Transportation

Terminology

Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990: Glossary of Terms: Defines terms related to transportation and air quality. See also Plain English Guide To The Clean Air Act.
Commercial Vehicle Information Systems and Networks Glossary: Defines terms and acronyms used in current Commercial Vehicle Information Systems and Networks (CVISN) documents and used in activities relevant to development of a national Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) system architecture for commercial vehicle operations (CVO).

Dictionary: This dictionary from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics contains definitions of thousands of terms and acronyms related to transportation. The dictionary is composed of Transportation Expressions and Transportation Acronym Guide, both of which were published in 1996.

Glossary of Air Pollution Terms: Useful for understanding documents that discuss air quality and transportation.
Glossary of Commuter Choice Terms: Defines key terms used in discussing a federal subsidies program designed to stimulate use of vanpooling and the like.
Glossary of Transit Terms: Definitions of terms used in the field of public transit.
International Pedestrian Lexicon: Definitions of terms related to walking. Includes French terms, English terms from the UK and North America, and Spanish terms from Spain and Latin America.
Maritime Glossary: Maritime terms and the language of the sea.
Online Transportation Demand Management (TDM) Encyclopedia: The world’s most comprehensive information resource concerning innovative transportation management strategies. It describes dozens of Transportation Demand Management (TDM) strategies and contains information on TDM planning, evaluation and implementation. It has thousands of hyperlinks that provide instant access to more detailed information, including case studies and reference documents.
The Quintessential Maritime Glossary: Maritime is a word that refers to all things of the sea. This glossary is provided as a service to those interested in all things maritime by the Action Boat and Yacht Donation Service Corporation and provides an opportunity to understand the world of maritime travel, commerce, and typical terminology of sailors throughout the world.

Transportation Glossary: A good, general glossary of terms encountered in the transportation literature, published by the Mineta Transportation Institute.

Transportation Research Thesaurus: The Transportation Research Thesaurus (TRT) was initially developed under NCHRP Project 20-32 to provide a tool to improve the indexing and retrieval of transportation information. The thesaurus covers all modes and aspects of transportation. A primary use will be to provide a common and consistent language between producers and users of the Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) Database. The thesaurus is currently also used as an indexing tool for federal, state and university collections. The TRT Web site allows users to access terminology through Alphabetical, Hierarchical, Keyword In Context or Keyword Out of Context displays. The full display shows relationship of terms, including SN (Scope Notes), UF (used for terms), BT (Broader Term), NT (Narrower Term), and RT (Related Term).

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