{ "agency": { "id": "ku-on-wheels-lawrence-transit-system", "name": "KU on Wheels & Lawrence Transit System", "subdivision_code": "US-KS", "subdivision_name": "Kansas" }, "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": 0.0, "stop_names": 15.0, "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": 724, "headsign_loop_exempt_trips": 0, "headsign_pct": 0.0, "headsign_scored_pct": 0.0, "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": 346, "translations": { "feed_lang": "en", "has_translations": false, "languages": [], "translated_tables": [], "translation_count": 0 }, "trips": 724, "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": 346, "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": "346 of 346 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": 724, "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": "724 of 724 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_missing_headsigns", "count": 724, "effort": "Usually one value per route pattern in your scheduling source.", "fix": "Add the destination, direction, or 'via' label riders actually see to trip_headsign. Do not copy the route name. If the label changes during the trip, use stop_headsign.", "owner": "", "points": 15.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "724 of 724 trips lack rider-facing destination or direction text.", "why": "When a route has multiple directions or patterns, the route name alone may not tell riders which service is coming." }, { "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 published.", "weight": 0.25 }, "correctness": { "details": { "distinct_codes": 11, "instances_by_severity": { "ERROR": 0, "INFO": 2, "WARNING": 82 }, "validator_version": "8.0.1" }, "findings": [ { "code": "missing_recommended_field", "count": 26, "effort": "A field at a time; not urgent.", "fix": "Review the flagged fields and fill in the ones your riders would use.", "owner": "", "points": 6.0, "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": "expired_calendar", "count": 23, "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": "stops_match_shape_out_of_order", "count": 20, "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": 6.0, "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 bus doubling back or skipping ahead, which confuses riders reading the map." }, { "code": "duplicate_route_name", "count": 3, "effort": "One field per route.", "fix": "Give each route a distinct short or long name.", "owner": "", "points": 4.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "Two or more routes share the same name.", "why": "Riders can't tell the routes apart in apps." }, { "code": "leading_or_trailing_whitespaces", "count": 3, "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": 2, "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", "count": 2, "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": "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": "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": "big_gap_in_service", "count": 2, "effort": "A review of your calendar dates.", "fix": "Check whether the gap is real, like a seasonal break; if not, add the missing dates to the calendar.", "owner": "", "points": 0.5, "severity": "INFO", "what": "The feed has a stretch of two weeks or more with no service running.", "why": "A long gap can mean dates were left out of the calendar. Apps then show no trips on those days." } ], "name": "correctness", "score": 53.5, "status": "measured", "summary": "The MobilityData validator flagged 11 kinds of issue across 84 instances (0 error, 82 warning, 2 informational).", "weight": 0.35 }, "freshness": { "details": { "days_until_expiry": -2008, "effective_expiry_date": "2021-01-31", "feed_end_date": "2021-01-31", "feed_start_date": "2020-08-01", "feed_version": "12.0", "has_feed_info": true, "last_service_date": "2021-01-31", "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 2008 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 2008 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": "mirror", "level": "provisional", "measured_categories": 3, "notes": [ "Realtime quality was not measured this run. It does not count against the grade.", "The agency's own feed URL was unreachable, so the Mobility Database's hosted mirror copy was scored instead." ], "rt_windows": 0, "total_categories": 4 }, "conformance": { "awarded": false, "criteria": [ { "detail": "Passes validation with no errors.", "key": "valid", "met": true }, { "detail": "Service data expired 2008 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": "This feed is close to the conformance mark. Service data expired 2008 days ago. States wheelchair access on 0% of stops and 0% of trips; the mark needs 90% of each." }, "feed": { "license_note": "No stated data license in the Mobility Database; verify before publishing.", "reachable": true, "sha256": "cdc3070d5a17b3ffd5831ff53cea974caa705d2496b6e621558ff14ac0dee798", "size_bytes": 114258, "static_url": "https://assets.lawrenceks.org/assets/gis/google-transit/google_transit.zip" }, "fetch": { "final_url": "https://storage.googleapis.com/storage/v1/b/mdb-latest/o/us-kansas-ku-on-wheels-lawrence-transit-system-gtfs-188.zip?alt=media", "max_attempts": 1, "origin_error": "HTTPError", "reader_archive_profile": "raw-v1", "source": "mirror", "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": "2026-08-01T00:00:00+00:00", "geo": { "bbox": [ -95.33271, 38.92462, -95.18172, 39.00091 ], "lat": 38.95535, "lon": -95.25251, "stop_count": 346 }, "mode_profile": { "ferry_only": false, "graded": false, "has_ferry": false, "is_multimodal": false, "measured": true, "modes": [ { "key": "bus", "label": "Bus", "route_count": 23, "trip_count": 724, "trip_share_pct": 100.0 } ], "primary_mode": "bus", "primary_mode_label": "Bus", "route_count": 23, "trip_count": 724 }, "ntd_id_alignment": { "detail": "Your agency.txt sets no nonblank agency_id. Every RY2026 NTD GTFS submission needs a stable value unique among the reporters represented in the feed, crosswalked on the P-50 form.", "feed_agency_ids": [], "fix": "Add agency_id to agency.txt and use the same value wherever routes.txt identifies that agency. Keep it stable, and enter its crosswalk to the reporter's NTD ID on P-50. It does not need to equal the five-digit NTD ID.", "status": "missing" }, "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 2008 days ago, so FTA would find the link out of date.", "key": "current", "status": "not_ready" }, { "detail": "agency.txt has no nonblank agency_id. Every RY2026 NTD GTFS submission needs a stable value unique among the reporters represented in the feed, crosswalked to each reporter's NTD ID on the P-50 form.", "key": "agency_id", "status": "not_ready" } ], "status": "not_ready", "summary": "Resolve this before you certify on the D-10. Service data expired 2008 days ago, so FTA would find the link out of date. agency.txt has no nonblank agency_id. Every RY2026 NTD GTFS submission needs a stable value unique among the reporters represented in the feed, crosswalked to each reporter's NTD ID on the P-50 form." }, "overall": { "grade": "F", "margin_to_lower_band": 35.1, "margin_to_next_band": 24.9, "score": 35.1 }, "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 (5, 3).", "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": 299, "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": "299 stop name(s) use abbreviations or symbols a screen reader may mispronounce, with no spoken form set (\"332 - 25th & Franklin\", \"45 - 23rd & Ousdahl (westbound)\", \"158 - N Iowa & Packer (northbound)\", 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." } ], "routability": { "boardable_stops": 346, "findings": [], "orphan_stops": 0, "single_stop_trips": 0, "trips_total": 724 }, "route_map": { "drawn_route_count": 23, "has_shapes": true, "path": "data/artifacts/ku-on-wheels-lawrence-transit-system/geometry.geojson", "route_count": 23, "routes": [ { "color": "00CCFF", "color_name": "teal", "has_shape": true, "id": "245", "label": "11", "long": "South Iowa / KU / Downtown", "short": "11", "text_color": "000000", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "00CCFF", "color_name": "teal", "has_shape": true, "id": "246", "label": "11", "long": "South Iowa / KU / Downtown", "short": "11", "text_color": "000000", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "2EFF89", "color_name": "teal", "has_shape": true, "id": "247", "label": "15", "long": "Downtown / Peaslee / East Hills", "short": "15", "text_color": "000000", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "CCCCFF", "color_name": "white", "has_shape": true, "id": "251", "label": "27", "long": "HINU / 23rd & Louisiana / KU", "short": "27", "text_color": "000000", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "FF6600", "color_name": "orange", "has_shape": true, "id": "252", "label": "3", "long": "Lakeview Road / Downtown", "short": "3", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "0066FF", "color_name": "blue", "has_shape": true, "id": "253", "label": "4", "long": "North Lawrence / 9th & Iowa", "short": "4", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "009966", "color_name": "green", "has_shape": true, "id": "254", "label": "5", "long": "South Iowa / 23rd / K-10", "short": "5", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "999966", "color_name": "gray", "has_shape": true, "id": "256", "label": "9", "long": "South Iowa / 6th & Wakarusa", "short": "9", "text_color": "000000", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "990000", "color_name": "red", "has_shape": true, "id": "257", "label": "1", "long": "East Lawrence / Downtown", "short": "1", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "99FF33", "color_name": "yellow", "has_shape": true, "id": "258", "label": "7", "long": "South Iowa / Downtown", "short": "7", "text_color": "000000", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "333366", "color_name": "green", "has_shape": true, "id": "259", "label": "6", "long": "6th & Wakarusa / Downtown - 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It is not a worldwide standard or a compliance determination.", "rubric_version": "1.3" }, "shapes_readiness": { "detail": "All 724 trips have a shape in shapes.txt.", "status": "ready", "total_trips": 724, "trips_with_shape": 724 }, "snapshot_date": "2026-08-01", "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 2008 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": 346, "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": "346 of 346 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": 724, "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": "724 of 724 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" }