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Making the Business Case for Traffic Incident Management

List of Abbreviations

  • Advanced Traffic Management System (ATMS)
  • American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO)
  • Arizona Department of Public Safety (AZDPS)
  • Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT)
  • Benefit-Cost Ratio (BCR)
  • Capability Maturity Framework (CMF)
  • Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV)
  • Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT)
  • Computer-aided Dispatch (CAD)
  • Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality (CMAQ)
  • Coordinated Highways Action Response Team (CHART)
  • Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC)
  • Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV)
  • Department of Transportation (DOT)
  • Dynamic Message Signs (DMS)
  • Emergency Medical Services (EMS)
  • Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
  • Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
  • Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA)
  • Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST)
  • Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT)
  • Freeway Incident Response Safety Team (FIRST)
  • Freeway Service Patrol (FSP)
  • Freeway Service Patrol Evaluation (FSPE)
  • Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT)
  • Highway Emergency Response Operators (HERO)
  • Incident Clearance Time (ICT)
  • Incident Management Assistance Patrols (IMAP)
  • Incident Response (IR)
  • Information Technology (IT)
  • Integrated Corridor Management (ICM)
  • Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)
  • ITS Deployment Analysis System (IDAS)
  • Long Range Plan (LRP)
  • Los Angeles Service Authority for Freeway Emergencies (LA SAFE)
  • Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT)
  • Maryland State Highway Administration (SHA)
  • Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)
  • Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO)
  • Metropolitan Transportation Commission Service Authority for Freeways and Expressways (MTC SAFE)
  • Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT)
  • Motor Vehicle Emission Simulator (MOVES)
  • National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP)
  • National Highway Performance Program (NHPP)
  • National Highway System (NHS)
  • National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
  • National Household Travel Survey (NHTS)
  • National Institute of Justice (NIJ)
  • Net Present Value (NPV)
  • New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT)
  • Nitric Oxides/Nitrogen Dioxides (NOx)
  • Operations and Maintenance (O&M)
  • Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT)
  • Particulate Matter (PM)
  • Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT)
  • Rapid Incident Scene Clearance (RISC)
  • Regional Emergency Action Coordination Team (REACT)
  • Roadway Clearance Time (RCT)
  • Rutgers Incident Management System (RIMS)
  • Statewide Transportation Improvement Program (STIP)
  • Strategic Highway Research Program 2 (SHRP2)
  • Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP)
  • Sulfur Oxides (SOx)
  • Surface Transportation Program (STP)
  • Traffic Incident Management Benefit-Cost (TIM-BC)
  • Traffic and Criminal Software (TraCS)
  • Traffic Incident Management (TIM)
  • Traffic Incident Management Enhancement (TIME)
  • Traffic Incident Management Performance Measurement (TIM PM)
  • Traffic Incident Management Self-Assessment (TIM SA)
  • Traffic Operations Center (TOC)
  • Traffic Records Coordinating Committee (TRCC)
  • Transportation Improvement Program (TIP)
  • Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER)
  • Transportation Management Center (TMC)
  • Transportation Research Board (TRB)
  • Transportation System Management and Operations (TSM&O)
  • U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT)
  • University of Washington (UW)
  • Value Pricing Pilot Program (VPPP)
  • Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT)
  • Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I)
  • Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V)
  • Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT)
  • Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs)
  • Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT)
  • Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT)
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