8.1.2       Acronyms

AAA    American Automobile Association

AASHTO        American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials

AIAA  American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

ANSI   American National Standards Institute

ASTM American Society for Testing and Materials

ATIS   Advanced Transportation Information System

ATMS Advanced Transportation Management System

C2C     Center to Center

C2F     Center To Field

CAIV  Cost As an Independent Variable

CCTV Closed-Circuit Television

CDR    Critical Design Review

CE       Concept Exploration

CEA    Consumer Electronics Association

CFR    Code of Federal Regulations

CG      Control Gate

CI        Configuration Item

CM      Configuration Management

CMM   Capability Maturity Model

CMMI Capabilities Maturity Model Integrated

CMS    Changeable Message Sign

COCOMO      Constructive Cost Model

ConOps           Concept of Operations

CORBA          Common Object Request Broker Architecture

COTS  Commercial Off-The-Shelf

CR       Change Request

DATEX          Data Exchange

DBMS Database Management System

DDR   Detail Design Review

DOT    Department of Transportation

ECP    Engineering Change Proposal

EDI     Electronic Data Interchange

EIA     Electronic Industries Association

FAR    Federal Acquisition Regulation

FCA    Functional Configuration Audit

FHWA            Federal Highway Administration

FPA    Function Point Analysis

FSR    Feasibility Study Report

FTP    File Transfer Protocol

GUI     Graphical User Interface

IAW    In Accordance With

HLD    High-Level Design

ICD     Interface Control Documentation

ICWG Interface Control Working Group

IEEE  Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

IKIWISI          I Know It When I See It

INCOSE         International Council of Systems Engineering [circa 1994]

IPT      Integrated Product Teams

ISO     International Organization for Standardization

IT        Information Technology

ITE     Institute of Transportation Engineers

ITIP    Interregional Transportation Improvement Plan

ITS      Intelligent Transportation System[s]

IV&V  Independent Verification and Validation

KPP    Key Performance Parameter

MOE   Measure of Effectiveness

MOP   Measure of Performance

MPO   Metropolitan Planning Organization

NA      Not Applicable

NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NCOSE          National Council on Systems Engineering [now INCOSE]

NDI     Non-Developmental Item

NEMA            National Electrical Manufacturers Association

NIST   National Institute of Standards and Technology

NTCIP            National Transportation Communications for ITS Protocol

O&M   Operations & Maintenance

ORB    Object Request Brokers [programming middleware]

PD       Product Development

PDR    Preliminary Design Review

PM      Program Manager

PMI     Project Management Institute

PPP     Point-to-Point Protocol

QFD   Quality Function Deployment

RFP    Request for Proposal

RFQ    Request for Quotation

RTIP   Regional Transportation Improvement Plan

ROW   Right Of Way

SAE    Society of Automotive Engineers

SDR    System Design Review

SE       Systems Engineering

SEI      Software Engineering Institute [Carnegie Mellon University]

SEMP Systems Engineering Management Plan

SERF  Systems Engineering Review Form

SETA  Systems Engineering Technical Assistance

SI        Software Item

SOW   Statement of Work

SRR    System Requirements Review

STIP   Statewide Transportation Improvement Plan

SW      Software

T & E  Test & Evaluation

TIP      Transportation Improvement Plan

TMC    Traffic Management Center

TR       Technical Review

TRR    Test Readiness Review

UML   Unified Modeling Language

WAN   Wide Area Network

WBS    Work Breakdown Structure

XML    Extensible Mark-up Language