Weather Applications and Products Enabled Through Vehicle Infrastructure Integration (VII)

Acronyms

ABL - Atmospheric Boundary Layer
ABS - Anti-lock Braking System
AASHTO - American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials
ASOS - Automated Surface Observing System
ATEC - Army Test and Evaluation Command
AWOS - Automated Weather Observing System
CASA - Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere
DOD - Department of Defense
DOT - Department of Transportation
DSRC - Dedicated Short Range Communications
DSS - Decision Support System
EPA - Environmental Protection Agency
FHWA - Federal Highway Administration
FL - Fuzzy Logic
FOT - Field Operations Test
GB - Gigabyte
GPS - Global Positioning System
GMT - Greenwich Mean Time
HAR - Highway Advisory Radio
HRLDAS - High-Resolution Land Data Assimilation System
ITS - Intelligent Transportation Systems
MB - Megabyte
Mbit - Megabit 
MDSS - Maintenance Decision Support System
MMW - Millimeter-Wave
MoWL - Mobile Wireless Laboratory
NAP - Network Access Points
NAS - National Academy of Science
NCAR - National Center for Atmospheric Research
NEXRAD - Next Generation Weather Radar
NRC - National Research Council
NWS - National Weather Service
OBE - On-board Equipment
OBU - On-board Unit
OEM - Original Equipment Manufacturer
RSE - Road Side Equipment
RSU - Road Side Unit
RTFDDA - Real-Time Four Dimensional Data Assimilation System
RWIS - Road Weather Information System
SDN - Service Delivery Nodes
TB - Terabyte
TOC - Traffic Operations Center
UMTRI - University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute
USDOT - United States Department of Transportation
VII - Vehicle Infrastructure Integration
VIIC - VII Consortium
WDT - Weather Data Translator
VMS - Variable Message Signs
WSR-88D - Weather Surveillance Radar - 1988 Doppler
Z - Zulu - Equivalent to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)