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A field survey can start with the busiest stops.", "owner": "Likely your team", "points": 25.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "361 of 361 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": 555, "effort": "Often one default setting in your export.", "fix": "Set wheelchair_accessible on every trip (most small-agency fleets are 100% accessible, so this is often a single default).", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 15.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "555 of 555 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." } ], "name": "completeness", "score": 45.0, "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 not published.", "weight": 0.25 }, "correctness": { "details": { "distinct_codes": 8, "instances_by_severity": { "ERROR": 0, "INFO": 7, "WARNING": 61 }, "validator_version": "8.0.1" }, "findings": [ { "code": "trip_distance_exceeds_shape_distance_below_threshold", "count": 34, "effort": "Varies.", "fix": "Review the rule documentation for 'trip_distance_exceeds_shape_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": "Trip distance exceeds shape distance below threshold (flagged by the MobilityData validator).", "why": "See the linked rule for what this affects." }, { "code": "route_long_name_contains_short_name", "count": 15, "effort": "Varies.", "fix": "Review the rule documentation for 'route_long_name_contains_short_name' at https://gtfs-validator.mobilitydata.org/rules.html and check the flagged rows in your feed.", "owner": "", "points": 6.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "Route long name contains short name (flagged by the MobilityData validator).", "why": "See the linked rule for what this affects." }, { "code": "leading_or_trailing_whitespaces", "count": 8, "effort": "Varies.", "fix": "Review the rule documentation for 'leading_or_trailing_whitespaces' at https://gtfs-validator.mobilitydata.org/rules.html and check the flagged rows in your feed.", "owner": "", "points": 6.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "Leading or trailing whitespaces (flagged by the MobilityData validator).", "why": "See the linked rule for what this affects." }, { "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": "missing_feed_info_date", "count": 1, "effort": "Two fields, likely set once in your export settings.", "fix": "Fill in feed_start_date and feed_end_date in feed_info.txt.", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 4.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "feed_info.txt does not state when this feed starts and ends.", "why": "Without stated dates, apps can't warn anyone before your data goes stale; it just disappears one day." }, { "code": "missing_recommended_field", "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": "service_extends_far_in_the_future", "count": 4, "effort": "Varies.", "fix": "Review the rule documentation for 'service_extends_far_in_the_future' at https://gtfs-validator.mobilitydata.org/rules.html and check the flagged rows in your feed.", "owner": "", "points": 0.5, "severity": "INFO", "what": "Service extends far in the future (flagged by the MobilityData validator).", "why": "See the linked rule for what this affects." }, { "code": "unknown_file", "count": 3, "effort": "Varies.", "fix": "Review the rule documentation for 'unknown_file' at https://gtfs-validator.mobilitydata.org/rules.html and check the flagged rows in your feed.", "owner": "", "points": 0.5, "severity": "INFO", "what": "Unknown file (flagged by the MobilityData validator).", "why": "See the linked rule for what this affects." } ], "name": "correctness", "score": 69.0, "status": "measured", "summary": "The MobilityData validator flagged 8 kinds of issue across 68 instances (0 error, 61 warning, 7 informational).", "weight": 0.35 }, "freshness": { "details": { "days_until_expiry": 26838, "feed_end_date": null, "feed_start_date": "2026-01-26", "feed_version": "PASAT 8 Route Update", "has_feed_info": true, "last_service_date": "2099-12-31", "seasonal_boundary": false, "service_type": "fixed" }, "findings": [ { "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", "why": "Apps and this scorecard can't warn anyone before the feed goes stale without stated validity dates." } ], "name": "freshness", "score": 85.0, "status": "measured", "summary": "Service data covers the next 26838 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 agency's own URL." ], "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 26839 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": "This feed is close to the conformance mark. 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": "3e23598ce7b45df080c6945e8bd6953292f18715237e502ca65c7111910f81c0", "size_bytes": 241003, "static_url": "https://thebuslive.com/gtfs" }, "fetch": { "final_url": "https://thebuslive.com/gtfs", "max_attempts": 4, "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": "2026-07-08T00:00:00+00:00", "geo": { "bbox": [ -120.89472, 37.0487, -120.248, 37.52178 ], "lat": 37.31906, "lon": -120.49036, "stop_count": 361 }, "ntd_id_alignment": { "detail": "Setting your GTFS agency_id to your five-digit NTD ID is an optional way to line a feed up with its National Transit Database record. FTA links the two on your P-50 form, so it is not a required feed change. We don't have your NTD ID on file, so this is not checked yet.", "feed_agency_ids": [ "42" ], "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 26839 days.", "key": "current", "status": "ready" } ], "status": "ready", "summary": "Published at a public URL, valid, and current: the three things the NTD GTFS requirement asks of a feed all hold here. Only your own D-10 certification makes that official; this is a heads-up, not a determination." }, "overall": { "grade": "D", "margin_to_lower_band": 5.5, "margin_to_next_band": 4.5, "score": 65.5 }, "recommendations": [ { "code": "scorecard_route_color_low_contrast", "count": 11, "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": "11 route badge(s) pair a color and text color below the WCAG 4.5:1 contrast bar (UC, LB, M1, M2, M3, 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." }, { "code": "scorecard_stop_name_needs_tts", "count": 312, "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": "312 stop name(s) use abbreviations or symbols a screen reader may mispronounce, with no spoken form set (\"Park & Ride @ Bellevue Ave\", \"K St @ 23rd (northbound)\", \"M & A Market (westbound)\", 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": "2026-07-09", "feed_fetched_date": "2026-07-08", "kind": "freshness" }, "routability": { "boardable_stops": 361, "findings": [], "orphan_stops": 0, "single_stop_trips": 0, "trips_total": 555 }, "route_map": { "drawn_route_count": 15, "has_shapes": true, "path": "data/artifacts/merced-county-transit-the-bus-3117/geometry.geojson", "route_count": 15, "routes": [ { "color": "BA6606", "color_name": "orange", "has_shape": true, "id": "1225", "label": "UC", "long": "UC-UC Merced", "short": "UC", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "0820FF", "color_name": "blue", "has_shape": true, "id": "18", "label": "L", "long": "L - Livingston Commuter", "short": "L", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "12A13D", "color_name": "green", "has_shape": true, "id": "19", "label": "LB", "long": "LB - Los Banos Commuter", "short": "LB", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "C97E0E", "color_name": "orange", "has_shape": true, "id": "20", "label": "M1", "long": "M1 - Merced West", "short": "M1", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "A67726", "color_name": "brown", "has_shape": true, "id": "21", "label": "M2", "long": "M2 - R Street Route", "short": "M2", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "CFB359", "color_name": "yellow", "has_shape": true, "id": "22", "label": "M3", "long": "M3 - M Street Route", "short": "M3", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "827033", "color_name": "brown", "has_shape": true, "id": "23", "label": "M4", "long": "M4 - G Street Route", "short": "M4", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "D17F36", "color_name": "orange", "has_shape": true, "id": "24", "label": "M5", "long": "M5 - Merced South-East", "short": "M5", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "FFA742", "color_name": "yellow", "has_shape": true, "id": "25", "label": "M6", "long": "M6 - Olive Loops", "short": "M6", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "827033", "color_name": "brown", "has_shape": true, "id": "5889", "label": "M7", "long": "M7 - South G Street Route", "short": "M7", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "B50920", "color_name": "red", "has_shape": true, "id": "953", "label": "A2", "long": "A2 - Winton Way", "short": "A2", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "FF0818", "color_name": "red", "has_shape": true, "id": "957", "label": "A1", "long": "A1 - Atwater Loop", "short": "A1", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "6AB8CC", "color_name": "gray", "has_shape": true, "id": "958", "label": "P", "long": "P - Planada Commuter", "short": "P", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "A7B1DB", "color_name": "white", "has_shape": true, "id": "972", "label": "T", "long": "T - Turlock Commuter", "short": "T", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "80ADAA", "color_name": "gray", "has_shape": true, "id": "973", "label": "W1", "long": "W1 - Winton Commuter", "short": "W1", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" } ], "stop_count": 361, "stop_points_capped": false }, "rubric_version": "1.1", "schema_version": "1.7", "shapes_readiness": { "detail": "All 555 trips have a shape in shapes.txt.", "status": "ready", "total_trips": 555, "trips_with_shape": 555 }, "snapshot_date": "2026-07-09", "top_fixes": [ { "code": "scorecard_wheelchair_boarding_unknown", "count": 361, "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": "361 of 361 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": 555, "effort": "Often one default setting in your export.", "fix": "Set wheelchair_accessible on every trip (most small-agency fleets are 100% accessible, so this is often a single default).", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 15.0, "rank": 2, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "555 of 555 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, "rank": 3, "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." } ], "validator_version": "8.0.1" }