This readme.txt file was generated on 20240605 by Kwangho Baek.
Recommended citation for the data: Khani, A. 2024. Interviews on Contactless Payment for Western Minnesota Rural Transit.

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GENERAL INFORMATION
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1. Title of Dataset 
  Interviews on Contactless Payment for Western Minnesota Rural Transit

2. Author Information

  Principal Investigator Contact Information
        Name: Dr. Alireza Khani
           Institution: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
           Address: 500 Pillsbury Drive SE, Room 136, Minneapolis, MN 55455
           Email: akhani@umn.edu
	   ORCID: 0000-0002-3091-4415

3. Date published or finalized for release: 
  20240605

4. Date of data collection (single date, range, approximate date):
  20240201-20240229

5. Geographic location of data collection (where was data collected?):  
  Minnesota's Morrison County, Mille Lacs County, Stearns County, Benton County, Sherburne County, Big Stone County, Swift County, Lac qui Parle County, Chippewa County, Yellow Medicine County, Lincoln County, Lyon County, Redwood County, Pipestone County, Murray County, Cottonwood County, Rock County, Jackson County

6. Information about funding sources that supported the collection of the data: 
  Federal Transit Administration's Accelerating Innovative Mobility (AIM) Challenge Grants

7. Overview of the data (abstract): 
The interviews focused on transit users' experience during and after the implementation of contactless fare payment. The passenger interview focused on the attitude towards the contactless fare payment.

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SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION
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1. Licenses/restrictions placed on the data:
  Attribution 4.0 International
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

2. Links to publications that cite or use the data:
   DeBruin, H., Baek, K., Sok, S., Hardman, S., and Khani, A. 2024. "Western Minnesota Contactless Payment" Center for Transportation Studies research report
Note: after publication, report will be available in https://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/11299/241

3. Was data derived from another source?
   No

4. Terms of Use: Data Repository for the U of Minnesota (DRUM) By using these files, users agree to the Terms of Use. https://conservancy.umn.edu/pages/policies/#drum-terms-of-use


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DATA & FILE OVERVIEW
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1. File List
  A. Filename: UserInterviewsSummary.pdf       
     Short description: The summary of two users' interviews regarding the attitude toward transit contactless payment

2. Relationship between files:        
  NA

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METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION
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1. Description of methods used for collection/generation of data: 
  Several ways were utilized to recruit riders for an interview, including sending out recruitment forms with gift card compensation, recruitment emails, promotional posters, social media advisement, and a push notification through the Transit App.

2. Methods for processing the data:
  NA

3. Instrument- or software-specific information needed to interpret the data:
  NA

4. Standards and calibration information, if appropriate:
  NA

5. Environmental/experimental conditions:
  NA

6. Describe any quality-assurance procedures performed on the data:
  NA

7. People involved with sample collection, processing, analysis, and/or submission:
    1) Sample collection: Hannah DeBruin
    2) Processing: Hannah DeBruin
    3) Analysis: Alireza Khani, Hannah DeBruin
    4) Submission: Kwangho Baek


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DATA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION FOR: UserInterviews.pdf
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1. Number of variables:
  NA

2. Number of cases/rows: 
  2

3. Missing data codes:
  NA

4. Variable List
  NA