{ "agency": { "country": "CA", "id": "up-express", "name": "Union Pearson Express (UP Express)", "operating_note": "The airport rail link between Union Station and Toronto Pearson, published by Metrolinx; counted as one feed record.", "subdivision_code": "CA-ON", "subdivision_name": "Ontario" }, "categories": { "completeness": { "details": { "accessibility": { "measures": "presence_not_usability", "score": 100.0, "stops_marked_accessible_pct": 100.0, "stops_marked_not_accessible_pct": 0.0, "stops_stated_pct": 100.0, "trips_stated_pct": 100.0 }, "accessibility_measures": "presence_not_usability", "cemv": { "declared": false, "supported": false }, "components": { "contact": 7.5, "fares": 0.0, "headsigns": 15.0, "stop_names": 15.0, "wheelchair_stops": 25.0, "wheelchair_trips": 15.0 }, "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": 28536, "headsign_loop_exempt_trips": 0, "headsign_pct": 100.0, "headsign_scored_pct": 100.0, "headsign_stop_headsign_trips": 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": 5, "translations": { "feed_lang": "en", "has_translations": false, "languages": [], "translated_tables": [], "translation_count": 0 }, "trips": 28536, "unmeasured_components": [], "wheelchair_accessible_pct": 100.0, "wheelchair_boarding_pct": 100.0, "wheelchair_marked_accessible_pct": 100.0, "wheelchair_marked_not_accessible_pct": 0.0 }, "findings": [ { "code": "scorecard_no_fare_data", "consequence": { "absences": [ "Rider-trip figures come from the United States National Transit Database, which does not cover this feed's country.", "This record does not store transit need. The agency page and its reports add it from the need overlays and name their date." ], "code": "scorecard_no_fare_data", "line": "This one is about the feed as a whole, so there is no share of it to count.", "reach": { "affected": null, "basis": "none", "basis_label": null, "reason": "feed_level", "share": null, "total": null, "total_source": null }, "ridership": { "annual_rider_trips": null, "ntd_id": null, "reason": "outside_ridership_scope" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "ca_cimd", "tier": null } }, "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_no_feed_contact", "consequence": { "absences": [ "Rider-trip figures come from the United States National Transit Database, which does not cover this feed's country.", "This record does not store transit need. The agency page and its reports add it from the need overlays and name their date." ], "code": "scorecard_no_feed_contact", "line": "This one is about the feed as a whole, so there is no share of it to count.", "reach": { "affected": null, "basis": "none", "basis_label": null, "reason": "feed_level", "share": null, "total": null, "total_source": null }, "ridership": { "annual_rider_trips": null, "ntd_id": null, "reason": "outside_ridership_scope" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "ca_cimd", "tier": null } }, "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": "App makers and state data programs have nobody to email when they spot a problem. Small errors then sit in the feed for months." } ], "name": "completeness", "score": 77.5, "status": "measured", "summary": "100% of stops state wheelchair accessibility (100% 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": 5, "instances_by_severity": { "ERROR": 1, "INFO": 28537, "WARNING": 5 }, "validator_version": "8.0.1" }, "findings": [ { "code": "invalid_phone_number", "consequence": { "absences": [ "Rider-trip figures come from the United States National Transit Database, which does not cover this feed's country.", "This record does not store transit need. The agency page and its reports add it from the need overlays and name their date." ], "code": "invalid_phone_number", "line": "This is a validator notice, and the validator decides what each instance covers, so no share of the network can be read from it here.", "reach": { "affected": null, "basis": "none", "basis_label": null, "reason": "validator_notice", "share": null, "total": null, "total_source": null }, "ridership": { "annual_rider_trips": null, "ntd_id": null, "reason": "outside_ridership_scope" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "ca_cimd", "tier": null } }, "count": 1, "effort": "Varies.", "fix": "Review the rule documentation for 'invalid_phone_number' at https://gtfs-validator.mobilitydata.org/rules.html and check the flagged rows in your feed.", "owner": "", "points": 12.0, "severity": "ERROR", "what": "Invalid phone number (flagged by the MobilityData validator).", "why": "See the linked rule for what this affects." }, { "code": "stop_too_far_from_shape_using_user_distance", "consequence": { "absences": [ "Rider-trip figures come from the United States National Transit Database, which does not cover this feed's country.", "This record does not store transit need. The agency page and its reports add it from the need overlays and name their date." ], "code": "stop_too_far_from_shape_using_user_distance", "line": "This is a validator notice, and the validator decides what each instance covers, so no share of the network can be read from it here.", "reach": { "affected": null, "basis": "none", "basis_label": null, "reason": "validator_notice", "share": null, "total": null, "total_source": null }, "ridership": { "annual_rider_trips": null, "ntd_id": null, "reason": "outside_ridership_scope" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "ca_cimd", "tier": null } }, "count": 4, "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 path or point riders to the wrong boarding location." }, { "code": "missing_feed_contact_email_and_url", "consequence": { "absences": [ "Rider-trip figures come from the United States National Transit Database, which does not cover this feed's country.", "This record does not store transit need. The agency page and its reports add it from the need overlays and name their date." ], "code": "missing_feed_contact_email_and_url", "line": "This is a validator notice, and the validator decides what each instance covers, so no share of the network can be read from it here.", "reach": { "affected": null, "basis": "none", "basis_label": null, "reason": "validator_notice", "share": null, "total": null, "total_source": null }, "ridership": { "annual_rider_trips": null, "ntd_id": null, "reason": "outside_ridership_scope" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "ca_cimd", "tier": null } }, "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": "unsorted_stop_times", "consequence": { "absences": [ "Rider-trip figures come from the United States National Transit Database, which does not cover this feed's country.", "This record does not store transit need. The agency page and its reports add it from the need overlays and name their date." ], "code": "unsorted_stop_times", "line": "This is a validator notice, and the validator decides what each instance covers, so no share of the network can be read from it here.", "reach": { "affected": null, "basis": "none", "basis_label": null, "reason": "validator_notice", "share": null, "total": null, "total_source": null }, "ridership": { "annual_rider_trips": null, "ntd_id": null, "reason": "outside_ridership_scope" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "ca_cimd", "tier": null } }, "count": 28536, "effort": "Varies.", "fix": "Review the rule documentation for 'unsorted_stop_times' at https://gtfs-validator.mobilitydata.org/rules.html and check the flagged rows in your feed.", "owner": "", "points": 1.0, "severity": "INFO", "what": "Unsorted stop times (flagged by the MobilityData validator).", "why": "See the linked rule for what this affects." }, { "code": "unknown_file", "consequence": { "absences": [ "Rider-trip figures come from the United States National Transit Database, which does not cover this feed's country.", "This record does not store transit need. The agency page and its reports add it from the need overlays and name their date." ], "code": "unknown_file", "line": "This is a validator notice, and the validator decides what each instance covers, so no share of the network can be read from it here.", "reach": { "affected": null, "basis": "none", "basis_label": null, "reason": "validator_notice", "share": null, "total": null, "total_source": null }, "ridership": { "annual_rider_trips": null, "ntd_id": null, "reason": "outside_ridership_scope" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "ca_cimd", "tier": null } }, "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": 78.5, "status": "measured", "summary": "The MobilityData validator flagged 5 kinds of issue across 28543 instances (1 error, 5 warning, 28537 informational).", "weight": 0.35 }, "freshness": { "details": { "days_until_expiry": 172, "effective_expiry_date": "2027-04-05", "expiry_limited_by": "both", "feed_end_date": "2027-04-05", "feed_start_date": "2026-10-07", "feed_version": "20261007124315", "has_feed_info": true, "last_service_date": "2027-04-05", "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 172 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 official feed URL on file." ], "rt_windows": 0, "total_categories": 4 }, "conformance": { "awarded": false, "criteria": [ { "detail": "1 validator error to resolve.", "key": "valid", "met": false }, { "detail": "Service data covers the next 172 days.", "key": "current", "met": true }, { "detail": "States wheelchair access on 100% of stops and 100% of trips.", "key": "accessible", "met": true } ], "status": "not_yet", "summary": "One requirement remains for this feed to earn the conformance mark. 1 validator error to resolve.", "version": 2 }, "feed": { "license_note": "Open Government Licence \u2013 Ontario (Metrolinx): a licence to use, reproduce, and redistribute the data, including commercially, with attribution to Metrolinx. Derived measurements by GTFS Scorecard.", "reachable": true, "sha256": "cf805c859a4fcf9bc5cdc098979c8166204a3c2772c57b8b7522bc9db270856b", "size_bytes": 920112, "source_provenance": "official", "static_url": "https://assets.metrolinx.com/raw/upload/Documents/Metrolinx/Open%20Data/UP-GTFS.zip" }, "fetch": { "final_url": "https://assets.metrolinx.com/raw/upload/Documents/Metrolinx/Open%20Data/UP-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": "2026-10-15T00:00:00+00:00", "geo": { "bbox": [ -79.61297, 43.64424, -79.38356, 43.70029 ], "lat": 43.68268, "lon": -79.48703, "stop_count": 5 }, "mode_profile": { "ferry_only": false, "graded": false, "has_ferry": false, "is_multimodal": false, "measured": true, "modes": [ { "key": "rail", "label": "Rail", "route_count": 1, "trip_count": 28536, "trip_share_pct": 100.0 } ], "primary_mode": "rail", "primary_mode_label": "Rail", "route_count": 1, "trip_count": 28536 }, "overall": { "grade": "B", "margin_to_lower_band": 3.6, "margin_to_next_band": 6.4, "score": 83.6 }, "recommendations": [ { "category": "accessibility", "code": "scorecard_stop_name_needs_tts", "count": 3, "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": "3 stop name(s) use abbreviations or symbols a screen reader may mispronounce, with no spoken form set (\"Weston GO/UP\", \"Mount Dennis GO/UP\", \"Bloor GO/UP\").", "why": "A screen reader speaks the raw name. 'Main St & 2nd Ave' can come out as 'Main saint', or lose the ampersand." } ], "routability": { "boardable_stops": 5, "findings": [], "orphan_stops": 0, "single_stop_trips": 0, "trips_total": 28536 }, "route_map": { "drawn_route_count": 1, "has_shapes": true, "path": "data/artifacts/up-express/geometry.geojson", "route_count": 1, "routes": [ { "color": "0075D2", "color_name": "teal", "has_shape": true, "id": "UP", "label": "UP", "long": "Union Pearson Express", "short": "UP", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Rail" } ], "stop_count": 5, "stop_points_capped": false }, "rubric_version": "1.4", "schema_version": "1.19", "scoring_profile": { "id": "gtfs-scorecard-1.4", "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": "1.4" }, "snapshot_date": "2026-10-15", "top_fixes": [ { "code": "invalid_phone_number", "consequence": { "absences": [ "Rider-trip figures come from the United States National Transit Database, which does not cover this feed's country.", "This record does not store transit need. 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The agency page and its reports add it from the need overlays and name their date." ], "code": "scorecard_no_fare_data", "line": "This one is about the feed as a whole, so there is no share of it to count.", "reach": { "affected": null, "basis": "none", "basis_label": null, "reason": "feed_level", "share": null, "total": null, "total_source": null }, "ridership": { "annual_rider_trips": null, "ntd_id": null, "reason": "outside_ridership_scope" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "ca_cimd", "tier": null } }, "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, "rank": 2, "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": "stop_too_far_from_shape_using_user_distance", "consequence": { "absences": [ "Rider-trip figures come from the United States National Transit Database, which does not cover this feed's country.", "This record does not store transit need. The agency page and its reports add it from the need overlays and name their date." ], "code": "stop_too_far_from_shape_using_user_distance", "line": "This is a validator notice, and the validator decides what each instance covers, so no share of the network can be read from it here.", "reach": { "affected": null, "basis": "none", "basis_label": null, "reason": "validator_notice", "share": null, "total": null, "total_source": null }, "ridership": { "annual_rider_trips": null, "ntd_id": null, "reason": "outside_ridership_scope" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "ca_cimd", "tier": null } }, "count": 4, "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, "rank": 3, "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 path or point riders to the wrong boarding location." } ], "validator_version": "8.0.1" }