AASHTO |
American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials |
CCTV |
Closed-circuit television |
Clarus |
An integrated surface transportation weather observing, forecasting, and data management sharing system that collects, evaluates, and disseminates environmental data gathered from a geographically diverse set of sensors |
Clarus Initiative |
Development of tools, models, and decision support that leverage the Clarus System, end-to-end processes spanning data gathering to road weather information products and services, and research activities that support creation of road weather information products and services |
cm |
centimeter |
CMML |
Canadian Meteorological Markup Language – a meteorological encoding mechanism based on XML, used to exchange data between Canadian Provinces and Territories and Environment Canada |
COO |
Concept of Operations |
CSV |
Comma Separated Value (file format) – a file type that stores tabular data |
DMS |
Dynamic Message Sign |
DNS |
Domain Name System |
DOT |
Department of Transportation |
DST |
Daylight Savings Time |
ESS |
Environmental Sensor Station |
FHWA |
Federal Highway Administration |
ftp |
File Transfer Protocol |
http |
Hyper Text Transfer Protocol – communication standard for transmitting and receiving documents and other types of data over the Internet |
https |
Secure Hyper Text Transfer Protocol |
IP |
Internet Protocol |
IR |
Infrared |
ITD |
Idaho Transportation Department |
ITS |
Intelligent Transportation System |
m |
meter |
MDOT |
Michigan DOT |
MDSS |
Maintenance Decision Support Systems |
NHDOT |
New Hampshire Department of Transportation |
NOAA |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
NPDES |
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System |
NTCIP |
National Transportation Communications for ITS Protocol |
NWS |
National Weather Service |
PSU |
Plymouth State University |
PTZ |
pan-tilt-zoom |
RFP |
Request for Proposal |
RPU |
Remote Processing Unit |
RWIDS |
Road-Weather Integrated Data System |
RWIS |
Road Weather Information System |
SICOP |
Snow and Ice Cooperative Program |
SSI |
Surface Systems, Inc. |
TRIO |
Tri-State Rural Advanced Traveler Information System |
URL |
Uniform Resource Locator – typically, an Internet address |
USDA |
United States Department of Agriculture |
UTC |
Universal Time Code – coordinated universal time; a high-precision atomic time standard whre all values are referenced to the Greenwich Meridian |
WMO |
World Meteorological Organization |
WX |
Weather |
XML |
eXtensible Markup Language – a flexible text markup language used to create standard information formats that share both the format and the information to enable the interchange of structured data |
