Data Practices List of Abbreviations
- Date: February 7, 2022
List of Abbreviations
AASHTO: American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials ACS American Community Survey
AFC: Automatic Fare Collection
APC: Automatic Passenger Counters
API: Application Programming Interface
AVL: Automatic Vehicle Location
BI: Business Intelligence
BRATS: Baldwin Regional Area Transit System
BT: Blacksburg Transit
CAD: Computer-Aided Dispatch
CASD: Computer-Aided Scheduling and Dispatch
CATA: Crawford Area Transportation Authority
CSV: Comma-separated values
CTAA: Community Transportation Association of America
CTPP: Census Transportation Planning Products
CUTR: Center for Urban Transportation Research
DI: Disparate Impact
DB: Disproportionate Burden
DST: Decision Support Tools
DOT: Department of Transportation
EPTA: Eastern Panhandle Transit Authority
EPC: Electronic Passenger Counters
FTA: Federal Transit Administration
GEOID: Geographic entity code
GTFS: General Transit Feed Specification
GTFS-Flex: General Transit Feed Specification for Flexible Transit
GTFS-RT: General Transits Feed Specification–Real Time
GIS: Geographic Information Systems
GPS: Global Positioning System
GPX: Global Positioning System Exchange Format HVAC Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning
ID: Identification
iNTD: Integrated National Transit Database
IT: Information Technology
ITS: Intelligent Transportation Systems
IoT: Internet of Things
KML: Keyhole Markup Language (from Google)
LBS: Location-Based Services
LEHD: Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics
LODES: LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics
MaaS: Mobility-as-a-service
MARTA: Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority
MAP-21: Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act
MATS: Muskegon Area Transit System
MDBF: Mean Distance Between Failure
MOD: Mobility On-Demand
MPO: Metropolitan Planning Organization
MTD: Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District
N-CATT: National Center for Applied Transit Technology
NEMT: Non-Emergency Medical Transportation
NTD: National Transit Database
OD: Origin-Destination
OSM: OpenStreetMap
OTP: On-Time Performance
PAC-12: Pacific Coast Conference School
PAT: Pulaski Area Transit
PDF: Portable Document Format
PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor (programming language)
PMT: Passenger Miles Traveled
RFP: Request for Proposals
RPA: Regional Planning Agency
RTAP: Rural Transit Assistance Program
R.Y.D.E.: Reach Your Destination Easily
SEA: Service Equity Analysis
SGR: State of Good Repair
SMMPO: Southeastern Massachusetts
MPO SRTA: Southeastern Regional Transit Authority
STOPS: Simplified Trips-on-Project Software
TAM: Transit Asset Management
TAPT: Transit Asset Prioritization Tool
TBEST: Transit Boardings Estimation and Simulation Tool
TCaT: Tulare County Area Transit
TCRP: Transit Cooperative Research Program
TERM-Lite: Transit Economic Requirements Model Lite
TIGER: Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing
TMA: Transportation Management Association
TNC: Transportation Network Company
ULB: Useful Life Benchmark
VVTA: Victor Valley Transit Authority
WSU: Washington State University