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| Publication Number: FHWA-HRT-15-049 Date: April 2015 |
Publication Number: FHWA-HRT-15-049 Date: April 2015 |
 © American Concrete Pavement Association, Inc. www.acpa.org. |
| AADT | average annual daily traffic | |
| AASHO | American Association of State Highway Officials | |
| AASHTO | American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials | |
| AC | asphalt concrete | |
| ADEP | AIMS Data Entry Portal | |
| AIMS | Ancillary Information Management System | |
| AMRL | AASHTO Materials Reference Laboratory | |
| APT | accelerated pavement testing | |
| ASCE | American Society of Civil Engineers | |
| ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Exchange | |
| ASTM | ASTM International, formerly American Society for Testing and Materials | |
| ATB | asphalt-treated base | |
| ATDL | automated temperature data logger | |
| AVC | automatic vehicle classification | |
| AWS | automated weather stations | |
| BAA | Broad Agency Announcement | |
| CCC | Canadian Climate Center | |
| CDOT | Colorado Department of Transportation | |
| COPES | Concrete Pavement Evaluation System | |
| CRCP | continuously reinforced concrete pavement | |
| CRREL | Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory | |
| C-SHRP | Canadian Strategic Highway Research Program | |
| CSI | Campbell Scientific, Inc. | |
| CSSC | Customer Support Service Center | |
| CTB | cement-treated base | |
| CTDB | Central Traffic Database | |
| CTDOT | Connecticut Department of Transportation | |
| CTE | coefficient of thermal expansion | |
| DAOFR | Data Analysis/Operations Feedback Report | |
| DAWG | Data Analysis Working Group | |
| DCP | dynamic cone penetrometer | |
| DIM | Distress Identification Manual | |
| DiVA | Distress Viewer and Analysis | |
| DLR | dynamic load response | |
| DMI | Distance Measuring Instrument | |
| DOT | Department of Transportation | |
| ESAL | equivalent single-axle load | |
| ETG | expert task group | |
| FALCON | Focus Area Leadership and Coordination | |
| FHWA | Federal Highway Administration | |
| FWD | falling weight deflectometer | |
| FWDUG | FWD User Group | |
| GOE | General Operating Expenses | |
| GPR | ground penetrating radar | |
| GPS | General Pavement Study | |
| GPSr | Global Positioning System receiver | |
| HERS | Highway Economics Requirement System | |
| HMA | hot-mix asphalt | |
| HPMS | Highway Performance Monitoring System | |
| ICC | International Cybernetics Corporation | |
| IDIQ | indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity | |
| IMS | Information Management System | |
| IPRD | Innovative Pavement Research and Deployment Program | |
| IRI | International Roughness Index | |
| ISO | International Organization for Standardization | |
| ISTEA | Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 | |
| JCP | jointed concrete pavement | |
| JPCP | jointed plain concrete pavement | |
| JRCP | jointed reinforced concrete pavement | |
| KDOT | Kansas Department of Transportation | |
| LCOM | LTPP Committee | |
| LDEP | LTPP Data Entry Portal | |
| LSPEC | LTPP Special Activities Committee | |
| LTAS | LTPP Traffic Analysis Software | |
| LTBP | Long-Term Bridge Program | |
| LTM | Long-Term Pavement Monitoring | |
| LTPP | Long-Term Pavement Performance Program | |
| LTPP-PLUG | LTPP Pavement Loading User Guide | |
| MAP-21 | Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act | |
| MEPDG | Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide | |
| MERRA | Modern Era–Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications | |
| MPD | mean profile depth | |
| MRC | Measurement Research Corporation | |
| MRL | Materials Reference Library | |
| MS-DOS® | Microsoft Disk Operating System | |
| NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | |
| NCDC | National Climatic Data Center | |
| NCHRP | National Cooperative Highway Research Program | |
| NDT | nondestructive deflection testing | |
| NHI | National Highway Institute | |
| NIMS | National Information Management System | |
| NOAA | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | |
| NRC | National Research Council | |
| NYSDOT | New York State Department of Transportation | |
| OPR | Operational Problem Report | |
| OWL | Optimal WIM Site Locator software | |
| PADIAS | PAvement DIstress Analysis System | |
| PCC | Portland cement concrete | |
| PennDOT | Pennsylvania Department of Transportation | |
| PG | performance grade | |
| PHT | Performance Health Track | |
| PLUG | Pavement Loading User Guide | |
| PPAC | Pavement Performance Advisory Committee | |
| PPCP | precast prestressed concrete pavement | |
| PPDB | Pavement Performance Database | |
| QC/QA | quality control/quality assurance | |
| RABA | Revenue Aligned Budget Authority | |
| RAC | rubberized asphalt concrete | |
| RAP | recycled asphalt pavement | |
| RCOC | regional coordination office contractor | |
| RDBMS | relational database management system | |
| RIMS | Regional Information Management System | |
| RSC | regional support contractor | |
| RTAC | Roads and Transportation Association of Canada | |
| SAFETEA-LU | Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users | |
| SCOR | AASHTO’s Standing Committee on Research | |
| SDR | Standard Data Release | |
| SHRP | Strategic Highway Research Program | |
| SI | International System of Units | |
| SMERP | Supplemental Maintenance Effectiveness Research Program | |
| SMP | Seasonal Monitoring Program | |
| SOM | Subcommittee on Materials | |
| SPR | Software Performance Report | |
| SPS | Specific Pavement Study | |
| STAA | Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982 | |
| STRS | Strategic Transportation Research Study | |
| STURAA | Surface Transportation and Uniform Relocation Assistance Act of 1987 | |
| TAC | technical assistance contract/contractor | |
| TEA-21 | Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century | |
| TDR | time domain reflectometer | |
| TFHRC | Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center | |
| TRB | Transportation Research Board | |
| TSSC | technical services support contract/contractor | |
| TxDOT | Texas Department of Transportaion | |
| VMS® | Virtual Memory System | |
| WAAS | Wide Area Augmentation System | |
| WIM | weigh-in-motion | |
| WMA | warm-mix asphalt |
