Glossary of Planning Terms/Acronyms

Terms and acronyms commonly used in Transportation Planning are defined below.

A thru C | Cv thru F | G thru J | K thru M | N thru R | S thru Z

A thru C
• AADT – Average Annual Daily Traffic
• AASHTO – American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials
• APE Study – Advance Preliminary Engineering Study
• ATR - Automatic Traffic Recorder
• BTS – Bureau of Transportation Statistics (Under USDOT, www.bts.gov)
• CADD – Computer-Aided Design and Drafting
• CAM – Computer-Aided Mapping
• CANSYS – Control Section Analysis System (Kansas State Highway System Database)
• Control Section – homogeneous segments of highway used in CANSYS
• CMAQ – Congestion Mitigation/Air Quality (Federal Funding category)
• CMS – Construction Management System
• CPMS – Comprehensive Program Management System
• CPS – Child Passenger Safety
• CTD – Coordinated Transit District (Districts used in Public Transit)