DOI: 10.21949/z23z-bb22
title: Advancing Rural Mobility Program: Stage 1 Implementation Report [supporting dataset]
title: Advancing Rural Mobility: Michigan Public Transit Open Data Standards Program (ARMP)

description: National Transportation Library (NTL) Curation Note: This dataset has been curated to CoreTrustSeal's curation level "A. Active Preservation". To find out more information on CoreTrustSeal's curation levels, please consult their "Curation & Preservation Levels" CoreTrustSeal Discussion Paper" (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11476980). NTL staff last accessed this dataset at its repository URL on 2025-06-13. If, in the future, you have trouble accessing this dataset, please email NTLDataCurator@dot.gov describing your problem. NTL staff will do its best to assist you at that time.

Data Management Plan Note: This dataset project has a Data Management Plan that was created in the DMPTool. A copy of the DMP was included in this data package, but can also be accessed on the DMPTool here: https://doi.org/10.48321/D1085A658b
description: This dataset contains transit data specification feeds for rural agencies that were involved in the Advancing Rural Mobility Project (ARMP) as well as supporting artifacts such as marketing materials, photos from publicity events, and survey results.

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