{ "agency": { "id": "williamsburg-area-transit-authority-2649", "name": "Williamsburg Area Transit Authority", "subdivision_code": "US-VA", "subdivision_name": "Virginia" }, "categories": { "completeness": { "details": { "accessibility": { "measures": "presence_not_usability", "score": 0.0, "stops_marked_accessible_pct": 0.0, "stops_marked_not_accessible_pct": 0.0, "stops_stated_pct": 0.0, "trips_stated_pct": 0.0 }, "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": 0.0, "wheelchair_trips": 0.0 }, "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": 1840, "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": 614, "translations": { "feed_lang": null, "has_translations": false, "languages": [], "translated_tables": [], "translation_count": 0 }, "trips": 1840, "unmeasured_components": [], "wheelchair_accessible_pct": 0.0, "wheelchair_boarding_pct": 0.0, "wheelchair_marked_accessible_pct": 0.0, "wheelchair_marked_not_accessible_pct": 0.0 }, "findings": [ { "code": "scorecard_wheelchair_boarding_unknown", "count": 614, "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, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "614 of 614 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": 1840, "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": "1840 of 1840 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_fare_data", "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", "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." }, { "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 to link entrances, platforms, and elevators. Give each one a level.", "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": 37.5, "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 not published.", "weight": 0.25 }, "correctness": { "details": { "distinct_codes": 6, "instances_by_severity": { "ERROR": 0, "INFO": 1, "WARNING": 40 }, "validator_version": "8.0.1" }, "findings": [ { "code": "equal_shape_distance_diff_coordinates_distance_below_threshold", "count": 31, "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_without_stop_time", "count": 4, "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": 4.0, "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": "unused_shape", "count": 3, "effort": "One setting.", "fix": "Turn on 'remove unused shapes' (or the like) in your export tool.", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 4.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "The feed contains route shapes no trip uses.", "why": "Harmless to riders, but it bloats the feed and suggests stale export data." }, { "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": 1, "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." } ], "name": "correctness", "score": 77.5, "status": "measured", "summary": "The MobilityData validator flagged 6 kinds of issue across 41 instances (0 error, 40 warning, 1 informational).", "weight": 0.35 }, "freshness": { "details": { "days_until_expiry": 31, "effective_expiry_date": "2026-10-14", "feed_end_date": null, "feed_start_date": null, "feed_version": null, "has_feed_info": false, "last_service_date": "2026-10-14", "seasonal_boundary": false, "service_horizon_review_years": 10, "service_horizon_status": "within_review_threshold", "service_type": "fixed" }, "findings": [ { "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": 36.7, "status": "measured", "summary": "Service data covers the next 31 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 31 days.", "key": "current", "met": true }, { "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": "One requirement remains for this feed to earn the conformance mark. States wheelchair access on 0% of stops and 0% of trips; the mark needs 90% of each.", "version": 2 }, "feed": { "license_note": "No stated data license in the Mobility Database; verify before publishing.", "reachable": true, "sha256": "a038a9ad006dec5ec2bc2c4ccef8891cd8f38cced26983aae89f2677ad4065d5", "size_bytes": 299360, "source_provenance": "unverified", "static_url": "https://gtfs.wata.cadavl.com/WATA/GTFS/GTFS_WATA.zip" }, "fetch": { "final_url": "https://gtfs.wata.cadavl.com/WATA/GTFS/GTFS_WATA.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": "2026-09-13T00:00:00+00:00", "geo": { "bbox": [ -76.82154, 37.19292, -76.51867, 37.4091 ], "lat": 37.27982, "lon": -76.72651, "stop_count": 614 }, "mode_profile": { "ferry_only": false, "graded": false, "has_ferry": false, "is_multimodal": false, "measured": true, "modes": [ { "key": "bus", "label": "Bus", "route_count": 13, "trip_count": 1840, "trip_share_pct": 100.0 } ], "primary_mode": "bus", "primary_mode_label": "Bus", "route_count": 13, "trip_count": 1840 }, "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": [ "1567" ], "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 31 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": "F", "margin_to_lower_band": 54.8, "margin_to_next_band": 5.2, "score": 54.8 }, "recommendations": [ { "category": "accessibility", "code": "scorecard_route_color_low_contrast", "count": 4, "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": "4 route badge(s) pair a color and text color below the WCAG 4.5:1 contrast bar (12A, 2, 7, 12).", "why": "Riders with low vision struggle to read a low-contrast route badge. It also washes out on a phone screen in sunlight at the stop." }, { "category": "accessibility", "code": "scorecard_stop_name_needs_tts", "count": 472, "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": "472 stop name(s) use abbreviations or symbols a screen reader may mispronounce, with no spoken form set (\"Wake Dr\", \"Richmond Rd at Food Lion\", \"Richmond Rd at Richmond Hall\", and more).", "why": "A screen reader speaks the raw name. 'Main St & 2nd Ave' can come out as 'Main saint', or lose 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 if a step-free route exists inside the station. Trip planners can't route anyone through it." } ], "routability": { "boardable_stops": 307, "findings": [ { "code": "scorecard_orphan_stops", "count": 4, "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": "4 of 307 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": 4, "single_stop_trips": 0, "trips_total": 1840 }, "route_map": { "drawn_route_count": 12, "has_shapes": true, "path": "data/artifacts/williamsburg-area-transit-authority-2649/geometry.geojson", "route_count": 13, "routes": [ { "color": "848486", "color_name": "gray", "has_shape": true, "id": "1", "label": "1", "long": "Lee Hall", "short": "1", "text_color": "000000", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "382F8E", "color_name": "blue", "has_shape": true, "id": "11", "label": "11", "long": "Lackey", "short": "11", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "0D8A67", "color_name": "green", "has_shape": true, "id": "12", "label": "12", "long": "Ironbound", "short": "12", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "0D8A67", "color_name": "green", "has_shape": false, "id": "12A", "label": "12A", "long": "Ironbound", "short": "12A", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "7B5E1A", "color_name": "brown", "has_shape": true, "id": "15", "label": "15", "long": "Colonial", "short": "15", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "0098CD", "color_name": "teal", "has_shape": true, "id": "2", "label": "2", "long": "Richmond", "short": "2", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "D96E09", "color_name": "orange", "has_shape": true, "id": "3", "label": "3", "long": "Merrimac", "short": "3", "text_color": "000000", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "813D97", "color_name": "purple", "has_shape": true, "id": "4", "label": "4", "long": "Longhill", "short": "4", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "C32032", "color_name": "red", "has_shape": true, "id": "5", "label": "5", "long": "Monticello", "short": "5", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "6E0E3A", "color_name": "brown", "has_shape": true, "id": "6", "label": "6", "long": "Jamestown", "short": "6", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "A47842", "color_name": "brown", "has_shape": true, "id": "7", "label": "7", "long": "Mooretown", "short": "7", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "51A83F", "color_name": "green", "has_shape": true, "id": "8", "label": "8", "long": "W&M", "short": "8", "text_color": "000000", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "592D5F", "color_name": "brown", "has_shape": true, "id": "9", "label": "9", "long": "Toano", "short": "9", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" } ], "stop_count": 614, "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 1840 trips have a shape in shapes.txt.", "status": "ready", "total_trips": 1840, "trips_with_shape": 1840 }, "snapshot_date": "2026-09-13", "top_fixes": [ { "code": "scorecard_wheelchair_boarding_unknown", "count": 614, "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": 1, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "614 of 614 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": 1840, "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": "1840 of 1840 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_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, "rank": 3, "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." } ], "validator_version": "8.0.1" }