{ "agency": { "id": "nevada-county-connects-gold-country-stage", "name": "Nevada County Connects (Gold Country Stage)", "subdivision_code": "US-CA", "subdivision_name": "California" }, "categories": { "completeness": { "details": { "accessibility": { "measures": "presence_not_usability", "score": 57.5, "stops_marked_accessible_pct": 92.0, "stops_marked_not_accessible_pct": 0.0, "stops_stated_pct": 92.0, "trips_stated_pct": 0.0 }, "accessibility_measures": "presence_not_usability", "cemv": { "declared": false, "supported": false }, "components": { "contact": 15.0, "fares": 15.0, "headsigns": 15.0, "stop_names": 15.0, "wheelchair_stops": 23.0, "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": 200, "headsign_loop_exempt_trips": 0, "headsign_pct": 100.0, "headsign_scored_pct": 100.0, "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": 251, "translations": { "feed_lang": "en", "has_translations": false, "languages": [], "translated_tables": [], "translation_count": 0 }, "trips": 200, "wheelchair_accessible_pct": 0.0, "wheelchair_boarding_pct": 92.0, "wheelchair_marked_accessible_pct": 92.0, "wheelchair_marked_not_accessible_pct": 0.0 }, "findings": [ { "code": "scorecard_wheelchair_boarding_unknown", "count": 20, "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": 2.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "20 of 251 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": 200, "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": "200 of 200 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." } ], "name": "completeness", "score": 83.0, "status": "measured", "summary": "92% of stops state wheelchair accessibility (92% 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": 6, "instances_by_severity": { "ERROR": 0, "INFO": 3, "WARNING": 32 }, "validator_version": "8.0.1" }, "findings": [ { "code": "stop_without_stop_time", "count": 28, "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": "expired_calendar", "count": 2, "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": "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": "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": "unknown_column", "count": 2, "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": 81.0, "status": "measured", "summary": "The MobilityData validator flagged 6 kinds of issue across 35 instances (0 error, 32 warning, 3 informational).", "weight": 0.35 }, "freshness": { "details": { "days_until_expiry": -182, "effective_expiry_date": "2026-01-31", "feed_end_date": "2026-01-31", "feed_start_date": "2025-07-25", "feed_version": "UTC: 28-Jul-2025 14:25", "has_feed_info": true, "last_service_date": "2026-01-31", "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 182 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 182 day(s) ago. Trip planners have likely already dropped this feed.", "weight": 0.2 }, "realtime": { "name": "realtime", "status": "not_yet_measured", "summary": "This agency publishes realtime, but the feed needs an access key we don't have 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 agency's own URL." ], "rt_windows": 0, "total_categories": 4 }, "conformance": { "awarded": false, "criteria": [ { "detail": "Passes validation with no errors.", "key": "valid", "met": true }, { "detail": "Service data expired 180 days ago.", "key": "current", "met": false }, { "detail": "States wheelchair access on 92% 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. Service data expired 180 days ago. States wheelchair access on 92% of stops and 0% of trips; the mark needs 90% of each." }, "feed": { "license_note": "License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "reachable": true, "sha256": "35813c7a77d2a27331a9cadc01dba45f0c4c65a8f40fd13c194d66ad11bb3c8f", "size_bytes": 302412, "static_url": "https://data.trilliumtransit.com/gtfs/goldcountrystage-ca-us/goldcountrystage-ca-us.zip" }, "fetch": { "final_url": "https://data.trilliumtransit.com/gtfs/goldcountrystage-ca-us/goldcountrystage-ca-us.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": "2026-07-30T00:00:00+00:00", "geo": { "bbox": [ -121.20505, 38.90302, -120.99036, 39.37071 ], "lat": 39.22468, "lon": -121.06131, "stop_count": 251 }, "mode_profile": { "ferry_only": false, "graded": false, "has_ferry": false, "is_multimodal": false, "measured": true, "modes": [ { "key": "bus", "label": "Bus", "route_count": 8, "trip_count": 200, "trip_share_pct": 100.0 } ], "primary_mode": "bus", "primary_mode_label": "Bus", "route_count": 8, "trip_count": 200 }, "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": [ "1523" ], "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 180 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 180 days ago, so FTA would find the link out of date." }, "overall": { "grade": "D", "margin_to_lower_band": 1.4, "margin_to_next_band": 8.6, "score": 61.4 }, "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 (1).", "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": 208, "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": "208 stop name(s) use abbreviations or symbols a screen reader may mispronounce, with no spoken form set (\"Zion St across from Rankins Trailer Park\", \"Zion St across from Forest Charter School\", \"Zion St at SPD Market and Seven Hills Ctr\", 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": "2026-08-01", "feed_fetched_date": "2026-07-31", "kind": "freshness" }, "routability": { "boardable_stops": 251, "findings": [ { "code": "scorecard_orphan_stops", "count": 28, "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": "28 of 251 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": 28, "single_stop_trips": 0, "trips_total": 200 }, "route_map": { "drawn_route_count": 8, "has_shapes": true, "path": "data/artifacts/nevada-county-connects-gold-country-stage/geometry.geojson", "route_count": 8, "routes": [ { "color": "F79433", "color_name": "orange", "has_shape": true, "id": "14210", "label": "AS", "long": "Grass Valley - Alta Sierra", "short": "AS", "text_color": "000000", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "8561AA", "color_name": "purple", "has_shape": true, "id": "14211", "label": "6", "long": "Grass Valley - Penn Valley", "short": "6", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "F79433", "color_name": "orange", "has_shape": true, "id": "14212", "label": "5", "long": "Grass Valley - Auburn", "short": "5", "text_color": "000000", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "853739", "color_name": "brown", "has_shape": true, "id": "14213", "label": "4", "long": "Grass Valley Downtown - Brunswick Basin", "short": "4", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "00A181", "color_name": "teal", "has_shape": true, "id": "14214", "label": "3", "long": "Grass Valley", "short": "3", "text_color": "000000", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "37C6F4", "color_name": "teal", "has_shape": true, "id": "14215", "label": "2", "long": "Grass Valley Downtown - Ridge Road", "short": "2", "text_color": "000000", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "ED1C24", "color_name": "red", "has_shape": true, "id": "14216", "label": "1", "long": "Nevada City - Grass Valley", "short": "1", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "FFFF00", "color_name": "yellow", "has_shape": true, "id": "16672", "label": "7", "long": "North San Juan", "short": "7", "text_color": "000000", "type_label": "Bus" } ], "stop_count": 251, "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 200 trips have a shape in shapes.txt.", "status": "ready", "total_trips": 200, "trips_with_shape": 200 }, "snapshot_date": "2026-08-01", "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 182 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": "scorecard_wheelchair_accessible_unknown", "count": 200, "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": "200 of 200 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": "stop_without_stop_time", "count": 28, "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, "rank": 3, "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." } ], "validator_version": "8.0.1" }