Iowa agencies
19 feed scorecards · 82.1 out of 100 average · 2 need attention
The average and grade distribution use 17 canonical, non-duplicate feed scorecards under one producer contract: rubric 1.4, scoring profile gtfs-scorecard-1.4, MobilityData gtfs-validator 8.0.1, reader archive profile raw-v1, and measured categories Correctness, Freshness, Rider experience. Every member remains listed below.
Grade distribution
- B 12
- C 5
Expired feeds 1 of 19
These feeds have run out and dropped from trip planners. Start the program's outreach here.
Expired over a year ago 1
Expired more than a year ago. The listed URL is usually still canonical, so the source stopped refreshing. Confirm the agency still runs before reading the grade as a current failure.
- F grade
Citibus expired about 1 year ago
Realtime health 1 monitored
All 1 feed record here with a realtime endpoint configured have been sampled by the monitor. Least reliable first. Reachability, how far behind each feed's own timestamp runs, and how much of the scheduled service appears in it. Sampled on a schedule rather than continuously, and it changes no grade.
Across the monitored feeds: median uptime 100.0%, median lag 53s.
- Des Moines Area Regional Transit Authority (DART)answered 100.0% of 200 checks · 53s behind
shapes.txt coverage 18 of 19
The FTA National Transit Database requires shapes.txt covering every trip (Reduced, Rural, and Tribal reporters by Report Year 2026; Full Reporters already). These agencies are not fully covered yet. Check each one against its own NTD filing.
- B grade
CyRide Needs attention
Fixes shared across this group
The same fix shows up in more than one agency's top 3 here, often the same export setting or scheduling-software step. Worth raising once with every agency it touches.
Set wheelchair_boarding to 1 (accessible) or 2 (not accessible) for every stop. A field survey can start with the busiest stops. · Read the fix guide for scorecard_wheelchair_boarding_unknown
Set wheelchair_accessible on every trip. If every vehicle is accessible, this may be one default; otherwise use the value for each trip. · Read the fix guide for scorecard_wheelchair_accessible_unknown
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. · Read the fix guide for scorecard_no_fare_data
Add the destination, direction, or 'via' label riders actually see to trip_headsign. Do not copy the route name. If the label changes during the trip, use stop_headsign. · Read the fix guide for scorecard_missing_headsigns
Feed scorecards: attention first, then alphabetical
- F grade
Citibus Service data has expired
- D grade
Des Moines Area Regional Transit Authority (DART) Grade slipped from C to D
- B grade
- B grade
- C grade
- B grade
- B grade
- B grade
- C grade
- B grade
- B grade
- C grade
- C grade
- B grade
- B grade
- B grade
- B grade
- C grade
- B grade
Board reports for this group
Every agency listed above has a free, printable board one-pager on its own page, and always will. A program that needs all of them at once can buy them as one archive, branded with its own name and logo and refreshed monthly if it wants. Prices are on that page. A purchase buys no influence over grades, methodology, or which agencies are listed. The archive contains the same numbers published here.