Writing about this data.

Claims the data supports

• "Agency X's published schedule data expired on [date], so trip planners like Google Maps stop showing its service." Expiry is read directly from the feed.
• "N of the M feeds this site tracks in [country or subdivision] have expired." Counts over the covered set, with the exact geographic scope named.
• "Agency X's feed does not say which stops are wheelchair accessible." A statement about published data, and usually a one-setting fix in the agency's software.
• "Across the feeds currently covered, [pct]% publish fare data." This is a claim about this site's corpus, not about all agencies in the world.

Claims it does not support

• "The worst transit agency in [country]." The scorecard covers a curated set of feeds, not every agency in any country; absence means not covered, never failing, and a position here is not a national rank.
• "Agency X's vehicles are inaccessible." The accessibility number measures whether the data is published, never whether a stop or vehicle is usable.
• "Agency X is out of compliance." Nothing here is an official determination; the readiness signals map data quality onto requirements, and the official checks belong to the agencies and their regulators.
• Grade differences as agency performance. A grade describes the published feed bytes under a disclosed scoring contract, not the agency's capacity or service quality. Public absolute rankings and individual peer percentiles are not published; direct comparisons appear only for like-for-like scorecards.

Story-ready data

Every number on this site is downloadable. Start with the coverage overview, then use the country and subdivision rows in the location API to state the denominator precisely. For a citable snapshot, use a dated dataset release rather than the live site, which can change after a completed scoring run. Methodology, rubric weights, and the validator version are all published: how to read a scorecard and the open dataset.

United States reporting context

U.S.-only reporting can also use the FTA NTD readiness view, Report Year 2026 shapes.txt explainer, state program pages, and the compatibility by-state API. These sources support claims about the covered U.S. feeds and should not be generalized to other countries.