Strategies to Address Utility Issues During Highway Construction (2024)

Chapter: ABBREVIATIONS, ACRONYMS, INITIALISMS, AND SYMBOLS

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ABBREVIATIONS, ACRONYMS, INITIALISMS, AND SYMBOLS

2D Two dimensions
3D Three dimensions
AFA Advance funding agreement
AGC Associated General Contractors
AI Artificial intelligence
ALDOT Alabama Department of Transportation
ANN Artificial neural network
API Application programming interface
APWA American Public Works Association
ADOT Arizona Department of Transportation
ARDOT Arkansas Department of Transportation
ARTBA American Road and Transportation Builders Association
ASCE American Society of Civil Engineers
BERT Bidirectional encoder representations from transformers
BIM Building information modeling
CAD Computer-aided design
Caltrans California Department of Transportation
CDOT Colorado Department of Transportation
CEI Construction engineering and inspection
CFR Code of Federal Regulations
CI Construction Institute
CM/GC Construction manager/general contractor
CMP Construction management plan
CTDOT Connecticut Department of Transportation
CTUC Combined Transportation and Utility Construction
DOD U.S. Department of Defense
DOT Department of transportation
DOT&PF Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities
DSC Different site condition
DSM Digital surface model
DTM Digital terrain model
DSS Decision support system
EMI Electromagnetic induction
FAA Federal Aviation Administration
FDOT Florida Department of Transportation
FN False negative
FP False positive
GAO General Accounting Office
GB Gigabyte
GCP Ground control point
GDOT Georgia Department of Transportation
GIS Geographic information system
GNSS Global navigation satellite system
GPR Ground penetrating radar
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GPS Global Positioning System
GPT Generative pre-trained transformer
GPU Graphics processing unit
GUIDE Geospatial Utility Infrastructure Data Exchange
HDPE High-density polyethylene
HMA Hot mix asphalt
IDOT Illinois Department of Transportation
I Interstate
IDSS Intelligent decision support system
INDOT Indiana Department of Transportation
IOWADOT Iowa Department of Transportation
ISO International Organization for Standardization
ITD Idaho Transportation Department
ITS Intelligent transportation system
KDOT Kansas Department of Transportation
kNN k-nearest neighbors
LiDAR Light detection and ranging
LLM Large language model
LPA Local public agency
MassDOT Massachusetts Department of Transportation
MDOT Michigan Department of Transportation
MnDOT Minnesota Department of Transportation
MOT Maintenance of traffic
MVS Multi-view stereo
NAD83 North American Datum of 1983
NAVD 88 North American Vertical Datum of 1988
NCTCOG North Central Council of Governments
NCDOT North Carolina Department of Transportation
NDAA National Defense Authorization Act
NDDOT North Dakota Department of Transportation
NGS National Geodetic Survey
NLP Natural language processing
NJDOT New Jersey Department of Transportation
NMDOT New Mexico Department of Transportation
NMSPCS83 New Mexico State Plane Coordinate System of 1983
NUR Non-utility-related
NURS Non-utility-related suspected
O&M Operations and maintenance
OrDOT Oregon Department of Transportation
OIG Office of Inspector General
PC Project cost increase
PD Project delivery delay
PDF Portable document format
PennDOT Pennsylvania Department of Transportation
PK Parker-Kalon
PMS Project management system
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PSA Project site activity
PS&E Plans, specifications, and estimate
PVC Polyvinyl chloride
QLA Quality level A
QLB Quality level B
QLC Quality level C
QLD Quality level D
RAM Random access memory
RCP Reinforced concrete pipe
ReLU Rectified linear unit
RFI Request for information
RFID Radio frequency identification
RGB Red, green, and blue
RTK Real-time kinematic
RVI Remote virtual inspection
SAULT Selection Assistant for Utility Locating Technologies
SCDOT South Carolina Department of Transportation
SCP Survey control point
SfM Structure-from-motion
SH State highway
SHRP2 Second Strategic Highway Research Program
SUDAS Statewide Urban Design and Specifications
SUE Subsurface utility engineering
SVM Support vector machine
TF-IDF Term frequency-inverse document frequency
TN True negative
TP True positive
TSPS Texas Society of Professional Surveyors
TxDOT Texas Department of Transportation
UAS Unmanned aircraft system
UCM Utility conflict management
UCP Utility construction plan
UD Utility relocation delay
UDOT Utah Department of Transportation
UESI Utility Engineering and Surveying Institute
UIA Utility impact analysis
UR Utility-related
URS Utility-related suspected
US United States
VDOT Virginia Department of Transportation
VTrans Vermont Agency of Transportation
WISCRS Wisconsin Coordinate Reference System
WisDOT Wisconsin Department of Transportation
WSDOT Washington State Department of Transportation
WVDOT West Virginia Department of Transportation
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