{ "agency": { "id": "metra", "name": "Metra", "subdivision_code": "US-IL", "subdivision_name": "Illinois" }, "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": 0.0, "fares": 15.0, "headsigns": 0.0, "stop_names": 0.0, "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": 4928, "headsign_loop_exempt_trips": 0, "headsign_pct": 0.0, "headsign_scored_pct": 0.0, "mixed_case_stop_name_pct": 0.0, "pathways": { "has_entrances": false, "has_levels": false, "has_pathways": false, "has_stations": false, "has_step_free": false, "pathway_count": 0 }, "stops": 240, "translations": { "feed_lang": null, "has_translations": false, "languages": [], "translated_tables": [], "translation_count": 0 }, "trips": 4928, "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": 240, "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": "240 of 240 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": 4928, "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": "4928 of 4928 trips don't say whether the vehicle is wheelchair accessible.", "why": "Even with accessible stops, riders need to know the transit vehicle itself can take them." }, { "code": "scorecard_stop_names_all_caps", "count": 240, "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": 15.0, "severity": "INFO", "what": "About 240 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_missing_headsigns", "count": 4928, "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": "4928 of 4928 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." }, { "code": "scorecard_bad_agency_url", "count": 1, "effort": "One field.", "fix": "Set agency_url to your agency's website, starting with https://.", "owner": "", "points": 7.5, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "agency.txt has no working website URL.", "why": "Trip planners link riders to this URL for schedules and fares." } ], "name": "completeness", "score": 15.0, "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": 8, "instances_by_severity": { "ERROR": 0, "INFO": 4, "WARNING": 38 }, "validator_version": "8.0.1" }, "findings": [ { "code": "expired_calendar", "count": 21, "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": "missing_recommended_field", "count": 10, "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": "stop_without_stop_time", "count": 3, "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": 4.0, "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 transit vehicle is scheduled to arrive." }, { "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": "mixed_case_recommended_field", "count": 1, "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": "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": "unused_shape", "count": 1, "effort": "One setting.", "fix": "Turn on 'remove unused shapes' (or the like) in your export tool.", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 4.0, "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": "unknown_column", "count": 4, "effort": "A quick look at the flagged files.", "fix": "Check the flagged column names for misspellings of standard GTFS fields; remove them if they are vendor extras.", "owner": "", "points": 0.5, "severity": "INFO", "what": "Some files contain columns that are not part of the GTFS spec.", "why": "Harmless to riders, but apps ignore these columns and they can hide typos in real column names." } ], "name": "correctness", "score": 67.5, "status": "measured", "summary": "The MobilityData validator flagged 8 kinds of issue across 42 instances (0 error, 38 warning, 4 informational).", "weight": 0.35 }, "freshness": { "details": { "days_until_expiry": null, "effective_expiry_date": null, "feed_end_date": null, "feed_start_date": null, "feed_version": null, "has_feed_info": false, "last_service_date": null, "seasonal_boundary": false, "service_horizon_review_years": 10, "service_horizon_status": "unknown", "service_type": "fixed" }, "findings": [ { "code": "scorecard_no_expiry_date", "count": 1, "effort": "Likely a one-time export setting.", "fix": "Add feed_start_date and feed_end_date to feed_info.txt and include calendar end dates in your export.", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 100.0, "severity": "ERROR", "what": "Neither feed_info.txt nor the calendars state when service ends.", "why": "Nobody can tell when this feed will go stale." } ], "name": "freshness", "score": 0.0, "status": "measured", "summary": "No service end date could be found in this feed, so there is no way to know when 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": "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": "No service end date could be read.", "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. No service end date could be read. States wheelchair access on 0% of stops and 0% of trips; the mark needs 90% of each." }, "feed": { "license_note": "License: https://metrarail.com/developers", "reachable": true, "sha256": "9ea002c7b85bf10c86393dd536135328aaa7438bdb400115a468ed580e06d417", "size_bytes": 499673, "static_url": "https://transitfeeds.com/p/metra/169/latest/download" }, "fetch": { "final_url": "https://storage.googleapis.com/storage/v1/b/mdb-latest/o/us-illinois-metra-gtfs-1187.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", "mode_profile": { "ferry_only": false, "graded": false, "has_ferry": false, "is_multimodal": false, "measured": true, "modes": [ { "key": "other", "label": "Other / unclassified", "route_count": 11, "trip_count": 4928, "trip_share_pct": 100.0 } ], "primary_mode": "other", "primary_mode_label": "Other / unclassified", "route_count": 11, "trip_count": 4928 }, "ntd_id_alignment": { "detail": "Your feed's agency_id is METRA; your National Transit Database ID is 50118. A feed that serves several agencies (a shared regional feed) can legitimately carry more than one agency_id. The values do not need to equal the five-digit NTD ID, so this difference is allowed and carries no score.", "feed_agency_ids": [ "METRA" ], "fix": "Confirm that P-50 crosswalks agency_id METRA to NTD ID 50118, and keep the feed value stable. Do not change it solely to make the two values equal.", "ntd_id": "50118", "status": "mismatch" }, "ntd_readiness": { "pillars": [ { "detail": "Published at a public URL.", "key": "published", "status": "ready" }, { "detail": "Passes validation with no errors.", "key": "valid", "status": "ready" }, { "detail": "No service end date could be read, so currency is unknown.", "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. No service end date could be read, so currency is unknown." }, "overall": { "grade": "F", "margin_to_lower_band": 34.2, "margin_to_next_band": 25.8, "score": 34.2 }, "recommendations": [], "routability": { "boardable_stops": 240, "findings": [ { "code": "scorecard_orphan_stops", "count": 240, "effort": "A cleanup pass in your scheduling software.", "fix": "Remove stops no route serves, or add the trips that should call at them.", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 0.0, "severity": "INFO", "what": "240 of 240 boardable stops are never served by any trip.", "why": "Riders see these stops in apps and on the map but can never catch anything there, which erodes trust in the data." } ], "orphan_stops": 240, "single_stop_trips": 0, "trips_total": 0 }, "route_map": { "drawn_route_count": 0, "has_shapes": false, "route_count": 11, "routes": [ { "color": "4A4A4A", "color_name": "green", "has_shape": false, "id": "BNSF", "label": "BNSF", "long": "", "short": "", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Transit line" }, { "color": "4A4A4A", "color_name": "green", "has_shape": false, "id": "HC", "label": "HC", "long": "", "short": "", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Transit line" }, { "color": "4A4A4A", "color_name": "green", "has_shape": false, "id": "MD-N", "label": "MD-N", "long": "", "short": "", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Transit line" }, { "color": "4A4A4A", "color_name": "green", "has_shape": false, "id": "MD-W", "label": "MD-W", "long": "", "short": "", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Transit line" }, { "color": "4A4A4A", "color_name": "green", "has_shape": false, "id": "ME", "label": "ME", "long": "", "short": "", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Transit line" }, { "color": "4A4A4A", "color_name": "green", "has_shape": false, "id": "NCS", "label": "NCS", "long": "", "short": "", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Transit line" }, { "color": "4A4A4A", "color_name": "green", "has_shape": false, "id": "RI", "label": "RI", "long": "", "short": "", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Transit line" }, { "color": "4A4A4A", "color_name": "green", "has_shape": false, "id": "SWS", "label": "SWS", "long": "", "short": "", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Transit line" }, { "color": "4A4A4A", "color_name": "green", "has_shape": false, "id": "UP-N", "label": "UP-N", "long": "", "short": "", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Transit line" }, { "color": "4A4A4A", "color_name": "green", "has_shape": false, "id": "UP-NW", "label": "UP-NW", "long": "", "short": "", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Transit line" }, { "color": "4A4A4A", "color_name": "green", "has_shape": false, "id": "UP-W", "label": "UP-W", "long": "", "short": "", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Transit line" } ], "stop_count": 0, "stop_points_capped": false }, "rubric_version": "1.3", "schema_version": "1.17", "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": "No trips in this feed have a shape_id linked to a row in shapes.txt.", "fix": "Add shapes.txt with a shape_id for each trip's path, and set trips.shape_id to match. Reduced, Rural, and Tribal NTD reporters need this in their published GTFS starting Report Year 2026; Full Reporters needed it in Report Year 2025.", "status": "not_ready", "total_trips": 4928, "trips_with_shape": 0 }, "snapshot_date": "2026-08-01", "top_fixes": [ { "code": "scorecard_no_expiry_date", "count": 1, "effort": "Likely a one-time export setting.", "fix": "Add feed_start_date and feed_end_date to feed_info.txt and include calendar end dates in your export.", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 100.0, "rank": 1, "severity": "ERROR", "what": "Neither feed_info.txt nor the calendars state when service ends.", "why": "Nobody can tell when this feed will go stale." }, { "code": "scorecard_wheelchair_boarding_unknown", "count": 240, "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": "240 of 240 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": 4928, "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": "4928 of 4928 trips don't say whether the vehicle is wheelchair accessible.", "why": "Even with accessible stops, riders need to know the transit vehicle itself can take them." } ], "validator_version": "8.0.1" }