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 |
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 |
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PennDOT | Pennsylvania Department of Transportation |
PK | Parker-Kalon |
PMS | Project management system |
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 |