American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials

Average Daily Traffic

Automatic Equipment Identification. Tags attached to trailers and rail cars that are readable by MIVs

ArcGIS Server - platform for the GMAP application

American Planning Association

American Society of Civil Engineers

Advanced Traffic Management System

Bureau of Transportation Statistics

Programming Language C

Central Business District

Code of Federal Regulations

Container Handling Cooperative Program

Congestion Management Process

Commercial Motor Vehicle

Charging for the use of road space in reflection of the costs which are imposed on other users.

County Road

Center for Urban Transportation Research. One of several national transportation centers, CUTR is located within the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of South Florida.

Commercial Vehicle Information Systems and Networks

Decibels

The process of returning with an empty trailer or rail car after delivering a load.

Department of Homeland Security

Department of Transportation

The process of transferring goods locally from one means of transport to another. Example: Using trucks to dry cargo from a port to a rail facility across town.

Environmental Impact Assessment

Existing Land Use Map

Environmental Protection Agency

Electronic Toll Collection

Federal Aviation Administration

Fatal Accident Reporting System

Floridians for Better Transportation

Final Environmental Impact Statement

Forty-foot Equivalent Unit. Refers to capacity measurement of containerized freight. Equal to two TEUs. (See TEU below for definition). A FEU container measures 40'L x 8' W x 8.5 ' H.

Federal Highway Administration

Another term used for COFC that refers to containers transferred from ships at seaports (1995, Wegmann et al).

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

Finding of No Significant Impact

Federal Railroad Administration

See Intermodal Logistic Center

Florida Standard Urban Transportation Modeling Structure

Florida Transportation Commission

Free Trade Zone

Gross Domestic Product

Goods Movement Mapping Application

Global Positioning System

Highway Capacity Manual

High Occupancy Vehicle

Highway Trust Fund

Interstate Commerce Commission

Intermodal Logistics Center (a.k.a. Integrated Logistics Centers). ILCs are large facilities covering hundreds of acres that provides for the intermodal transfer of goods between modes that may include rail, trucking, air, and seaport in various combinations depending on location. ILC are best located near major highway corridors to make it easy to get the goods on and off the facility. In some cases other services are provided including fuel, driver services, hotel accommodations, food facilities, and security. Complimentary businesses are also collocated such as warehousing and distribution centers

A new method of loading and unloading roll on/off trailers from rail cars using 1200 foot-long continuous platform with a split ramp in the center and a power unit on each end. Can handle any combination of trailer length and train sets can move as many as 40 trailers at a time. The system is currently employed by CSX Railroad in Chicago and Detroit. (1999, Volpe Center)

Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991

Institute of Transportation Engineers

Intelligent Vehicle Highway System

Just-in-Time

Level of Service

Less than Truckload

Memorandum of Agreementk

Mile Post

Metropolitan Planning Organization. A local transportation planning organization found in each of the major metropolitan areas responsible for long-range transportation planning.

Metropolitan Transportation System. The "Metropolitan Transportation System as defined in ISTEA has a multimodal focus, an integration focus and a functional focus. As such, it reaches beyond the old road categories to look at principal arterials in the metropolitan areas, transit corridors, intermodal facilities such as trucking distribution centers, passenger terminals, ports, airports and railheads, as well as rail rights of way. The focus is on the integration of all the modes in the way that the user integrates modes in a trip into a functioning metropolitan system"(Dittmar, 1994).

Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices

National Ambient Air Quality Standards

North American Free Trade Agreement

National Cooperative Highway Research Program

National Highway Institutek

National Safety Council

National Transportation Safety Board

Another commonly used term for TOFC and/or COFC (1995, Wegmann et al).

Proof of Delivery

Physical Oceanographic Real-Time Systems. A Federal System for real-time tide and current information.

Positive Train Separation

Radio Frequency Identification

Record of Decision (EIS)

Railroad

Shipper's Export Declaration

Strategic Intermodal System

Single Occupant Vehicle

State Transportation Improvement Program

Surface Transportation Program

Third Party Logistics Provider. A specialist who provides a variety of transportation, warehousing, and logistics services to buyers and sellers.

Traffic Analysis Zone

Tampa Bay Regional Goods Movement Study

Transportation Concurrency Management Area

Transportation Demand Management

Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century.

Transportation Improvement Program

Transportation Management Area

Transportation Provider Advisory Group. Representatives from the Tampa Bay Region organized from for-hire trucking firms and companies with internal fleets, CSXT Railroad, and provider organizations including the American Trucking association (ATA) and the Florida Trucking Association (FTA).

Transportation Research Board

Transportation Security Administration

Texas Transportation Institute at Texas A& M University (National Congestion Statistics)

Uniform Freight Classification

Unified Planning Work Program

Volume-to-Capacity Ratio

Variable Message Sign