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A field survey can start with the busiest stops.", "owner": "Likely your team", "points": 25.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "811 of 811 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": 940, "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": "940 of 940 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_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": 52.5, "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": 11, "instances_by_severity": { "ERROR": 0, "INFO": 8, "WARNING": 3625 }, "validator_version": "8.0.1" }, "findings": [ { "code": "equal_shape_distance_same_coordinates", "count": 3134, "effort": "Usually one export setting.", "fix": "Turn on shape cleanup in your export tool, or drop the repeated points from shapes.txt.", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 8.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "Some route lines list the same point twice in a row.", "why": "Repeated points don't hurt riders, but they can skew distance math and hint at a shaky export." }, { "code": "leading_or_trailing_whitespaces", "count": 181, "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": 8.0, "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": "stop_without_stop_time", "count": 154, "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": 8.0, "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": 62, "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": "fast_travel_between_consecutive_stops", "count": 46, "effort": "A few minutes per flagged trip.", "fix": "Check the flagged stop times for transposed minutes.", "owner": "", "points": 6.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "Some scheduled trips move faster between stops than a bus can.", "why": "Usually a typo'd stop time; riders get arrival times no bus can meet." }, { "code": "missing_recommended_field", "count": 22, "effort": "A field at a time; not urgent.", "fix": "Review the flagged fields and fill in the ones your riders would use.", "owner": "", "points": 6.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "Some files leave out fields that GTFS asks for but does not require.", "why": "Recommended fields like agency_phone or stop descriptions make the feed more useful to riders and trip planners." }, { "code": "route_long_name_contains_short_name", "count": 22, "effort": "One field per flagged route.", "fix": "Drop the short name from route_long_name and keep the long name descriptive, like 'Downtown via 5th Ave'.", "owner": "", "points": 6.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "Some route long names repeat the route's short name inside them.", "why": "Apps show both names together, so riders see the number twice, like '5 5 Downtown'." }, { "code": "fast_travel_between_far_stops", "count": 2, "effort": "Varies.", "fix": "Review the rule documentation for 'fast_travel_between_far_stops' at https://gtfs-validator.mobilitydata.org/rules.html and check the flagged rows in your feed.", "owner": "", "points": 4.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "Fast travel between far stops (flagged by the MobilityData validator).", "why": "See the linked rule for what this affects." }, { "code": "missing_recommended_file", "count": 1, "effort": "One small file, set once in export settings.", "fix": "Add feed_info.txt with publisher name, URL, language, and feed_start_date/feed_end_date.", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 4.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "A file GTFS asks for (usually feed_info.txt) is missing.", "why": "feed_info.txt tells apps who publishes the feed and when it expires; without it nobody is warned before data goes stale." }, { "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": 8, "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." } ], "name": "correctness", "score": 37.2, "status": "measured", "summary": "The MobilityData validator flagged 11 kinds of issue across 3633 instances (0 error, 3625 warning, 8 informational).", "weight": 0.35 }, "freshness": { "details": { "days_until_expiry": -306, "effective_expiry_date": "2025-09-29", "feed_end_date": null, "feed_start_date": null, "feed_version": null, "has_feed_info": false, "last_service_date": "2025-09-29", "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 306 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_missing_feed_info_dates", "count": 1, "effort": "Two fields, set once in export settings.", "fix": "Add feed_info.txt with feed_start_date and feed_end_date to your export.", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 15.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "feed_info.txt is missing its start/end dates (the file itself is absent)", "why": "Apps and this scorecard can't warn anyone before the feed goes stale without stated validity dates." } ], "name": "freshness", "score": 0.0, "status": "measured", "summary": "Service data ended 306 day(s) ago. Trip planners have likely already dropped this feed.", "weight": 0.2 }, "realtime": { "details": { "alerts_content": { "alerts": 12, "ended_over_30_days_ago": 0, "with_cause_and_effect": 7, "with_description": 12, "with_header_text": 12, "with_informed_entity": 12 }, "configured_kinds": [ "trip_updates", "vehicle_positions", "service_alerts" ], "coverage_pct": null, "drift": { "median_seconds": 300, "observations": 138, "on_time_share_pct": 50.7, "p90_abs_seconds": 600 }, "kinds_configured": 3, "kinds_reachable": 3, "reachable_kinds": [ "trip_updates", "vehicle_positions", "service_alerts" ], "rt_freshness": "fresh", "samples": 9, "scheduled_trips_in_window": 0, "worst_lag_seconds": 23 }, "findings": [], "name": "realtime", "score": 100.0, "status": "measured", "summary": "Sampled 9 times outside service hours: 3 of 3 configured feeds healthy; vehicle position plausibility was not measurable; predictions ran a median of 300s behind schedule.", "weight": 0.2 } }, "confidence": { "feed_age_days": 0, "fetch_source": "mirror", "level": "medium", "measured_categories": 4, "notes": [ "All four score categories were measured this run.", "Realtime was sampled in one bounded window of 9 snapshots.", "The agency's own feed URL was unreachable, so the Mobility Database's hosted mirror copy was scored instead." ], "rt_windows": 1, "total_categories": 4 }, "conformance": { "awarded": false, "criteria": [ { "detail": "Passes validation with no errors.", "key": "valid", "met": true }, { "detail": "Service data expired 306 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 is close to the conformance mark. Service data expired 306 days ago. States wheelchair access on 0% of stops and 0% of trips; the mark needs 90% of each." }, "feed": { "license_note": "License: https://www.valleyregionaltransit.org/about-us/resources/", "reachable": true, "sha256": "854f59759f18395e1304fc57e6bef0cfced68f994860d82589a6454a0eb5a39b", "size_bytes": 423699, "static_url": "https://www.valleyregionaltransit.org/GTFS/vrt_transit1.zip" }, "fetch": { "final_url": "https://storage.googleapis.com/storage/v1/b/mdb-latest/o/us-idaho-valleyride-gtfs-142.zip?alt=media", "max_attempts": 1, "origin_error": "HTTPError", "reader_archive_profile": "raw-v1", "source": "mirror", "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": [ -116.69639, 43.54503, -116.11825, 43.69704 ], "lat": 43.6119, "lon": -116.26151, "stop_count": 811 }, "mode_profile": { "ferry_only": false, "graded": false, "has_ferry": false, "is_multimodal": false, "measured": true, "modes": [ { "key": "bus", "label": "Bus", "route_count": 22, "trip_count": 940, "trip_share_pct": 100.0 } ], "primary_mode": "bus", "primary_mode_label": "Bus", "route_count": 22, "trip_count": 940 }, "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 expired 306 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 306 days ago, so FTA would find the link out of date." }, "overall": { "grade": "F", "margin_to_lower_band": 46.2, "margin_to_next_band": 13.8, "score": 46.2 }, "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 (5, 9, 16, 28, 42).", "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": 800, "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": "800 stop name(s) use abbreviations or symbols a screen reader may mispronounce, with no spoken form set (\"12th & Iowa NEC\", \"12th & Iowa SWC\", \"12th & Lake Lowell NWC\", 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": 811, "findings": [ { "code": "scorecard_orphan_stops", "count": 154, "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": "154 of 811 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": 154, "single_stop_trips": 0, "trips_total": 940 }, "route_map": { "drawn_route_count": 22, "has_shapes": true, "path": "data/artifacts/valley-regional-transit/geometry.geojson", "route_count": 22, "routes": [ { "color": "FFD22B", "color_name": "yellow", "has_shape": true, "id": "1 - Harris Ranch via Parkcenter", "label": "1", "long": "1 - Harris Ranch via Parkcenter", "short": "1", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "FFB062", "color_name": "yellow", "has_shape": true, "id": "10 - Hill Road", "label": "10", "long": "10 - Hill Road", "short": "10", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "B5BD00", "color_name": "yellow", "has_shape": true, "id": "12 - Maple Grove", "label": "12", "long": "12 - Maple Grove", "short": "12", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "9A5626", "color_name": "brown", "has_shape": true, "id": "16 - VA/Hyde Park Loop", "label": "16", "long": "16 - VA/Hyde Park Loop", "short": "16", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "00B1D3", "color_name": "teal", "has_shape": true, "id": "17 - Warm Springs", "label": "17", "long": "17 - Warm Springs", "short": "17", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "6F6DC6", "color_name": "purple", "has_shape": true, "id": "2 - Broadway", "label": "2", "long": "2 - Broadway", "short": "2", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "684966", "color_name": "gray", "has_shape": true, "id": "28 - Cole/Victory", "label": "28", "long": "28 - Cole/Victory", "short": "28", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "009337", "color_name": "green", "has_shape": true, "id": "29 - Overland", "label": "29", "long": "29 - Overland", "short": "29", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "FF7F25", "color_name": "orange", "has_shape": true, "id": "3 - Vista", "label": "3", "long": "3 - Vista", "short": "3", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "F8971D", "color_name": "orange", "has_shape": true, "id": "30", "label": "30", "long": "30 - Pine", "short": "30", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "3DC9E1", "color_name": "teal", "has_shape": true, "id": "4 - Roosevelt", "label": "4", "long": "4 - Roosevelt", "short": "4", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "AC856C", "color_name": "gray", "has_shape": true, "id": "40 - Nampa/Meridian Express", "label": "40", "long": "40 - Nampa/Meridian Express", "short": "40", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "505759", "color_name": "green", "has_shape": true, "id": "42 - Happy Day to Towne Square Mall", "label": "42", "long": "42 - Happy Day to Towne Square Mall", "short": "42", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "97D700", "color_name": "yellow", "has_shape": true, "id": "43 - Caldwell Express", "label": "43", "long": "43 - Caldwell Express", "short": "43", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "009098", "color_name": "teal", "has_shape": true, "id": "45 - BSU Express", "label": "45", "long": "45 - Boise State Express", "short": "45", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "7E3A42", "color_name": "brown", "has_shape": true, "id": "5 - Emerald", "label": "5", "long": "5 - Emerald", "short": "5", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "3484D4", "color_name": "teal", "has_shape": true, "id": "6 - Orchard", "label": "6", "long": "6 - Orchard", "short": "6", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "EA4AAD", "color_name": "pink", "has_shape": true, "id": "7A - Fairview Ustick", "label": "7A", "long": "7A - Fairview Ustick", "short": "7A", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "EA4AAD", "color_name": "pink", "has_shape": true, "id": "7B - Fairview - Towne Square Mall", "label": "7B", "long": "7B - Fairview - Towne Square Mall", "short": "7B", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "00A0AA", "color_name": "teal", "has_shape": true, "id": "8 - Five Mile", "label": "8", "long": "8 - Five Mile", "short": "8", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "00A0AA", "color_name": "teal", "has_shape": true, "id": "8x - Five Mile Chinden", "label": "8x", "long": "8x - Five Mile Chinden", "short": "8x", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "001489", "color_name": "blue", "has_shape": true, "id": "9 - State Street", "label": "9", "long": "9 - State Street", "short": "9", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" } ], "stop_count": 811, "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 940 trips have a shape in shapes.txt.", "status": "ready", "total_trips": 940, "trips_with_shape": 940 }, "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 306 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_boarding_unknown", "count": 811, "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": 2, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "811 of 811 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": 940, "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": 3, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "940 of 940 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." } ], "validator_version": "8.0.1" }