{ "agency": { "id": "mountain-line-1148", "name": "Mountain Line", "subdivision_code": "US-AZ", "subdivision_name": "Arizona" }, "categories": { "completeness": { "details": { "accessibility": { "measures": "presence_not_usability", "score": 100.0, "stops_marked_accessible_pct": 64.6, "stops_marked_not_accessible_pct": 35.4, "stops_stated_pct": 100.0, "trips_stated_pct": 100.0 }, "accessibility_measures": "presence_not_usability", "cemv": { "declared": false, "supported": false }, "components": { "contact": 7.5, "fares": 0.0, "headsigns": 1.1, "stop_names": 15.0, "wheelchair_stops": 25.0, "wheelchair_trips": 15.0 }, "fare_free": false, "fares": { "applied": false, "has_leg_rules": false, "has_products": false, "has_transfer_rules": false, "model": "none", "product_count": 0 }, "flex": { "booking_reachable": false, "booking_rule_count": 0, "has_booking_rules": false, "has_flex": false }, "has_fares": false, "headsign_applicable_trips": 510, "headsign_loop_exempt_trips": 41, "headsign_pct": 0.0, "headsign_scored_pct": 7.4, "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": 181, "translations": { "feed_lang": null, "has_translations": false, "languages": [], "translated_tables": [], "translation_count": 0 }, "trips": 551, "wheelchair_accessible_pct": 100.0, "wheelchair_boarding_pct": 100.0, "wheelchair_marked_accessible_pct": 64.6, "wheelchair_marked_not_accessible_pct": 35.4 }, "findings": [ { "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." }, { "code": "scorecard_missing_headsigns", "count": 510, "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": 13.9, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "510 of 551 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": 63.6, "status": "measured", "summary": "100% of stops state wheelchair accessibility (65% marked accessible, 35% 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": 19, "instances_by_severity": { "ERROR": 117, "INFO": 551, "WARNING": 117 }, "validator_version": "8.0.1" }, "findings": [ { "code": "trip_distance_exceeds_shape_distance", "count": 34, "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": 18.0, "severity": "ERROR", "what": "Trip distance exceeds shape distance (flagged by the MobilityData validator).", "why": "See the linked rule for what this affects." }, { "code": "duplicate_key", "count": 30, "effort": "Varies.", "fix": "Review the rule documentation for 'duplicate_key' at https://gtfs-validator.mobilitydata.org/rules.html and check the flagged rows in your feed.", "owner": "", "points": 18.0, "severity": "ERROR", "what": "Duplicate key (flagged by the MobilityData validator).", "why": "See the linked rule for what this affects." }, { "code": "decreasing_or_equal_stop_time_distance", "count": 22, "effort": "Usually an export-tool fix, not hand editing.", "fix": "Re-generate shape distances in your export; flag to your vendor if it persists.", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 18.0, "severity": "ERROR", "what": "Some trips have stop times whose distances along the route go backwards.", "why": "Apps can show buses jumping backwards or mis-order stops." }, { "code": "block_trips_with_overlapping_stop_times", "count": 17, "effort": "Varies.", "fix": "Review the rule documentation for 'block_trips_with_overlapping_stop_times' at https://gtfs-validator.mobilitydata.org/rules.html and check the flagged rows in your feed.", "owner": "", "points": 18.0, "severity": "ERROR", "what": "Block trips with overlapping stop times (flagged by the MobilityData validator).", "why": "See the linked rule for what this affects." }, { "code": "stop_time_with_arrival_before_previous_departure_time", "count": 10, "effort": "Varies.", "fix": "Review the rule documentation for 'stop_time_with_arrival_before_previous_departure_time' at https://gtfs-validator.mobilitydata.org/rules.html and check the flagged rows in your feed.", "owner": "", "points": 18.0, "severity": "ERROR", "what": "Stop time with arrival before previous departure time (flagged by the MobilityData validator).", "why": "See the linked rule for what this affects." }, { "code": "equal_shape_distance_diff_coordinates", "count": 4, "effort": "Varies.", "fix": "Review the rule documentation for 'equal_shape_distance_diff_coordinates' at https://gtfs-validator.mobilitydata.org/rules.html and check the flagged rows in your feed.", "owner": "", "points": 12.0, "severity": "ERROR", "what": "Equal shape distance diff coordinates (flagged by the MobilityData validator).", "why": "See the linked rule for what this affects." }, { "code": "unused_shape", "count": 43, "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_too_far_from_shape_using_user_distance", "count": 26, "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": 6.0, "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": "expired_calendar", "count": 19, "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_without_stop_time", "count": 11, "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 bus is scheduled to arrive." }, { "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": "trip_distance_exceeds_shape_distance_below_threshold", "count": 3, "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": 4.0, "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": "fast_travel_between_far_stops", "count": 1, "effort": "Varies.", "fix": "Review the rule documentation for 'fast_travel_between_far_stops' at https://gtfs-validator.mobilitydata.org/rules.html and check the flagged rows in your feed.", "owner": "", "points": 4.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "Fast travel between far stops (flagged by the MobilityData validator).", "why": "See the linked rule for what this affects." }, { "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": "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 bus route through the wrong streets or point riders to the wrong corner." }, { "code": "stops_match_shape_out_of_order", "count": 1, "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": 4.0, "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": "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": "trip_with_shape_dist_traveled_but_no_shape_distances", "count": 550, "effort": "Varies.", "fix": "Review the rule documentation for 'trip_with_shape_dist_traveled_but_no_shape_distances' at https://gtfs-validator.mobilitydata.org/rules.html and check the flagged rows in your feed.", "owner": "", "points": 1.0, "severity": "INFO", "what": "Trip with shape dist traveled but no shape distances (flagged by the MobilityData validator).", "why": "See the linked rule for what this affects." }, { "code": "unsorted_stop_times", "count": 1, "effort": "Varies.", "fix": "Review the rule documentation for 'unsorted_stop_times' at https://gtfs-validator.mobilitydata.org/rules.html and check the flagged rows in your feed.", "owner": "", "points": 0.5, "severity": "INFO", "what": "Unsorted stop times (flagged by the MobilityData validator).", "why": "See the linked rule for what this affects." } ], "name": "correctness", "score": 0.0, "status": "measured", "summary": "The MobilityData validator flagged 19 kinds of issue across 785 instances (117 error, 117 warning, 551 informational).", "weight": 0.35 }, "freshness": { "details": { "days_until_expiry": -216, "effective_expiry_date": "2025-12-28", "feed_end_date": null, "feed_start_date": null, "feed_version": null, "has_feed_info": false, "last_service_date": "2025-12-28", "seasonal_boundary": true, "service_horizon_review_years": 10, "service_horizon_status": "within_review_threshold", "service_type": "fixed" }, "findings": [ { "code": "scorecard_planned_service_boundary", "count": 1, "effort": "One export when the next period's schedule is set.", "fix": "Confirm your next service period is published: export its calendar and set feed_info feed_end_date past it.", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 50.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "The published calendar ended 216 day(s) ago at a boundary between the feed's own scheduled service periods.", "why": "The calendar encodes distinct service periods (like academic terms), so this looks like a planned transition rather than a lapse \u2014 but trip planners still show nothing until the next period is published." }, { "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 (the file itself is absent)", "why": "Apps and this scorecard can't warn anyone before the feed goes stale without stated validity dates." } ], "name": "freshness", "score": 35.0, "status": "measured", "summary": "This feed's calendar reached a scheduled service boundary 216 day(s) ago. Confirm your next service period is published so riders can keep planning trips.", "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": "6 validator errors to resolve.", "key": "valid", "met": false }, { "detail": "Service data expired 216 days ago.", "key": "current", "met": false }, { "detail": "States wheelchair access on 100% of stops and 100% of trips.", "key": "accessible", "met": true } ], "status": "not_yet", "summary": "This feed is close to the conformance mark. 6 validator errors to resolve. Service data expired 216 days ago." }, "feed": { "license_note": "No stated data license in the Mobility Database; verify before publishing.", "reachable": true, "sha256": "d4c9f0e83d1c7c0420ebd208047a4f64daad53ab2f7e3394131404edf2ce0936", "size_bytes": 218652, "static_url": "https://transitfeeds.com/p/mountain-line/243/latest/download" }, "fetch": { "final_url": "https://storage.googleapis.com/storage/v1/b/mdb-latest/o/us-arizona-mountain-line-gtfs-1148.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": [ -111.7193, 35.14263, -111.57335, 35.3302 ], "lat": 35.19949, "lon": -111.6473, "stop_count": 181 }, "mode_profile": { "ferry_only": false, "graded": false, "has_ferry": false, "is_multimodal": false, "measured": true, "modes": [ { "key": "bus", "label": "Bus", "route_count": 10, "trip_count": 551, "trip_share_pct": 100.0 } ], "primary_mode": "bus", "primary_mode_label": "Bus", "route_count": 10, "trip_count": 551 }, "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": [ "4" ], "status": "unknown" }, "ntd_readiness": { "pillars": [ { "detail": "Published at a public URL.", "key": "published", "status": "ready" }, { "detail": "6 validator errors to resolve.", "key": "valid", "status": "at_risk" }, { "detail": "Service data expired 216 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. 6 validator errors to resolve. Service data expired 216 days ago, so FTA would find the link out of date." }, "overall": { "grade": "F", "margin_to_lower_band": 28.6, "margin_to_next_band": 31.4, "score": 28.6 }, "recommendations": [ { "category": "accessibility", "code": "scorecard_route_color_low_contrast", "count": 3, "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": "3 route badge(s) pair a color and text color below the WCAG 4.5:1 contrast bar (R005, R008, R066).", "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": 124, "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": "124 stop name(s) use abbreviations or symbols a screen reader may mispronounce, with no spoken form set (\"Beaver / Phoenix\", \"Beaver / Franklin SB\", \"Beulah / McConnell\", 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": 181, "findings": [ { "code": "scorecard_orphan_stops", "count": 11, "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": "11 of 181 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": 11, "single_stop_trips": 0, "trips_total": 551 }, "route_map": { "drawn_route_count": 10, "has_shapes": true, "path": "data/artifacts/mountain-line-1148/geometry.geojson", "route_count": 10, "routes": [ { "color": "860000", "color_name": "red", "has_shape": true, "id": "10", "label": "R010", "long": "Route 10", "short": "R010", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "B85C19", "color_name": "brown", "has_shape": true, "id": "14", "label": "R014", "long": "Route 14", "short": "R014", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "0847DE", "color_name": "blue", "has_shape": true, "id": "2", "label": "R002", "long": "Route 2", "short": "R002", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "1A822F", "color_name": "green", "has_shape": true, "id": "3", "label": "R003", "long": "Route 3", "short": "R003", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "F7C224", "color_name": "yellow", "has_shape": true, "id": "4", "label": "R004", "long": "Route 4", "short": "R004", "text_color": "000000", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "FA6317", "color_name": "orange", "has_shape": true, "id": "5", "label": "R005", "long": "Route 5", "short": "R005", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "F20200", "color_name": "red", "has_shape": true, "id": "66", "label": "R066", "long": "Route 66", "short": "R066", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "582C83", "color_name": "purple", "has_shape": true, "id": "7", "label": "R007", "long": "Route 7", "short": "R007", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "1DA5C6", "color_name": "teal", "has_shape": true, "id": "8", "label": "R008", "long": "Route 8", "short": "R008", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "585858", "color_name": "brown", "has_shape": true, "id": "97", "label": "MTEX", "long": "Mountain Express", "short": "MTEX", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" } ], "stop_count": 181, "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": "All 551 trips have a shape in shapes.txt.", "status": "ready", "total_trips": 551, "trips_with_shape": 551 }, "snapshot_date": "2026-08-01", "top_fixes": [ { "code": "trip_distance_exceeds_shape_distance", "count": 34, "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": 18.0, "rank": 1, "severity": "ERROR", "what": "Trip distance exceeds shape distance (flagged by the MobilityData validator).", "why": "See the linked rule for what this affects." }, { "code": "duplicate_key", "count": 30, "effort": "Varies.", "fix": "Review the rule documentation for 'duplicate_key' at https://gtfs-validator.mobilitydata.org/rules.html and check the flagged rows in your feed.", "owner": "", "points": 18.0, "rank": 2, "severity": "ERROR", "what": "Duplicate key (flagged by the MobilityData validator).", "why": "See the linked rule for what this affects." }, { "code": "decreasing_or_equal_stop_time_distance", "count": 22, "effort": "Usually an export-tool fix, not hand editing.", "fix": "Re-generate shape distances in your export; flag to your vendor if it persists.", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 18.0, "rank": 3, "severity": "ERROR", "what": "Some trips have stop times whose distances along the route go backwards.", "why": "Apps can show buses jumping backwards or mis-order stops." } ], "validator_version": "8.0.1" }