{ "agency": { "id": "mountain-line-transit", "name": "Mountain Line Transit", "subdivision_code": "US-AZ", "subdivision_name": "Arizona" }, "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": 15.0, "fares": 0.0, "headsigns": 11.1, "stop_names": 15.0, "wheelchair_stops": 0.0, "wheelchair_trips": 0.0 }, "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": 2753, "headsign_loop_exempt_trips": 0, "headsign_pct": 74.2, "headsign_scored_pct": 74.2, "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": "en-US", "has_translations": false, "languages": [], "translated_tables": [], "translation_count": 0 }, "trips": 2753, "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": 181, "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": "181 of 181 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": 2753, "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": "2753 of 2753 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." }, { "code": "scorecard_missing_headsigns", "count": 710, "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": 3.9, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "710 of 2753 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." } ], "name": "completeness", "score": 41.1, "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": 9, "instances_by_severity": { "ERROR": 0, "INFO": 7, "WARNING": 427 }, "validator_version": "8.0.1" }, "findings": [ { "code": "trip_distance_exceeds_shape_distance_below_threshold", "count": 398, "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": 8.0, "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": "equal_shape_distance_same_coordinates", "count": 12, "effort": "Usually one export setting.", "fix": "Turn on shape cleanup in your export tool, or drop the repeated points from shapes.txt.", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 6.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "Some route lines list the same point twice in a row.", "why": "Repeated points don't hurt riders, but they can skew distance math and hint at a shaky export." }, { "code": "stop_too_far_from_shape_using_user_distance", "count": 7, "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": "leading_or_trailing_whitespaces", "count": 5, "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": "expired_calendar", "count": 3, "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": 4.0, "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_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": "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": 63.0, "status": "measured", "summary": "The MobilityData validator flagged 9 kinds of issue across 434 instances (0 error, 427 warning, 7 informational).", "weight": 0.35 }, "freshness": { "details": { "days_until_expiry": 26815, "effective_expiry_date": "2099-12-31", "feed_end_date": null, "feed_start_date": "2026-07-16", "feed_version": "7/17/2026,Service changes", "has_feed_info": true, "last_service_date": "2099-12-31", "seasonal_boundary": false, "service_horizon_review_years": 10, "service_horizon_status": "unusually_distant", "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 is published through 2099-12-31, an unusually distant end date. It may be intentional, but confirm it before treating the feed as maintained.", "weight": 0.2 }, "realtime": { "details": { "alerts_content": { "alerts": 10, "ended_over_30_days_ago": 0, "with_cause_and_effect": 10, "with_description": 10, "with_header_text": 10, "with_informed_entity": 10 }, "configured_kinds": [ "trip_updates", "vehicle_positions", "service_alerts" ], "coverage_pct": 80.0, "covered_trips": 8, "drift": { "median_seconds": -106, "observations": 399, "on_time_share_pct": 37.3, "p90_abs_seconds": 305 }, "kinds_configured": 3, "kinds_reachable": 3, "reachable_kinds": [ "trip_updates", "vehicle_positions", "service_alerts" ], "rt_freshness": "fresh", "samples": 9, "scheduled_trips_in_window": 10, "vehicles_checked": 23, "vehicles_on_route_pct": 95.7, "worst_lag_seconds": 0 }, "findings": [ { "code": "scorecard_rt_trip_coverage", "count": 2, "effort": "A vendor data-mapping question.", "fix": "Check with your AVL vendor that every vehicle assignment flows into TripUpdates, including school-day and tripper runs.", "owner": "", "points": 7.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "2 of 10 trips scheduled during the sampling window had no live predictions.", "why": "Riders on those trips get schedule data dressed up as realtime. Caltrans expects every operating trip in TripUpdates." } ], "name": "realtime", "score": 92.3, "status": "measured", "summary": "Sampled 9 times: 3 of 3 configured feeds healthy; 80.0% of scheduled trips had live predictions; 95.7% of vehicles on their route; predictions ran a median of 106s ahead of schedule.", "weight": 0.2 } }, "confidence": { "feed_age_days": 0, "fetch_source": "origin", "level": "high", "measured_categories": 4, "notes": [ "All four score categories were measured this run.", "Realtime was sampled in one bounded window of 9 snapshots.", "The feed was downloaded from the agency's own URL." ], "rt_windows": 1, "total_categories": 4 }, "conformance": { "awarded": false, "criteria": [ { "detail": "Passes validation with no errors.", "key": "valid", "met": true }, { "detail": "The published window is current, but its service end date is unusually distant; confirm that date is intentional.", "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": "2e889a1b795875ba61418f5011ebce96926d3308fc737089bf5228ef5382bc6a", "size_bytes": 509967, "static_url": "http://mountainline.syncromatics.com/gtfs" }, "fetch": { "final_url": "https://mountainline.syncromatics.com/gtfs", "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": "2026-08-01T00:00:00+00:00", "geo": { "bbox": [ -111.69772, 35.16029, -111.57335, 35.23897 ], "lat": 35.19932, "lon": -111.64737, "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": 9, "trip_count": 2753, "trip_share_pct": 100.0 } ], "primary_mode": "bus", "primary_mode_label": "Bus", "route_count": 9, "trip_count": 2753 }, "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": [ "243" ], "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": "The published window is current, but its service end date is unusually distant; confirm that date is intentional.", "key": "current", "status": "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": "ready", "summary": "Published at a public URL, valid, current, and identified with agency_id: the four feed checks for RY2026 all hold here. Only your own D-10 and P-50 filings make that official; this is a heads-up, not a determination." }, "overall": { "grade": "D", "margin_to_lower_band": 7.8, "margin_to_next_band": 2.2, "score": 67.8 }, "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 (4, 5, 66).", "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": 130, "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": "130 stop name(s) use abbreviations or symbols a screen reader may mispronounce, with no spoken form set (\"Route 66 / Thompson St (Mavrik) WB\", \"Route 66 / Railroad Springs Blvd WB\", \"Route 66 / Northwestern St (Hidden Hollow) WB\", 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": [], "orphan_stops": 0, "single_stop_trips": 0, "trips_total": 2753 }, "route_map": { "drawn_route_count": 9, "has_shapes": true, "path": "data/artifacts/mountain-line-transit/geometry.geojson", "route_count": 9, "routes": [ { "color": "0847DE", "color_name": "blue", "has_shape": true, "id": "6262", "label": "2", "long": "Route 02 - Blue", "short": "2", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "1A822F", "color_name": "green", "has_shape": true, "id": "6263", "label": "3", "long": "Route 03 - Green", "short": "3", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "AF8406", "color_name": "orange", "has_shape": true, "id": "6264", "label": "4", "long": "Route 04 - Gold", "short": "4", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "FA6317", "color_name": "orange", "has_shape": true, "id": "6265", "label": "5", "long": "Route 05 - Orange", "short": "5", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "B85C19", "color_name": "brown", "has_shape": true, "id": "6266", "label": "R14", "long": "Route 14 - Brown", "short": "R14", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "582C83", "color_name": "purple", "has_shape": true, "id": "6267", "label": "7", "long": "Route 07 - Purple", "short": "7", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "860000", "color_name": "red", "has_shape": true, "id": "6269", "label": "R10", "long": "Route 10 - Maroon", "short": "R10", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "F20200", "color_name": "red", "has_shape": true, "id": "6270", "label": "66", "long": "Route 66 - Red", "short": "66", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "1DA5C6", "color_name": "teal", "has_shape": true, "id": "6712", "label": "8", "long": "Route 8 to Woody Mountain Road", "short": "8", "text_color": "000000", "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 2753 trips have a shape in shapes.txt.", "status": "ready", "total_trips": 2753, "trips_with_shape": 2753 }, "snapshot_date": "2026-08-01", "top_fixes": [ { "code": "scorecard_wheelchair_boarding_unknown", "count": 181, "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": "181 of 181 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": 2753, "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": 2, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "2753 of 2753 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_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, "rank": 3, "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." } ], "validator_version": "8.0.1" }