A Statewide Mobility Information Management System (MIMS) for Rural Alabama

Rural Public Transit Operators are entering an era when they must become more than transit providers; they must become mobility managers. But, to think in a narrowly-defined range such that mobility management would be limited to one-county or even a ten-county area would be as short-sighted as a policy that would ignore public transportation as an integral part of the transportation infrastructure. Mobility management must be a statewide effort. The heart of this effort would be an information system that contained the elements necessary to manage a statewide trip database using public and private transportation resources; A "Mobility Information Management System" (MIMS). The goal of this research was to take the previously developed methodology for development of the MIMS system and deploy a statewide version of the system.