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7.2        Acronyms

AASHTO              American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials

AIAA      American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

ANSI      American National Standards Institute

ARC-IT  Architecture Reference for Cooperative and Intelligent Transportation

ASTM    American Society for Testing and Materials

C2C        Center to Center

C2F        Center To Field

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

ConOps Concept of Operations

CR          Change Request

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

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

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

ITS         Intelligent Transportation System[s]

IV&V     Independent Verification and Validation

MOP     Measure of Progress

MPO     Metropolitan Planning Organization

NA         Not Applicable

NASA    National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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

PD          Product Development

PDR       Preliminary Design Review

PM         Program Manager

PMI       Project Management Institute

PPP        Point-to-Point Protocol

QFD       Quality Function Deployment

RAD-IT  Regional Architecture Development for Intelligent Transportation

RFI         Request for Information

RFP        Request for Proposal

RFQ       Request for Quotation

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

SET-IT    Systems Engineering Tool for Intelligent Transportation

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 Program

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

 

 

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