{ "agency": { "id": "williamsburg-area-transit-authority-wata", "name": "Williamsburg Area Transit Authority (WATA)", "subdivision_code": "US-VA", "subdivision_name": "Virginia" }, "categories": { "completeness": { "details": { "accessibility": { "measures": "presence_not_usability", "score": 0.2, "stops_marked_accessible_pct": 0.3, "stops_marked_not_accessible_pct": 0.0, "stops_stated_pct": 0.3, "trips_stated_pct": 0.0 }, "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": 0.1, "wheelchair_trips": 0.0 }, "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": true }, "has_fares": true, "headsign_applicable_trips": 1005, "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": 326, "translations": { "feed_lang": "en", "has_translations": false, "languages": [], "translated_tables": [], "translation_count": 0 }, "trips": 1005, "unmeasured_components": [], "wheelchair_accessible_pct": 0.0, "wheelchair_boarding_pct": 0.3, "wheelchair_marked_accessible_pct": 0.3, "wheelchair_marked_not_accessible_pct": 0.0 }, "findings": [ { "code": "scorecard_wheelchair_boarding_unknown", "consequence": { "absences": [ "This feed carries no National Transit Database ID, so annual rider-trips are not known for it.", "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_wheelchair_boarding_unknown", "line": "Fixing this covers 325 of 326 stops, nearly all of them.", "reach": { "affected": 325, "basis": "stops", "basis_label": "stops", "reason": "", "share": 0.9969, "total": 326, "total_source": "geo.stop_count" }, "ridership": { "annual_rider_trips": null, "ntd_id": null, "reason": "no_ntd_id" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "us_acs", "tier": null } }, "count": 325, "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": 24.9, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "325 of 326 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", "consequence": { "absences": [ "This feed carries no National Transit Database ID, so annual rider-trips are not known for it.", "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_wheelchair_accessible_unknown", "line": "Fixing this covers all 1,005 trips in the feed.", "reach": { "affected": 1005, "basis": "trips", "basis_label": "trips", "reason": "", "share": 1.0, "total": 1005, "total_source": "routability.trips_total" }, "ridership": { "annual_rider_trips": null, "ntd_id": null, "reason": "no_ntd_id" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "us_acs", "tier": null } }, "count": 1005, "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": "1005 of 1005 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_flex_no_booking_rules", "consequence": { "absences": [ "This feed carries no National Transit Database ID, so annual rider-trips are not known for it.", "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_flex_no_booking_rules", "line": "What this one counts is not stops, routes, or trips, so there is no network share.", "reach": { "affected": null, "basis": "none", "basis_label": null, "reason": "not_network_countable", "share": null, "total": null, "total_source": null }, "ridership": { "annual_rider_trips": null, "ntd_id": null, "reason": "no_ntd_id" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "us_acs", "tier": null } }, "count": 1, "effort": "A small file; one rule often covers the whole service.", "fix": "Add booking_rules.txt saying how far ahead and how to book (phone, app, or web).", "owner": "", "points": 0.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "This feed offers flexible service that riders book ahead, but it has no booking_rules.txt.", "why": "Riders can see the service area but not how or when to book a trip. Without that, they can't use the service." } ], "name": "completeness", "score": 60.1, "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": 12, "instances_by_severity": { "ERROR": 17, "INFO": 54, "WARNING": 75 }, "validator_version": "8.0.1" }, "findings": [ { "code": "start_and_end_range_out_of_order", "consequence": { "absences": [ "This feed carries no National Transit Database ID, so annual rider-trips are not known for it.", "This record does not store transit need. The agency page and its reports add it from the need overlays and name their date." ], "code": "start_and_end_range_out_of_order", "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": "no_ntd_id" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "us_acs", "tier": null } }, "count": 15, "effort": "Varies.", "fix": "Review the rule documentation for 'start_and_end_range_out_of_order' at https://gtfs-validator.mobilitydata.org/rules.html and check the flagged rows in your feed.", "owner": "", "points": 18.0, "severity": "ERROR", "what": "Start and end range out of order (flagged by the MobilityData validator).", "why": "See the linked rule for what this affects." }, { "code": "missing_required_column", "consequence": { "absences": [ "This feed carries no National Transit Database ID, so annual rider-trips are not known for it.", "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_required_column", "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": "no_ntd_id" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "us_acs", "tier": null } }, "count": 2, "effort": "Often an export setting; ask your vendor if it recurs.", "fix": "Add the required column named in the finding to the flagged file.", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 12.0, "severity": "ERROR", "what": "A file is missing a column that GTFS requires.", "why": "Apps may reject the whole file, so riders could lose the affected routes or stops." }, { "code": "stop_without_stop_time", "consequence": { "absences": [ "This feed carries no National Transit Database ID, so annual rider-trips are not known for it.", "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_without_stop_time", "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": "no_ntd_id" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "us_acs", "tier": null } }, "count": 34, "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": "fast_travel_between_consecutive_stops", "consequence": { "absences": [ "This feed carries no National Transit Database ID, so annual rider-trips are not known for it.", "This record does not store transit need. The agency page and its reports add it from the need overlays and name their date." ], "code": "fast_travel_between_consecutive_stops", "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": "no_ntd_id" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "us_acs", "tier": null } }, "count": 27, "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": "expired_calendar", "consequence": { "absences": [ "This feed carries no National Transit Database ID, so annual rider-trips are not known for it.", "This record does not store transit need. The agency page and its reports add it from the need overlays and name their date." ], "code": "expired_calendar", "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": "no_ntd_id" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "us_acs", "tier": null } }, "count": 9, "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": 6.0, "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": "route_long_name_contains_short_name", "consequence": { "absences": [ "This feed carries no National Transit Database ID, so annual rider-trips are not known for it.", "This record does not store transit need. The agency page and its reports add it from the need overlays and name their date." ], "code": "route_long_name_contains_short_name", "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": "no_ntd_id" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "us_acs", "tier": null } }, "count": 3, "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": 4.0, "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": "feed_expiration_date7_days", "consequence": { "absences": [ "This feed carries no National Transit Database ID, so annual rider-trips are not known for it.", "This record does not store transit need. The agency page and its reports add it from the need overlays and name their date." ], "code": "feed_expiration_date7_days", "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": "no_ntd_id" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "us_acs", "tier": null } }, "count": 1, "effort": "Usually a re-export from your scheduling software.", "fix": "Export and publish an updated GTFS feed that covers at least the next 30 days of service.", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 4.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "This feed's service calendar runs out within the next 7 days.", "why": "When the calendar ends, Google Maps and other trip planners drop your agency entirely. Riders see no service at all." }, { "code": "trip_coverage_not_active_for_next7_days", "consequence": { "absences": [ "This feed carries no National Transit Database ID, so annual rider-trips are not known for it.", "This record does not store transit need. The agency page and its reports add it from the need overlays and name their date." ], "code": "trip_coverage_not_active_for_next7_days", "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": "no_ntd_id" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "us_acs", "tier": null } }, "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", "consequence": { "absences": [ "This feed carries no National Transit Database ID, so annual rider-trips are not known for it.", "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_column", "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": "no_ntd_id" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "us_acs", "tier": null } }, "count": 37, "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." }, { "code": "unknown_file", "consequence": { "absences": [ "This feed carries no National Transit Database ID, so annual rider-trips are not known for it.", "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": "no_ntd_id" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "us_acs", "tier": null } }, "count": 9, "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": 0.8, "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." }, { "code": "service_window_outside_feed_period", "consequence": { "absences": [ "This feed carries no National Transit Database ID, so annual rider-trips are not known for it.", "This record does not store transit need. The agency page and its reports add it from the need overlays and name their date." ], "code": "service_window_outside_feed_period", "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": "no_ntd_id" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "us_acs", "tier": null } }, "count": 7, "effort": "Two fields in feed_info.txt, or one export setting.", "fix": "Widen feed_start_date and feed_end_date to cover all service dates, or fix the dates that fall outside.", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 0.8, "severity": "INFO", "what": "Some service dates fall outside the date window set in feed_info.txt.", "why": "feed_info.txt should span every day your service runs, so apps know when the data applies." }, { "code": "big_gap_in_service", "consequence": { "absences": [ "This feed carries no National Transit Database ID, so annual rider-trips are not known for it.", "This record does not store transit need. The agency page and its reports add it from the need overlays and name their date." ], "code": "big_gap_in_service", "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": "no_ntd_id" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "us_acs", "tier": null } }, "count": 1, "effort": "A review of your calendar dates.", "fix": "Check whether the gap is real, like a seasonal break; if not, add the missing dates to the calendar.", "owner": "", "points": 0.5, "severity": "INFO", "what": "The feed has a stretch of two weeks or more with no service running.", "why": "A long gap can mean dates were left out of the calendar. Apps then show no trips on those days." } ], "name": "correctness", "score": 37.2, "status": "measured", "summary": "The MobilityData validator flagged 12 kinds of issue across 146 instances (17 error, 75 warning, 54 informational).", "weight": 0.35 }, "freshness": { "details": { "days_until_expiry": -1195, "effective_expiry_date": "2023-06-30", "expiry_limited_by": "feed_end_date", "feed_end_date": "2023-06-30", "feed_start_date": "2022-11-13", "feed_version": "UTC: 14-Nov-2022 02:00", "has_feed_info": true, "last_service_date": "2023-07-01", "seasonal_boundary": false, "service_horizon_review_years": 10, "service_horizon_status": "within_review_threshold", "service_type": "fixed" }, "findings": [ { "code": "scorecard_feed_end_date_before_calendar", "consequence": { "absences": [ "This feed carries no National Transit Database ID, so annual rider-trips are not known for it.", "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_feed_end_date_before_calendar", "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": "no_ntd_id" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "us_acs", "tier": null } }, "count": 1, "effort": "One field in feed_info.txt, often an export setting.", "fix": "Correct feed_end_date in feed_info.txt. Set it to 2023-07-01, the last day in your calendar, or to the last day your schedule is reliable.", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 100.0, "severity": "ERROR", "what": "feed_info.txt says this feed ends on 2023-06-30. Your service calendar runs to 2023-07-01.", "why": "The GTFS standard tells apps to trust a feed only up to its end date. So apps may stop showing your service on the earlier date, even though the calendar goes on." } ], "name": "freshness", "score": 0.0, "status": "measured", "summary": "Your feed_info end date, 2023-06-30, is earlier than your service calendar, which runs to 2023-07-01. The feed is read as ending on that earlier date, 1195 day(s) ago.", "weight": 0.2 }, "realtime": { "name": "realtime", "status": "not_yet_measured", "summary": "This agency publishes realtime, but the feed needs an access key we don't have 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": "2 validator errors to resolve.", "key": "valid", "met": false }, { "detail": "Service data expired 1195 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 does not meet the conformance requirements yet. Here is what the mark needs: 2 validator errors to resolve. Service data expired 1195 days ago. 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": "a9365377b297759f5d6eeed67837a5818a3ccfddb4a665cfe2199e075f2c777d", "size_bytes": 364229, "source_provenance": "unverified", "static_url": "http://www.gowata.org/DocumentCenter/View/500" }, "fetch": { "final_url": "http://www.gowata.org/DocumentCenter/View/500/Static-GTFS?bidId=", "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": "2026-10-02T00:00:00+00:00", "geo": { "bbox": [ -76.82154, 37.12041, -76.456, 37.41068 ], "lat": 37.27762, "lon": -76.72388, "stop_count": 326 }, "mode_profile": { "ferry_only": false, "graded": false, "has_ferry": false, "is_multimodal": false, "measured": true, "modes": [ { "key": "bus", "label": "Bus", "route_count": 12, "trip_count": 1005, "trip_share_pct": 100.0 } ], "primary_mode": "bus", "primary_mode_label": "Bus", "route_count": 12, "trip_count": 1005 }, "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": "2 validator errors to resolve.", "key": "valid", "status": "at_risk" }, { "detail": "Service data expired 1195 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. 2 validator errors to resolve. Service data expired 1195 days ago, so FTA would find the link out of date." }, "overall": { "grade": "F", "margin_to_lower_band": 35.1, "margin_to_next_band": 24.9, "score": 35.1 }, "recommendations": [ { "category": "flex", "code": "scorecard_flex_completeness_no_booking_rules", "count": 1, "effort": "A small file; one rule often covers the whole service.", "fix": "Add booking_rules.txt with how far ahead and how to reserve (phone, app, or web).", "owner": "", "points": 0.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "Flex zones are published but no booking_rules.txt is present.", "why": "Riders can see the service area but not how to book, so they can't complete a trip." }, { "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 (1, 2, 12, 12A, 3, and more).", "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": 262, "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": "262 stop name(s) use abbreviations or symbols a screen reader may mispronounce, with no spoken form set (\"Battery Blvd at Riverside Hospital\", \"Bypass Rd. at Days Inn\", \"Jamestown Rd at CVS\", and more).", "why": "A screen reader speaks the raw name. 'Main St & 2nd Ave' can come out as 'Main saint', or lose the ampersand." } ], "recompute": { "as_of": "2026-10-07", "feed_fetched_date": "2026-10-02", "kind": "freshness" }, "routability": { "boardable_stops": 326, "findings": [ { "code": "scorecard_orphan_stops", "count": 34, "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": "34 of 326 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": 34, "single_stop_trips": 0, "trips_total": 1005 }, "route_map": { "drawn_route_count": 12, "has_shapes": true, "path": "data/artifacts/williamsburg-area-transit-authority-wata/geometry.geojson", "route_count": 12, "routes": [ { "color": "9E9E9F", "color_name": "gray", "has_shape": true, "id": "15218", "label": "1", "long": "Lee Hall", "short": "1", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "382F8E", "color_name": "blue", "has_shape": true, "id": "15221", "label": "11", "long": "Lackey", "short": "11", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "592D5F", "color_name": "brown", "has_shape": true, "id": "15222", "label": "9", "long": "Toano", "short": "9", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "5BBA47", "color_name": "gray", "has_shape": true, "id": "15223", "label": "8", "long": "W & M", "short": "8", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "BD915C", "color_name": "gray", "has_shape": true, "id": "15224", "label": "7", "long": "Mooretown", "short": "7", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "6E0E3A", "color_name": "brown", "has_shape": true, "id": "15225", "label": "6", "long": "Jamestown", "short": "6", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "813D97", "color_name": "purple", "has_shape": true, "id": "15227", "label": "4", "long": "Longhill", "short": "4", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "F6871F", "color_name": "orange", "has_shape": true, "id": "15228", "label": "3", "long": "Merrimac", "short": "3", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "0098CD", "color_name": "teal", "has_shape": true, "id": "15229", "label": "2", "long": "Richmond", "short": "2", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "0D8A67", "color_name": "green", "has_shape": true, "id": "74823", "label": "12", "long": "12 - Ironbound", "short": "12", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "0D8A67", "color_name": "green", "has_shape": true, "id": "74824", "label": "12A", "long": "12A - Ironbound", "short": "12A", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "C32032", "color_name": "red", "has_shape": true, "id": "74825", "label": "5", "long": "5 - Monticello", "short": "5", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" } ], "stop_count": 326, "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" }, "shapes_readiness": { "detail": "All 1005 trips have a shape in shapes.txt.", "status": "ready", "total_trips": 1005, "trips_with_shape": 1005 }, "snapshot_date": "2026-10-07", "top_fixes": [ { "code": "scorecard_feed_end_date_before_calendar", "consequence": { "absences": [ "This feed carries no National Transit Database ID, so annual rider-trips are not known for it.", "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_feed_end_date_before_calendar", "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": "no_ntd_id" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "us_acs", "tier": null } }, "count": 1, "effort": "One field in feed_info.txt, often an export setting.", "fix": "Correct feed_end_date in feed_info.txt. Set it to 2023-07-01, the last day in your calendar, or to the last day your schedule is reliable.", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 100.0, "rank": 1, "severity": "ERROR", "what": "feed_info.txt says this feed ends on 2023-06-30. Your service calendar runs to 2023-07-01.", "why": "The GTFS standard tells apps to trust a feed only up to its end date. So apps may stop showing your service on the earlier date, even though the calendar goes on." }, { "code": "start_and_end_range_out_of_order", "consequence": { "absences": [ "This feed carries no National Transit Database ID, so annual rider-trips are not known for it.", "This record does not store transit need. The agency page and its reports add it from the need overlays and name their date." ], "code": "start_and_end_range_out_of_order", "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": "no_ntd_id" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "us_acs", "tier": null } }, "count": 15, "effort": "Varies.", "fix": "Review the rule documentation for 'start_and_end_range_out_of_order' at https://gtfs-validator.mobilitydata.org/rules.html and check the flagged rows in your feed.", "owner": "", "points": 18.0, "rank": 2, "severity": "ERROR", "what": "Start and end range out of order (flagged by the MobilityData validator).", "why": "See the linked rule for what this affects." }, { "code": "missing_required_column", "consequence": { "absences": [ "This feed carries no National Transit Database ID, so annual rider-trips are not known for it.", "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_required_column", "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": "no_ntd_id" }, "served_area_need": { "reason": "not_joined_here", "scale": "us_acs", "tier": null } }, "count": 2, "effort": "Often an export setting; ask your vendor if it recurs.", "fix": "Add the required column named in the finding to the flagged file.", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 12.0, "rank": 3, "severity": "ERROR", "what": "A file is missing a column that GTFS requires.", "why": "Apps may reject the whole file, so riders could lose the affected routes or stops." } ], "validator_version": "8.0.1" }