NTCIP Library: Glossary of Acronyms

The following collection is a list of acronyms relevant the the NTCIP. You may submit your suggestions for inclusion to the NTCIP Web Coordinator.

AASHTO
American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials.
ANSI
American National Standards Institute.
ASC
Actuated Signal Controller
ASCII
American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
ASN.1
Abstract Syntax Notation One.
ATIS
Advanced Traveler Information System.
ATMS
Advanced Traffic Management System.
AVI
Automatic Vehicle Identification.
AVL
Automatic Vehicle Location.
BPS
Bits per second.
CCITT
Consultative Committee for International Telegraphy and Telephony, now know as ITU-T.
CCTV
Closed-circuit television.
CLNS
Connectionless-mode network service.
CLS
Closed-loop system.
CONS
Connection-oriented network service.
CORBA
Common Object Request Broker Architecture
CRC
Cyclical redundancy check.
DATEX-ASN
DATa EXchange - Abstract Syntax Notation One Protocol
DCE
Data Circuit Terminating Equipment.
DLSAP
Data Link Service Access Point.
DLSDU
Data Link Service Data Unit.
DMS
Dynamic Message Sign
DTE
Data Terminal Equipment.
DTR
Data Terminal Ready.
EBCDIC
Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code.
EIA
Electronic Industries Associates.
ESS
Environmental Sensor Station
FCS
Frame Check Sequence (see Cyclic Redundancy Check).
FHWA
Federal Highway Administration.
FSK
Frequency Shift Keying.
FTP
File Transfer Protocol.
GO
Global Objects
HAR
Highway Advisory Radio.
HDLC
High-Level Data Link Control.
IAB
Internet Activities Board.
IANA
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority.
IEC
International Electro-technical Commission.
IETF
Internet Engineering Task Force.
IP
Internet Protocol.
IPI
Initial Protocol Identifier.
ISO
International Organization for Standardization.
ISTEA
Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991.
ITE
Institute of Transportation Engineers.
ITIIS
International Traveler Information Interchange Standard.
ITS
Intelligent Transportation Systems.
ITU-T
International Telecommunications Union, Telecommunications Sector.
LAN
Local Area Network.
LCP
Link Control Protocol
LLC
Logical Link Control.
LSB
Least Significant Bit.
MIB
Management Information Base.
MSB
Most Significant Bit.
NANA
NTCIP Assigned Numbers Authority
NEMA
National Electrical Manufacturers Association.
NSDU
Network Service Data Unit.
NTCIP
National Transportation Communication for ITS Protocol.
NVT
Network Virtual Terminal.
OER
Octet Encoding Rules
OET
Outreach, Education, and Training
OMG
Object Management Group
OSI
Open Systems Interconnection.
PDU
Protocol Data Unit.
PER
Packed Encoding Rules.
PICS
Protocol Implementation Conformance Statement.
PMPP
Point-to-Multi Point Protocol.
PPP
Point-to-Point Protocol.
pro forma
(Latin) Provided in advance so as to specify form or to describe items.
RFC
Request for Comments.
RM
Ramp Meter
RM-OSI
Reference Model OSI.
SAP
Service Access Point.
SCP
Signal Control and Prioritization
SDU
Service Data Unit.
SMI
Structure of Management Information.
SNMP
Simple Network Management Protocol.
SNMPv2
Simple Network Management Protocol version 2.
SSM
Signal System Master
STMF
Simple Transportation Management Framework
STMF
Simple Transportation Management Framework.
STMI
Structure and Identification of Transportation Management Information.
STMP
Simple Transportation Management Protocol.
TCIP
Transit Communications Interface Protocol.
TCP
Transmission Control Protocol.
TCP/IP
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol.
TEA-21
1998 Transportation Efficiency Act for the 21st Century
TIA
Telecommunications Industries Association.
TLV
Tag, Length, Value.
TMC
Transportation Management Center.
TMIB
Transportation MIB.
TMS
Transportation Management Systems.
TOC
Transportation Operation Center.
TSS
Transportation Sensor System
UCC
Unbalanced Connectionless Class.
UDP
User Datagram Protocol.
UI
Unnumbered Information (Frame).
VMS
Variable Message Sign
WAN
Wide Area Network.


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