{ "agency": { "id": "mountain-lynx-transit-2447", "name": "Mountain Lynx Transit Flex", "subdivision_code": "US-VA", "subdivision_name": "Virginia" }, "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": 15.0, "headsigns": 0.6, "stop_names": 15.0, "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": true, "booking_rule_count": 11, "has_booking_rules": true, "has_flex": true }, "has_fares": true, "headsign_applicable_trips": 389, "headsign_loop_exempt_trips": 11, "headsign_pct": 1.5, "headsign_scored_pct": 4.2, "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": 86, "translations": { "feed_lang": "en", "has_translations": false, "languages": [], "translated_tables": [], "translation_count": 0 }, "trips": 400, "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": 86, "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": "86 of 86 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": 400, "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": "400 of 400 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_headsigns", "count": 383, "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": 14.4, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "383 of 400 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_flex_service", "count": 1, "effort": "None.", "fix": "No action needed.", "owner": "", "points": 0.0, "severity": "INFO", "what": "This feed includes flexible (demand-responsive) service, and riders are told how to book it.", "why": "Dial-a-ride and zone service are described for trip planners, not just fixed routes." } ], "name": "completeness", "score": 45.6, "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": 9, "instances_by_severity": { "ERROR": 16, "INFO": 39, "WARNING": 740 }, "validator_version": "8.0.1" }, "findings": [ { "code": "invalid_pickup_drop_off_window", "count": 16, "effort": "Varies.", "fix": "Review the rule documentation for 'invalid_pickup_drop_off_window' at https://gtfs-validator.mobilitydata.org/rules.html and check the flagged rows in your feed.", "owner": "", "points": 18.0, "severity": "ERROR", "what": "Invalid pickup drop off window (flagged by the MobilityData validator).", "why": "See the linked rule for what this affects." }, { "code": "missing_pickup_drop_off_booking_rule_id", "count": 598, "effort": "Varies.", "fix": "Review the rule documentation for 'missing_pickup_drop_off_booking_rule_id' at https://gtfs-validator.mobilitydata.org/rules.html and check the flagged rows in your feed.", "owner": "", "points": 8.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "Missing pickup drop off booking rule id (flagged by the MobilityData validator).", "why": "See the linked rule for what this affects." }, { "code": "expired_calendar", "count": 103, "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": 8.0, "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": 32, "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": "leading_or_trailing_whitespaces", "count": 6, "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": 6.0, "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": "feed_expiration_date30_days", "count": 1, "effort": "Usually a re-export from your scheduling software.", "fix": "Schedule a feed re-export now so the new calendar is live well before the current one ends.", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 4.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "This feed's service calendar runs out within the next 30 days.", "why": "If a new feed isn't published before it ends, trip planners will drop your agency and riders will see no service." }, { "code": "unknown_column", "count": 21, "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": 0.8, "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": "service_window_outside_feed_period", "count": 10, "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": 0.8, "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_file", "count": 8, "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": 0.8, "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": 47.8, "status": "measured", "summary": "The MobilityData validator flagged 9 kinds of issue across 795 instances (16 error, 740 warning, 39 informational).", "weight": 0.35 }, "freshness": { "details": { "days_until_expiry": -17, "effective_expiry_date": "2026-08-06", "feed_end_date": "2026-08-06", "feed_start_date": "2025-07-29", "feed_version": "UTC: 30-Jul-2025 01:28", "has_feed_info": true, "last_service_date": "2026-08-06", "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 17 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 17 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": "1 validator error to resolve.", "key": "valid", "met": false }, { "detail": "Service data expired 17 days ago.", "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 does not meet the conformance requirements yet. Here is what the mark needs: 1 validator error to resolve. Service data expired 17 days ago. States wheelchair access on 0% of stops and 0% of trips; the mark needs 90% of each.", "version": 2 }, "feed": { "license_note": "No stated data license in the Mobility Database; verify before publishing.", "reachable": true, "sha256": "564db8cc14d0fb35e3e8c24820ef965190018fdffb37ea2159b25a9175e907cb", "size_bytes": 394430, "source_provenance": "unverified", "static_url": "https://data.trilliumtransit.com/gtfs/districtthree-va-us/districtthree-va-us--flex-v2.zip" }, "fetch": { "final_url": "https://data.trilliumtransit.com/gtfs/districtthree-va-us/districtthree-va-us--flex-v2.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": "2026-08-10T00:00:00+00:00", "geo": { "bbox": [ -82.22704, 36.5877, -80.6072, 37.24004 ], "lat": 36.76594, "lon": -81.50411, "stop_count": 86 }, "mode_profile": { "ferry_only": false, "graded": false, "has_ferry": false, "is_multimodal": false, "measured": true, "modes": [ { "key": "bus", "label": "Bus", "route_count": 21, "trip_count": 400, "trip_share_pct": 100.0 } ], "primary_mode": "bus", "primary_mode_label": "Bus", "route_count": 21, "trip_count": 400 }, "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": [ "1816" ], "status": "unknown" }, "ntd_readiness": { "pillars": [ { "detail": "Published at a public URL.", "key": "published", "status": "ready" }, { "detail": "1 validator error to resolve.", "key": "valid", "status": "at_risk" }, { "detail": "Service data expired 4 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. 1 validator error to resolve. Service data expired 4 days ago, so FTA would find the link out of date." }, "overall": { "grade": "F", "margin_to_lower_band": 35.2, "margin_to_next_band": 24.8, "score": 35.2 }, "recommendations": [ { "category": "accessibility", "code": "scorecard_route_color_low_contrast", "count": 5, "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": "5 route badge(s) pair a color and text color below the WCAG 4.5:1 contrast bar (Abingdon Silver Loop, Galax Blue Loop, Marion Summer Express Loop, Marion Town Loop, Marion-Atkins Loop).", "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": 10, "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": "10 stop name(s) use abbreviations or symbols a screen reader may mispronounce, with no spoken form set (\"Marion Plaza/Tractor Supply (Marion)\", \"Main St & Pendleton St (Downtown Marion)\", \"W Main St & S Sheffey Street (Marion)\", 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": 86, "findings": [ { "code": "scorecard_orphan_stops", "count": 32, "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": "32 of 86 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": 32, "single_stop_trips": 0, "trips_total": 400 }, "route_map": { "drawn_route_count": 10, "has_shapes": true, "path": "data/artifacts/mountain-lynx-transit-2447/geometry.geojson", "route_count": 21, "routes": [ { "color": "052CB8", "color_name": "blue", "has_shape": true, "id": "19616", "label": "Abingdon Blue Loop", "long": "Abingdon Blue Loop", "short": "", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "999999", "color_name": "gray", "has_shape": true, "id": "19617", "label": "Abingdon Silver Loop", "long": "Abingdon Silver Loop", "short": "", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "00A3C9", "color_name": "teal", "has_shape": true, "id": "19619", "label": "Galax Blue Loop", "long": "Galax Blue Loop", "short": "", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "E50000", "color_name": "red", "has_shape": true, "id": "19620", "label": "Galax Red Loop", "long": "Galax Red Loop", "short": "", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "009EAA", "color_name": "teal", "has_shape": true, "id": "19621", "label": "Marion Town Loop", "long": "Marion Town Loop", "short": "", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "C77200", "color_name": "orange", "has_shape": true, "id": "19622", "label": "Marion Summer Express Loop", "long": "Marion Summer Express Loop", "short": "", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "A10D0D", "color_name": "red", "has_shape": true, "id": "19623", "label": "Wytheville Maroon Loop", "long": "Wytheville Maroon Loop", "short": "", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "666666", "color_name": "gray", "has_shape": true, "id": "19624", "label": "Wytheville Gray Loop", "long": "Wytheville Gray Loop", "short": "", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "00BE09", "color_name": "green", "has_shape": true, "id": "19625", "label": "Marion-Atkins Loop", "long": "Marion-Atkins Loop", "short": "", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "007619", "color_name": "green", "has_shape": true, "id": "19626", "label": "Marion-Mount Rogers Loop", "long": "Marion-Mount Rogers Loop", "short": "", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "1A7A46", "color_name": "green", "has_shape": false, "id": "76336", "label": "College Express", "long": "College Express", "short": "", "text_color": "000000", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "1A7A46", "color_name": "green", "has_shape": false, "id": "77114", "label": "City of Galax - 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It is not a worldwide standard or a compliance determination.", "rubric_version": "1.3" }, "shapes_readiness": { "detail": "122 of 400 trips have a shape; 278 do not.", "fix": "Fill in shapes.txt and trips.shape_id for the remaining trips so every trip has a path. Reduced, Rural, and Tribal NTD reporters need full coverage by Report Year 2026.", "status": "at_risk", "total_trips": 400, "trips_with_shape": 122 }, "snapshot_date": "2026-08-23", "top_fixes": [ { "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, "rank": 1, "severity": "ERROR", "what": "Service data ended 17 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." }, { "code": "invalid_pickup_drop_off_window", "count": 16, "effort": "Varies.", "fix": "Review the rule documentation for 'invalid_pickup_drop_off_window' 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": "Invalid pickup drop off window (flagged by the MobilityData validator).", "why": "See the linked rule for what this affects." }, { "code": "scorecard_wheelchair_boarding_unknown", "count": 86, "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": 3, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "86 of 86 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." } ], "validator_version": "8.0.1" }