As many residents have encountered a bewildering flood of new abbreviations and terminology, we have create this short list of commonly used abbreviations to help decipher these unfamiliar terms:
- AA – Alternatives Analysis
- AREMA – American Railway Engineering and Maintenance of Way Association
- BMT – Busway / Mixed Traffic
- BOCC – Board of County Commissioners
- BRT – Bus Rapid Transit
- CAMPO – Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization
- CHT – Chapel Hill Transit
- CRT – Commuter Rail Transit
- CSX – CSX Transportation
- CWI – Collision With Individual
- DATA – Durham Area Transit Authority
- DCHC MPO – Durham, Chapel Hill, Carrboro Metropolitan Planning Organization
- DEIS – Draft Environmental Impact Statement
- DOT – Department of Transportation
- EIS – Environmental Impact Study
- EPA – US Environmental Protection Agency
- FAR – Flood Area Ratio
- FE – Final Engineering
- FEIS – Final Environmental Impact Statement
- FTA – Federal Transportation Administration
- FTE – Full Time Equivalent
- GAO – Government Accountability Office
- HBU – Home Based Universities
- HBW – Home Based Work
- HOV – High Occupancy Vehicle
- HRT – Heavy Rail Transit
- ITS – Intelligent Transportation System
- LPA – Locally Preferred Alternative
- LRT – Light Rail Transit
- LRTP – Long Range Transportation Plan
- MIS – Major Investment Study
- MPO – Metropolitan Planning Organization
- MUTCD – Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices
- NCDOT – North Carolina Department of Transportation
- NCRR – North Carolina Railroad
- NEPA – National Environmental Policy Act
- NHB – Non-Home Based
- NTD – National Transit Database
- NWI – National Wetlands Inventory
- O&M – Operating & Maintenance
- OCS – Overhead Catenary System
- PAX – Passenger Hours Traveled
- PE – Preliminary Engineering
- PFO – Palustrine Forested
- PPHPD – peak hour per direction
- RTP – Research Triangle Park
- SOV – Single Occupancy Vehicle
- STAC – Special Transit Advisory Commission
- TA – Transitional Analysis
- TAC – Transportation Advisory Committee
- TAC – Technical Advisory Committee
- TAZ – Traffic Analysis Zones
- TCC – Technical Coordinating Committee
- TDM – Transportation Demand Management
- TIGER – Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery
- TOD – Transit Oriented Development
- TRTP – Triangle Regional Transit Program
- TSM – Transportation System Management Alternative
- USACE – US Army Corp of Engineers
- USGS – US Geological Survey
- UT – Unnamed Tributary
- UZA – Urbanized Areas
- V/C – Volume Capacity Ratio
- VHT – Vehicle Hours Traveled
- VMT – Vehicle Miles Traveled