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A field survey can start with the busiest stops.", "owner": "Likely your team", "points": 24.7, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "8670 of 8793 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_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": 67.8, "status": "measured", "summary": "1% of stops state wheelchair accessibility (1% 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": 0, "INFO": 52, "WARNING": 18465 }, "validator_version": "8.0.1" }, "findings": [ { "code": "mixed_case_recommended_field", "count": 18171, "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": "equal_shape_distance_diff_coordinates_distance_below_threshold", "count": 209, "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": "same_name_and_description_for_stop", "count": 56, "effort": "Varies.", "fix": "Review the rule documentation for 'same_name_and_description_for_stop' at https://gtfs-validator.mobilitydata.org/rules.html and check the flagged rows in your feed.", "owner": "", "points": 8.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "Same name and description for stop (flagged by the MobilityData validator).", "why": "See the linked rule for what this affects." }, { "code": "unused_shape", "count": 17, "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": 6, "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 transit vehicle is scheduled to arrive." }, { "code": "stop_too_far_from_shape_using_user_distance", "count": 3, "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 path or point riders to the wrong boarding location." }, { "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": "stop_too_far_from_shape", "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 transit vehicle route through the wrong path or point riders to the wrong boarding location." }, { "code": "trip_headsign_matches_intermediate_stop", "count": 35, "effort": "Usually a bulk edit in your scheduling software.", "fix": "Set trip_headsign to the trip's last stop or its overall destination.", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 0.8, "severity": "INFO", "what": "Some trip headsigns name a stop along the way, not the final destination.", "why": "The sign should tell riders where the transit vehicle ends up, so a midpoint name can send them the wrong way." }, { "code": "big_gap_in_service", "count": 12, "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": 0.8, "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." }, { "code": "service_window_outside_feed_period", "count": 3, "effort": "Two fields in feed_info.txt, or one export setting.", "fix": "Widen feed_start_date and feed_end_date to cover all service dates, or fix the dates that fall outside.", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 0.5, "severity": "INFO", "what": "Some service dates fall outside the date window set in feed_info.txt.", "why": "feed_info.txt should span every day your service runs, so apps know when the data applies." }, { "code": "unknown_column", "count": 1, "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." }, { "code": "unknown_file", "count": 1, "effort": "A quick look at the flagged file.", "fix": "Check the flagged file name for a typo of a standard GTFS file. Remove it if it is a vendor extra.", "owner": "", "points": 0.5, "severity": "INFO", "what": "The feed includes a file that is not part of the GTFS spec.", "why": "Apps ignore files they don't know, and a stray file can hide a misspelled standard file name." } ], "name": "correctness", "score": 45.0, "status": "measured", "summary": "The MobilityData validator flagged 14 kinds of issue across 18517 instances (0 error, 18465 warning, 52 informational).", "weight": 0.35 }, "freshness": { "details": { "days_until_expiry": -78, "effective_expiry_date": "2026-06-06", "feed_end_date": "2026-06-06", "feed_start_date": "2026-02-22", "feed_version": "Feb2026IVOMS_20260710", "has_feed_info": true, "last_service_date": "2027-02-06", "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 78 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 78 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": "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 expired 78 days ago.", "key": "current", "met": false }, { "detail": "States wheelchair access on 1% of stops and 100% of trips; the mark needs 90% of each.", "key": "accessible", "met": false } ], "status": "not_yet", "summary": "Two requirements remain for this feed to earn the conformance mark. Service data expired 78 days ago. States wheelchair access on 1% of stops and 100% of trips; the mark needs 90% of each.", "version": 2 }, "feed": { "license_note": "License: https://www.ridemetro.org/about/news-media/digital-assets", "reachable": true, "sha256": "8cb5d80951f7e6c87f9bd73ad97256174fa8dece2f916570a797aa8912f1a86f", "size_bytes": 12660974, "source_provenance": "unverified", "static_url": "https://metro.resourcespace.com/pages/download.php?ref=4835&ext=zip" }, "fetch": { "final_url": "https://metro.resourcespace.com/pages/download.php?ref=4835&ext=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": [ -95.77625, 29.52885, -94.97971, 30.05434 ], "lat": 29.75248, "lon": -95.40657, "stop_count": 8793 }, "mode_profile": { "ferry_only": false, "graded": false, "has_ferry": false, "is_multimodal": true, "measured": true, "modes": [ { "key": "tram", "label": "Tram / light rail", "route_count": 3, "trip_count": 1721, "trip_share_pct": 7.9 }, { "key": "bus", "label": "Bus", "route_count": 112, "trip_count": 20157, "trip_share_pct": 92.1 } ], "primary_mode": "bus", "primary_mode_label": "Bus", "route_count": 115, "trip_count": 21878 }, "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": [ "HOU" ], "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 expired 76 days ago, so FTA would find the link out of date.", "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. Service data expired 76 days ago, so FTA would find the link out of date." }, "overall": { "grade": "F", "margin_to_lower_band": 40.9, "margin_to_next_band": 19.1, "score": 40.9 }, "recommendations": [ { "category": "accessibility", "code": "scorecard_route_color_low_contrast", "count": 1, "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": "1 route badge(s) pair a color and text color below the WCAG 4.5:1 contrast bar (700).", "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": 8665, "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": "8665 stop name(s) use abbreviations or symbols a screen reader may mispronounce, with no spoken form set (\"W Montgomery Rd @ N Shepherd Dr\", \"Lawn St @ Fortune\", \"Ringold St @ De Priest Dr\", 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": "2026-08-23", "feed_fetched_date": "2026-08-22", "kind": "freshness" }, "routability": { "boardable_stops": 8793, "findings": [ { "code": "scorecard_orphan_stops", "count": 6, "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": "6 of 8793 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": 6, "single_stop_trips": 0, "trips_total": 21878 }, "route_map": { "drawn_route_count": 109, "has_shapes": true, "path": "data/artifacts/metro-houston-2060/geometry.geojson", "route_count": 115, "routes": [ { "color": "004080", "color_name": "teal", "has_shape": true, "id": "002", "label": "002", "long": "Bellaire", "short": "002", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "004080", "color_name": "teal", "has_shape": true, "id": "003", "label": "003", "long": "Langley - 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