cover this feed's country.", "This record does not store transit need. The agency page and its reports add it from the need overlays and name their date." ], "code": "scorecard_station_no_pathways", "line": "What this one counts is not stops, routes, or trips, so there is no network share.", "reach": { "affected": null, "basis": "none", "basis_label": null, "reason": "not_network_countable", "share": null, "total": null, "total_source": null }, "ridership": { "annual_rider_trips": null, "ntd_id": null, "reason": "outside_ridership_scope" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "ca_cimd", "tier": null } }, "count": 1, "effort": "Worth it for multi-level or large stations; flat stops don't need it.", "fix": "Add pathways.txt to link entrances, platforms, and elevators. Give each one a level.", "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": 52.0, "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": 14, "instances_by_severity": { "ERROR": 960, "INFO": 1, "WARNING": 16378 }, "validator_version": "8.0.1" }, "findings": [ { "code": "trip_distance_exceeds_shape_distance", "consequence": { "absences": [ "Rider-trip figures come from the United States National Transit Database, which does not cover this feed's country.", "This record does not store transit need. The agency page and its reports add it from the need overlays and name their date." ], "code": "trip_distance_exceeds_shape_distance", "line": "This is a validator notice, and the validator decides what each instance covers, so no share of the network can be read from it here.", "reach": { "affected": null, "basis": "none", "basis_label": null, "reason": "validator_notice", "share": null, "total": null, "total_source": null }, "ridership": { "annual_rider_trips": null, "ntd_id": null, "reason": "outside_ridership_scope" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "ca_cimd", "tier": null } }, "count": 960, "effort": "Varies.", "fix": "Review the rule documentation for 'trip_distance_exceeds_shape_distance' at https://gtfs-validator.mobilitydata.org/rules.html and check the flagged rows in your feed.", "owner": "", "points": 24.0, "severity": "ERROR", "what": "Trip distance exceeds shape distance (flagged by the MobilityData validator).", "why": "See the linked rule for what this affects." }, { "code": "mixed_case_recommended_field", "consequence": { "absences": [ "Rider-trip figures come from the United States National Transit Database, which does not cover this feed's country.", "This record does not store transit need. The agency page and its reports add it from the need overlays and name their date." ], "code": "mixed_case_recommended_field", "line": "This is a validator notice, and the validator decides what each instance covers, so no share of the network can be read from it here.", "reach": { "affected": null, "basis": "none", "basis_label": null, "reason": "validator_notice", "share": null, "total": null, "total_source": null }, "ridership": { "annual_rider_trips": null, "ntd_id": null, "reason": "outside_ridership_scope" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "ca_cimd", "tier": null } }, "count": 15921, "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": "trip_distance_exceeds_shape_distance_below_threshold", "consequence": { "absences": [ "Rider-trip figures come from the United States National Transit Database, which does not cover this feed's country.", "This record does not store transit need. The agency page and its reports add it from the need overlays and name their date." ], "code": "trip_distance_exceeds_shape_distance_below_threshold", "line": "This is a validator notice, and the validator decides what each instance covers, so no share of the network can be read from it here.", "reach": { "affected": null, "basis": "none", "basis_label": null, "reason": "validator_notice", "share": null, "total": null, "total_source": null }, "ridership": { "annual_rider_trips": null, "ntd_id": null, "reason": "outside_ridership_scope" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "ca_cimd", "tier": null } }, "count": 148, "effort": "Usually an export-tool fix, not hand editing.", "fix": "Re-generate shape_dist_traveled on export so stop and shape distances use the same units.", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 8.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "On some trips the stop distances run a little past the end of the route line.", "why": "The stop and shape distance values don't quite line up, so any math that uses them can drift." }, { "code": "equal_shape_distance_diff_coordinates_distance_below_threshold", "consequence": { "absences": [ "Rider-trip figures come from the United States National Transit Database, which does not cover this feed's country.", "This record does not store transit need. The agency page and its reports add it from the need overlays and name their date." ], "code": "equal_shape_distance_diff_coordinates_distance_below_threshold", "line": "This is a validator notice, and the validator decides what each instance covers, so no share of the network can be read from it here.", "reach": { "affected": null, "basis": "none", "basis_label": null, "reason": "validator_notice", "share": null, "total": null, "total_source": null }, "ridership": { "annual_rider_trips": null, "ntd_id": null, "reason": "outside_ridership_scope" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "ca_cimd", "tier": null } }, "count": 131, "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": 8.0, "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": "unusable_trip", "consequence": { "absences": [ "Rider-trip figures come from the United States National Transit Database, which does not cover this feed's country.", "This record does not store transit need. The agency page and its reports add it from the need overlays and name their date." ], "code": "unusable_trip", "line": "This is a validator notice, and the validator decides what each instance covers, so no share of the network can be read from it here.", "reach": { "affected": null, "basis": "none", "basis_label": null, "reason": "validator_notice", "share": null, "total": null, "total_source": null }, "ridership": { "annual_rider_trips": null, "ntd_id": null, "reason": "outside_ridership_scope" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "ca_cimd", "tier": null } }, "count": 92, "effort": "Worth a vendor question if it appears often.", "fix": "Check the flagged trips in your scheduling software; remove them or restore their missing stops.", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 8.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "Some trips serve fewer than two stops.", "why": "A trip with one stop can't be ridden; planners ignore it and it may signal an export problem." }, { "code": "unused_trip", "consequence": { "absences": [ "Rider-trip figures come from the United States National Transit Database, which does not cover this feed's country.", "This record does not store transit need. The agency page and its reports add it from the need overlays and name their date." ], "code": "unused_trip", "line": "This is a validator notice, and the validator decides what each instance covers, so no share of the network can be read from it here.", "reach": { "affected": null, "basis": "none", "basis_label": null, "reason": "validator_notice", "share": null, "total": null, "total_source": null }, "ridership": { "annual_rider_trips": null, "ntd_id": null, "reason": "outside_ridership_scope" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "ca_cimd", "tier": null } }, "count": 40, "effort": "Varies.", "fix": "Review the rule documentation for 'unused_trip' at https://gtfs-validator.mobilitydata.org/rules.html and check the flagged rows in your feed.", "owner": "", "points": 6.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "Unused trip (flagged by the MobilityData validator).", "why": "See the linked rule for what this affects." }, { "code": "service_has_no_active_day_of_the_week", "consequence": { "absences": [ "Rider-trip figures come from the United States National Transit Database, which does not cover this feed's country.", "This record does not store transit need. The agency page and its reports add it from the need overlays and name their date." ], "code": "service_has_no_active_day_of_the_week", "line": "This is a validator notice, and the validator decides what each instance covers, so no share of the network can be read from it here.", "reach": { "affected": null, "basis": "none", "basis_label": null, "reason": "validator_notice", "share": null, "total": null, "total_source": null }, "ridership": { "annual_rider_trips": null, "ntd_id": null, "reason": "outside_ridership_scope" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "ca_cimd", "tier": null } }, "count": 28, "effort": "A few minutes in your scheduling software.", "fix": "Delete the empty calendars or set their service days.", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 6.0, "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", "consequence": { "absences": [ "Rider-trip figures come from the United States National Transit Database, which does not cover this feed's country.", "This record does not store transit need. The agency page and its reports add it from the need overlays and name their date." ], "code": "expired_calendar", "line": "This is a validator notice, and the validator decides what each instance covers, so no share of the network can be read from it here.", "reach": { "affected": null, "basis": "none", "basis_label": null, "reason": "validator_notice", "share": null, "total": null, "total_source": null }, "ridership": { "annual_rider_trips": null, "ntd_id": null, "reason": "outside_ridership_scope" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "ca_cimd", "tier": null } }, "count": 10, "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": "stop_too_far_from_shape_using_user_distance", "consequence": { "absences": [ "Rider-trip figures come from the United States National Transit Database, which does not cover this feed's country.", "This record does not store transit need. The agency page and its reports add it from the need overlays and name their date." ], "code": "stop_too_far_from_shape_using_user_distance", "line": "This is a validator notice, and the validator decides what each instance covers, so no share of the network can be read from it here.", "reach": { "affected": null, "basis": "none", "basis_label": null, "reason": "validator_notice", "share": null, "total": null, "total_source": null }, "ridership": { "annual_rider_trips": null, "ntd_id": null, "reason": "outside_ridership_scope" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "ca_cimd", "tier": null } }, "count": 4, "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 streets or point riders to the wrong corner." }, { "code": "missing_feed_contact_email_and_url", "consequence": { "absences": [ "Rider-trip figures come from the United States National Transit Database, which does not cover this feed's country.", "This record does not store transit need. The agency page and its reports add it from the need overlays and name their date." ], "code": "missing_feed_contact_email_and_url", "line": "This is a validator notice, and the validator decides what each instance covers, so no share of the network can be read from it here.", "reach": { "affected": null, "basis": "none", "basis_label": null, "reason": "validator_notice", "share": null, "total": null, "total_source": null }, "ridership": { "annual_rider_trips": null, "ntd_id": null, "reason": "outside_ridership_scope" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "ca_cimd", "tier": null } }, "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": "missing_recommended_field", "consequence": { "absences": [ "Rider-trip figures come from the United States National Transit Database, which does not cover this feed's country.", "This record does not store transit need. The agency page and its reports add it from the need overlays and name their date." ], "code": "missing_recommended_field", "line": "This is a validator notice, and the validator decides what each instance covers, so no share of the network can be read from it here.", "reach": { "affected": null, "basis": "none", "basis_label": null, "reason": "validator_notice", "share": null, "total": null, "total_source": null }, "ridership": { "annual_rider_trips": null, "ntd_id": null, "reason": "outside_ridership_scope" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "ca_cimd", "tier": null } }, "count": 1, "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": "route_long_name_contains_short_name", "consequence": { "absences": [ "Rider-trip figures come from the United States National Transit Database, which does not cover this feed's country.", "This record does not store transit need. The agency page and its reports add it from the need overlays and name their date." ], "code": "route_long_name_contains_short_name", "line": "This is a validator notice, and the validator decides what each instance covers, so no share of the network can be read from it here.", "reach": { "affected": null, "basis": "none", "basis_label": null, "reason": "validator_notice", "share": null, "total": null, "total_source": null }, "ridership": { "annual_rider_trips": null, "ntd_id": null, "reason": "outside_ridership_scope" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "ca_cimd", "tier": null } }, "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'." }, { "code": "stop_too_far_from_shape", "consequence": { "absences": [ "Rider-trip figures come from the United States National Transit Database, which does not cover this feed's country.", "This record does not store transit need. The agency page and its reports add it from the need overlays and name their date." ], "code": "stop_too_far_from_shape", "line": "This is a validator notice, and the validator decides what each instance covers, so no share of the network can be read from it here.", "reach": { "affected": null, "basis": "none", "basis_label": null, "reason": "validator_notice", "share": null, "total": null, "total_source": null }, "ridership": { "annual_rider_trips": null, "ntd_id": null, "reason": "outside_ridership_scope" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "ca_cimd", "tier": null } }, "count": 1, "effort": "A few minutes per flagged stop.", "fix": "Check the flagged stops' coordinates and the route shape in your scheduling software; re-snap whichever is misplaced.", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 4.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "Some stops sit far from the route line they belong to.", "why": "Trip planners may draw the bus route through the wrong streets or point riders to the wrong corner." }, { "code": "unused_station", "consequence": { "absences": [ "Rider-trip figures come from the United States National Transit Database, which does not cover this feed's country.", "This record does not store transit need. The agency page and its reports add it from the need overlays and name their date." ], "code": "unused_station", "line": "This is a validator notice, and the validator decides what each instance covers, so no share of the network can be read from it here.", "reach": { "affected": null, "basis": "none", "basis_label": null, "reason": "validator_notice", "share": null, "total": null, "total_source": null }, "ridership": { "annual_rider_trips": null, "ntd_id": null, "reason": "outside_ridership_scope" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "ca_cimd", "tier": null } }, "count": 1, "effort": "Varies.", "fix": "Review the rule documentation for 'unused_station' at https://gtfs-validator.mobilitydata.org/rules.html and check the flagged rows in your feed.", "owner": "", "points": 0.5, "severity": "INFO", "what": "Unused station (flagged by the MobilityData validator).", "why": "See the linked rule for what this affects." } ], "name": "correctness", "score": 5.5, "status": "measured", "summary": "The MobilityData validator flagged 14 kinds of issue across 17339 instances (960 error, 16378 warning, 1 informational).", "weight": 0.35 }, "freshness": { "details": { "days_until_expiry": 67, "effective_expiry_date": "2026-12-26", "expiry_limited_by": "both", "feed_end_date": "2026-12-26", "feed_start_date": "2026-09-06", "feed_version": "2026 Fall_20261001", "has_feed_info": true, "last_service_date": "2026-12-26", "seasonal_boundary": false, "service_horizon_review_years": 10, "service_horizon_status": "within_review_threshold", "service_type": "fixed" }, "findings": [], "name": "freshness", "score": 100.0, "status": "measured", "summary": "Service data covers the next 67 days.", "weight": 0.2 }, "realtime": { "details": { "alerts_content": { "alerts": 23, "ended_over_30_days_ago": 0, "with_cause_and_effect": 21, "with_description": 23, "with_header_text": 23, "with_informed_entity": 23 }, "configured_kinds": [ "trip_updates", "vehicle_positions", "service_alerts" ], "coverage_pct": null, "kinds_configured": 3, "kinds_reachable": 1, "reachable_kinds": [ "service_alerts" ], "rt_freshness": null, "samples": 9, "scheduled_trips_in_window": 141, "worst_lag_seconds": null }, "findings": [ { "code": "scorecard_rt_trip_updates_unreachable", "consequence": { "absences": [ "Rider-trip figures come from the United States National Transit Database, which does not cover this feed's country.", "This record does not store transit need. 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