Highway Performance Monitoring System Field Manual

Appendix A. Acronyms

AADT	Annual Average Daily Traffic
AADTT	Annual Average Daily Truck Traffic
AASHTO	American Association of State Highway Transportation Officials
AC	Asphalt-Concrete
ASR	Alkali Silica Reactivity
ASTM	American Society of Testing and Materials
ATR	Automated Traffic Recorder
AVC	Automatic Vehicle Classification
CAA	Clean Air Act
CCS	Continuous Count Station
CFR	Code of Federal Regulations
Col	Collector
COP	Community of Practice
CRCP	Continuously Reinforced Concrete Pavement
CSV	Character Separated Value
CU	Combination-unit
C&P	Conditions & Performance
DOT	Department of Transportation
DVMT	Daily Vehicle-Miles of Travel
EPA	Environmental Protection Agency
ESRI	Environmental Systems Research Institute
ETL	Express Toll Lane
FC	Functional Classification
FE	Full Extent
FE + R	Full Extent including Ramps
FHWA	Federal Highway Administration
FIPS	Federal Information Processing Standards
GIS	Geographic Information System
GML	Geography Markup Language
GPRA	Government Performance and Results Act
HERS	Highway Economic Requirements System
HCM	Highway Capacity Manual
HMA	Hot Mix Asphalt
HOT	High Occupancy Toll
HOV	High Occupancy Vehicle
HPMS	Highway Performance Monitoring System
Int	Interstate
IRI	International Roughness Index
ITS	Intelligent Transportation Systems
JPCP	Jointed Plain Concrete Pavement
JRCP	Jointed Reinforced Concrete Pavement
Loc	Local
LRS	Linear Referencing System
LTPP	Long Term Pavement Performance
MA	Minor Arterial
MaC	Major Collector
MiC	Minor Collector
MPO	Metropolitan Planning Organization
MRI	Mean Roughness Index
NAAQS	National Ambient Air Quality Standards
NAD	North American Datum
NBI	National Bridge Inventory
NHS	National Highway System
NN	National Freight Network
OFE	Other Freeways and Expressways
OGC	Open Geospatial Consortium
OHPI	Office of Highway Policy Information
OMB	Office of Management & Budget
OPA	Other Principal Arterial
PAS	Principal Arterial System
PCC	Portland Cement Concrete
PCS	Portable Count Station
PK	Primary Key
PMS	Pavement Management System
PSR	Present Serviceability Rating
QA/QC	Quality Assurance/Quality Control
SHA	State Highway Agency/Administration
SHRP	Strategic Highway Research Program
SP	Sample Panel
SPR	State Planning and Research
STIP	State Transportation Improvement Plan
SU	Single-unit
STRAHNET	Strategic Highway Network
TEA-21	Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century
TMG	Traffic Monitoring Guide
TOPS	Table of Potential Samples
UA	Urban/Urbanized Area
UK	Unique Key
UPACS	User Profile Access Control System
U.S.C.	United States Code
VMT	Vehicle Miles of Travel
VPI	Vertical Point of Intersection
WBT	Well Known Binary
WDS	Weighted Design Speed
WIM	Weigh-in-Motion
WKT	Well Known Text

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