{ "agency": { "id": "piedmont-authority-for-regional-transportation-part", "name": "Piedmont Authority for Regional Transportation (PART)", "subdivision_code": "US-NC", "subdivision_name": "North Carolina" }, "categories": { "completeness": { "details": { "accessibility": { "measures": "presence_not_usability", "score": 84.4, "stops_marked_accessible_pct": 75.0, "stops_marked_not_accessible_pct": 0.0, "stops_stated_pct": 75.0, "trips_stated_pct": 100.0 }, "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": 18.8, "wheelchair_trips": 15.0 }, "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": 342, "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": true, "has_step_free": false, "pathway_count": 0 }, "stops": 116, "translations": { "feed_lang": "en", "has_translations": false, "languages": [], "translated_tables": [], "translation_count": 0 }, "trips": 342, "wheelchair_accessible_pct": 100.0, "wheelchair_boarding_pct": 75.0, "wheelchair_marked_accessible_pct": 75.0, "wheelchair_marked_not_accessible_pct": 0.0 }, "findings": [ { "code": "scorecard_wheelchair_boarding_unknown", "count": 29, "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": 6.2, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "29 of 116 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_station_no_pathways", "count": 1, "effort": "Worth it for multi-level or large stations; flat stops don't need it.", "fix": "Add pathways.txt connecting entrances, platforms, and any elevators, with a level for each.", "owner": "", "points": 0.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "This feed models stations or entrances but has no pathways.txt.", "why": "Trip planners can't guide riders through the station, and there is no step-free route information for wheelchair users." } ], "name": "completeness", "score": 93.8, "status": "measured", "summary": "75% of stops state wheelchair accessibility (75% 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": 5, "instances_by_severity": { "ERROR": 0, "INFO": 0, "WARNING": 18 }, "validator_version": "8.0.1" }, "findings": [ { "code": "stop_without_stop_time", "count": 7, "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": "equal_shape_distance_diff_coordinates_distance_below_threshold", "count": 6, "effort": "Varies.", "fix": "Review the rule documentation for 'equal_shape_distance_diff_coordinates_distance_below_threshold' at https://gtfs-validator.mobilitydata.org/rules.html and check the flagged rows in your feed.", "owner": "", "points": 6.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "Equal shape distance diff coordinates distance below threshold (flagged by the MobilityData validator).", "why": "See the linked rule for what this affects." }, { "code": "stop_too_far_from_shape_using_user_distance", "count": 3, "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": 4.0, "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": 1, "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": "mixed_case_recommended_field", "count": 1, "effort": "Often a bulk fix in your scheduling software.", "fix": "Use mixed case for stop names and headsigns (e.g. 'Main St & 2nd Ave', not 'MAIN ST & 2ND AVE').", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 4.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "Some rider-facing names are in ALL CAPS or all lowercase.", "why": "ALL-CAPS stop and headsign names are harder to read in apps and are read awkwardly by screen readers." } ], "name": "correctness", "score": 76.0, "status": "measured", "summary": "The MobilityData validator flagged 5 kinds of issue across 18 instances (0 error, 18 warning, 0 informational).", "weight": 0.35 }, "freshness": { "details": { "days_until_expiry": 130, "effective_expiry_date": "2026-12-31", "feed_end_date": "2026-12-31", "feed_start_date": "2026-03-16", "feed_version": "20260316", "has_feed_info": true, "last_service_date": "2026-12-31", "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 130 days.", "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": "Passes validation with no errors.", "key": "valid", "met": true }, { "detail": "Service data covers the next 130 days.", "key": "current", "met": true }, { "detail": "States wheelchair access on 75% of stops and 100% of trips; the mark needs 90% of each.", "key": "accessible", "met": false } ], "status": "not_yet", "summary": "One requirement remains for this feed to earn the conformance mark. States wheelchair access on 75% of stops and 100% of trips; the mark needs 90% of each.", "version": 2 }, "feed": { "license_note": "License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "reachable": true, "sha256": "ebadc0f2485bdad5360bba405255aa4796daef0ce49bdf9035b9bbafb3030202", "size_bytes": 312299, "source_provenance": "unverified", "static_url": "https://rapid.nationalrtap.org/GTFSFileManagement/UserUploadFiles/5137/gtfs.zip" }, "fetch": { "final_url": "https://rapid.nationalrtap.org/GTFSFileManagement/UserUploadFiles/5137/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": "2026-08-21T00:00:00+00:00", "geo": { "bbox": [ -80.29852, 35.63112, -79.05125, 36.11843 ], "lat": 36.05422, "lon": -79.95845, "stop_count": 116 }, "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": 342, "trip_share_pct": 100.0 } ], "primary_mode": "bus", "primary_mode_label": "Bus", "route_count": 8, "trip_count": 342 }, "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": [ "PART" ], "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 132 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": 7.6, "margin_to_next_band": 2.4, "score": 87.6 }, "recommendations": [ { "category": "accessibility", "code": "scorecard_route_color_low_contrast", "count": 2, "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": "2 route badge(s) pair a color and text color below the WCAG 4.5:1 contrast bar (2, 10).", "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": 73, "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": "73 stop name(s) use abbreviations or symbols a screen reader may mispronounce, with no spoken form set (\"4th & Chestnut\", \"5th & Chestnut (Drop off only for Routes 1 & 17)\", \"Centennial & Hawthorne\", 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." }, { "category": "accessibility", "code": "scorecard_station_missing_step_free_data", "count": 2, "effort": "Worth it for multi-level or large stations; flat stops don't need it.", "fix": "Add pathways.txt connecting entrances, platforms, and elevators, and levels.txt for each floor, so the step-free route is described.", "owner": "", "points": 0.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "This feed models stations or entrances but has no pathways.txt and levels.txt.", "why": "Without pathways and levels, a wheelchair user can't tell whether a step-free route exists inside the station, and trip planners can't route anyone through it." } ], "recompute": { "as_of": "2026-08-23", "feed_fetched_date": "2026-08-22", "kind": "freshness" }, "routability": { "boardable_stops": 115, "findings": [ { "code": "scorecard_orphan_stops", "count": 7, "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": "7 of 115 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": 7, "single_stop_trips": 0, "trips_total": 342 }, "route_map": { "drawn_route_count": 8, "has_shapes": true, "path": "data/artifacts/piedmont-authority-for-regional-transportation-part/geometry.geojson", "route_count": 8, "routes": [ { "color": "9A3ABA", "color_name": "purple", "has_shape": true, "id": "1", "label": "1", "long": "Winston Salem Express", "short": "1", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "E87F0E", "color_name": "orange", "has_shape": true, "id": "10", "label": "10", "long": "Randolph Express", "short": "10", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "272EF5", "color_name": "blue", "has_shape": true, "id": "17", "label": "17", "long": "Kernersville Express", "short": "17", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "3ABA62", "color_name": "green", "has_shape": true, "id": "2", "label": "2", "long": "Greensboro Express", "short": "2", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "6C6CC1", "color_name": "purple", "has_shape": true, "id": "3", "label": "3", "long": "High Point Express", "short": "3", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "D4260F", "color_name": "red", "has_shape": true, "id": "4", "label": "4", "long": "Alamance Burlington Express", "short": "4", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "5D1010", "color_name": "black", "has_shape": true, "id": "74", "label": "74", "long": "Winston Salem High Point Express", "short": "74", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "07875C", "color_name": "green", "has_shape": true, "id": "9", "label": "9", "long": "Davidson County Greensboro Express", "short": "9", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" } ], "stop_count": 116, "stop_points_capped": false }, "rubric_version": "1.3", "schema_version": "1.18", "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 342 trips have a shape in shapes.txt.", "status": "ready", "total_trips": 342, "trips_with_shape": 342 }, "snapshot_date": "2026-08-23", "top_fixes": [ { "code": "scorecard_wheelchair_boarding_unknown", "count": 29, "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. 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