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A field survey can start with the busiest stops.", "owner": "Likely your team", "points": 0.5, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "1 of 50 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": 723, "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": "723 of 723 trips don't say whether the vehicle is wheelchair accessible.", "why": "Even with accessible stops, riders need to know the transit vehicle itself can take them." }, { "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": 77.0, "status": "measured", "summary": "98% of stops state wheelchair accessibility (98% 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": 3, "instances_by_severity": { "ERROR": 0, "INFO": 0, "WARNING": 565 }, "validator_version": "8.0.1" }, "findings": [ { "code": "missing_bike_allowance", "count": 563, "effort": "Varies.", "fix": "Review the rule documentation for 'missing_bike_allowance' at https://gtfs-validator.mobilitydata.org/rules.html and check the flagged rows in your feed.", "owner": "", "points": 8.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "Missing bike allowance (flagged by the MobilityData validator).", "why": "See the linked rule for what this affects." }, { "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": "route_color_contrast", "count": 1, "effort": "One field per route.", "fix": "Pick a darker/lighter route_text_color for the flagged routes.", "owner": "", "points": 4.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "Some route colors don't contrast with their text color.", "why": "Route badges get hard to read, most of all for riders with low vision." } ], "name": "correctness", "score": 84.0, "status": "measured", "summary": "The MobilityData validator flagged 3 kinds of issue across 565 instances (0 error, 565 warning, 0 informational).", "weight": 0.35 }, "freshness": { "details": { "days_until_expiry": 517, "effective_expiry_date": "2027-12-31", "feed_end_date": "2027-12-31", "feed_start_date": "2026-07-06", "feed_version": "20260729", "has_feed_info": true, "last_service_date": "2027-12-31", "seasonal_boundary": false, "service_horizon_review_years": 10, "service_horizon_status": "within_review_threshold", "service_type": "fixed" }, "findings": [], "name": "freshness", "score": 100.0, "status": "measured", "summary": "Service data covers the next 517 days.", "weight": 0.2 }, "realtime": { "details": { "alerts_content": { "alerts": 0, "ended_over_30_days_ago": 0, "with_cause_and_effect": 0, "with_description": 0, "with_header_text": 0, "with_informed_entity": 0 }, "configured_kinds": [ "trip_updates", "service_alerts" ], "coverage_pct": 91.3, "covered_trips": 21, "drift": { "median_seconds": -154, "observations": 70, "on_time_share_pct": 20.0, "p90_abs_seconds": 632 }, "kinds_configured": 2, "kinds_reachable": 2, "reachable_kinds": [ "trip_updates", "service_alerts" ], "rt_freshness": "fresh", "samples": 6, "scheduled_trips_in_window": 23, "worst_lag_seconds": 5 }, "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": 3.6, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "2 of 23 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": 96.4, "status": "measured", "summary": "Sampled 6 times: 2 of 2 configured feeds healthy; 91.3% of scheduled trips had live predictions; predictions ran a median of 154s 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 6 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": "Service data covers the next 517 days.", "key": "current", "met": true }, { "detail": "States wheelchair access on 98% 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 98% of stops and 0% of trips; the mark needs 90% of each." }, "feed": { "license_note": "License: https://www.ferry.nyc/developer-tools/", "reachable": true, "sha256": "b66f1ec50d71c3de23d2aa06bfafae584569609e1a022ecf2b80f3570609b3e0", "size_bytes": 44334, "static_url": "http://nycferry.connexionz.net/rtt/public/utility/gtfs.aspx" }, "ferry_profile": { "accessibility": { "measures": "published_values_not_physical_usability", "terminals": { "allowed_count": 25, "allowed_pct": 100.0, "not_allowed_count": 0, "not_allowed_pct": 0.0, "stated_count": 25, "stated_pct": 100.0, "total_count": 25 }, "trips": { "allowed_count": 0, "allowed_pct": 0.0, "not_allowed_count": 0, "not_allowed_pct": 0.0, "stated_count": 0, "stated_pct": 0.0, "total_count": 563 } }, "bikes": { "allowed_count": 0, "allowed_pct": 0.0, "not_allowed_count": 0, "not_allowed_pct": 0.0, "stated_count": 0, "stated_pct": 0.0, "total_count": 563 }, "cars": { "allowed_count": 0, "allowed_pct": 0.0, "not_allowed_count": 0, "not_allowed_pct": 0.0, "stated_count": 0, "stated_pct": 0.0, "total_count": 563 }, "fares": { "applied": true, "fare_free": false, "model": "legacy", "scope": "whole_feed" }, "graded": false, "measured": true, "realtime": { "configured_kinds": [ "trip_updates", "service_alerts" ], "kinds_configured": 2, "scope": "whole_feed" }, "route_count": 7, "scope": "ferry_routes_and_trips", "stop_access": { "direct_count": 0, "eligible_terminal_count": 0, "stated_count": 0, "stated_pct": null, "through_station_count": 0 }, "terminal_hierarchy": { "boarding_location_count": 25, "parented_boarding_location_count": 0, "parented_boarding_location_pct": 0.0, "referenced_station_count": 0 }, "trip_count": 563 }, "fetch": { "final_url": "http://nycferry.connexionz.net/rtt/public/resource/gtfs.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": "2026-08-01T00:00:00+00:00", "geo": { "bbox": [ -74.07423, 40.56616, -73.76914, 40.80546 ], "lat": 40.59606, "lon": -73.8641, "stop_count": 50 }, "mode_profile": { "ferry_only": false, "graded": false, "has_ferry": true, "is_multimodal": true, "measured": true, "modes": [ { "key": "bus", "label": "Bus", "route_count": 2, "trip_count": 160, "trip_share_pct": 22.1 }, { "key": "ferry", "label": "Ferry", "route_count": 7, "trip_count": 563, "trip_share_pct": 77.9 } ], "primary_mode": "ferry", "primary_mode_label": "Ferry", "route_count": 9, "trip_count": 723 }, "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": [ "1" ], "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 covers the next 517 days.", "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": "B", "margin_to_lower_band": 7.9, "margin_to_next_band": 2.1, "score": 87.9 }, "recommendations": [ { "category": "accessibility", "code": "scorecard_route_color_low_contrast", "count": 7, "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": "7 route badge(s) pair a color and text color below the WCAG 4.5:1 contrast bar (AS, ER, GI, RES, RR, and more).", "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": 34, "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": "34 stop name(s) use abbreviations or symbols a screen reader may mispronounce, with no spoken form set (\"Atlantic Ave/BBP Pier 6\", \"Beach Channel Dr/Beach 108th Street\", \"Dumbo/Fulton Ferry\", 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": 50, "findings": [], "orphan_stops": 0, "single_stop_trips": 0, "trips_total": 723 }, "route_map": { "drawn_route_count": 9, "has_shapes": true, "path": "data/artifacts/nyc-ferry/geometry.geojson", "route_count": 9, "routes": [ { "color": "FF6B00", "color_name": "orange", "has_shape": true, "id": "AS", "label": "AS", "long": "Astoria", "short": "AS", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Ferry" }, { "color": "00839C", "color_name": "teal", "has_shape": true, "id": "ER", "label": "ER", "long": "East River", "short": "ER", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Ferry" }, { "color": "9795A0", "color_name": "gray", "has_shape": true, "id": "GI", "label": "GI", "long": "Governors Island Shuttle", "short": "GI", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Ferry" }, { "color": "00A1E1", "color_name": "teal", "has_shape": true, "id": "RES", "label": "RES", "long": "Rockaway East", "short": "RES", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "FF8672", "color_name": "pink", "has_shape": true, "id": "RR", "label": "RR", "long": "Rockaway Rocket", "short": "RR", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Ferry" }, { "color": "4E008E", "color_name": "purple", "has_shape": true, "id": "RS", "label": "RS", "long": "Rockaway-Soundview", "short": "RS", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Ferry" }, { "color": "00A1E1", "color_name": "teal", "has_shape": true, "id": "RWS", "label": "RWS", "long": "Rockaway West", "short": "RWS", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "FFD100", "color_name": "yellow", "has_shape": true, "id": "SB", "label": "SB", "long": "South Brooklyn", "short": "SB", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Ferry" }, { "color": "D0006F", "color_name": "red", "has_shape": true, "id": "SG", "label": "SG", "long": "St. George", "short": "SG", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Ferry" } ], "stop_count": 50, "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 723 trips have a shape in shapes.txt.", "status": "ready", "total_trips": 723, "trips_with_shape": 723 }, "snapshot_date": "2026-08-01", "top_fixes": [ { "code": "scorecard_wheelchair_accessible_unknown", "count": 723, "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": 1, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "723 of 723 trips don't say whether the vehicle is wheelchair accessible.", "why": "Even with accessible stops, riders need to know the transit vehicle itself can take them." }, { "code": "missing_bike_allowance", "count": 563, "effort": "Varies.", "fix": "Review the rule documentation for 'missing_bike_allowance' at https://gtfs-validator.mobilitydata.org/rules.html and check the flagged rows in your feed.", "owner": "", "points": 8.0, "rank": 2, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "Missing bike allowance (flagged by the MobilityData validator).", "why": "See the linked rule for what this affects." }, { "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, "rank": 3, "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." } ], "validator_version": "8.0.1" }