Welcome to the website of Alabama's Rural Transit Assistance Program. The program is funded through Alabama Department of Transportation and Federal Transit Administration of the US Department of Transportation.
This website is maintained by the Alabama Technology Transfer Center at Auburn University, AL, with the assistance of the Bureau of Transportation Planning and Modal Programs in the Alabama Department of Transportation at Montgomery, AL.
The pages of this website contain information about the activities of the Alabama's Rural Transit Assistance Program in the following subject areas:
To gain more information on a subject area, click on the title.
From this homepage, users can click on the link below to enter a Mobility Information Management System (MIMS) developed for rural transportation in the state of Alabama. This system provides a method for maintaining and accessing transportation data. The system has been designed by the University of Alabama in Huntsville for the Alabama RTAP Program. It uses a map interface that can be easily understood by both transportation agencies and the general public. For the agencies, it provides the opportunity to maintain up-to-date data. For the general public, it offers to access information on transportation related services offered by the Alabama RTAP service providers. Click here to enter the MIMS site
Also from this website, viewers can transfer to the Alabama RTAP file transfer protocol (ftp) subdirectory.
From the ftp subdirectory, users can view and download document files from the list and then return to this homepage.
To return from the subdirectory the The Bureau of Transportation Planning and Modal Programs adminsters the following programs of the Federal Transit Adminsitration.
An FTA fact sheet is available on the each program which clickable in the list below:
Section 5307
Urbanized Area Formula Grants Section 5309
Capital Investment Grants “New Starts” Section 5310
Formula Program for Elderly Persons and Persons with Disabilities Section 5311
Other Than Urbanized Area Formula Program
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