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List of Acronyms
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List of Acronyms
Many of the documents posted on this website use acronyms. This glossary is a partial list of common acronyms applying to a Rural Transit Planning Agency. To view a much longer list of transportation-planning related acronyms, view the Caltrans Office of Local Assistance list of acronyms.
| AB 69 | Legislation that created RTPAs |
| ADA | Americans with Disabilities Act |
| AIP | Airport Improvement Program |
| ATP | Active Transportation Program |
| BTA | Bicycle Transportation Account |
| CAAP |
California Aid to Airports Program |
| CAC | Citizens Advisory Committee |
| Caltrans | California Department of Transportation. This Department is primarily responsible for the planning, design, construction, maintenance, and operation of the State's transportation system. The Department also provides technical assistance to local and regional governments. |
| CBD | Central Business District |
| CDBG |
California Development Block Program |
| CEQA | California Environmental Quality Act: A state-mandated process in which the environmental effects associated with the implementation of a project are fully disclosed. |
| CLUP |
Comprehensive Land Use Plan |
| CMIA |
Corridor Mobility Improvement Account |
| CMP |
Congestion Management Plan |
| CO | Carbon Monoxide |
| COG |
Council of Governments |
| CTC |
California Transportation Commission, a decision-making
entity established by AB 402 of 1977 to advise and assist
the Secretary of Transportation and the legislature in
formulating and evaluating state policies and plans for
transportation programs. |
| CTSA |
Consolidated Transportation Services Agency |
| ECTPP |
Eastern California Transportation Planning Partnership |
| ESAAA | Eastern Sierra Area Agency for the Aging |
| ESTA |
Eastern Sierra Transit Authority |
| FAST Act | The Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act. This is similar to MAP-21. |
| FHWA |
Federal Highway Administration |
| FLAP | Federal Lands Access Program |
| FTA |
Federal Transit Administration |
| GIS |
Geographical Information System |
| I-## | Interstate ## |
| IMACA |
Inyo Mono Advocates for Community Action |
| IMAH |
Inyo Mono Association for the Handicapped |
| ITS | Intelligent Transportation System |
| LADWP | Los Angeles Department of Water and Power |
| LOS | Level of Service |
| LTC | Local Transportation Commission |
| LTF |
Local Transportation Fund |
| MAP-21 | Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century: this is the comprehensive federal transportation reauthorization that establishes federal transportation funding and programs and replaces SAFETEA-LU. MAP-21 restructures and consolidated much of the existing core of federal highway programs into six main areas. |
| NEPA | National Environmental Protection Act: Federal legislation which created an environmental review process, but pertains only to projects having federal involvement through financing, permitting, or Federal land ownership. |
| ORIP |
Caltrans Office of Regional and Interagency Planning |
| OWP |
Overall Work Program: Is adopted annually to identify and
program transportation planning tasks for the coming fiscal
year. |
| PEA |
Planning Emphasis Area |
| PM ## | Post Mile ## |
| PM10 | Particulate matter less than 10 microns in diameter |
| PMP | Pavement Management Program |
| Proposition 42 | California ballot measure passed in March 2002 which dedicated all sales tax on gasoline for transportation purposes to be divided as follows: 20% for city streets, 20% for county streets and roads, 20% for transit, and 40% for the STIP. |
| PS&E | Plans, Specifications, and Estimates |
| PSR |
Project Study Report |
| RCTF |
Rural Counties Task Force |
| RIP | Regional Improvement Program |
| RPA |
Regional Planning Assistance |
| RTIP | Regional Transportation Improvement Program: 75% of STIP funds. List of projects submitted to CTC by RTPAs for seven year horizon, updated every two years. |
| RTP | Regional Transportation Plan |
| RTPA |
Regional Transportation Planning Agency: State designated
agency responsible for preparation of the RTP and RTIP. |
| SAFETEA-LU |
Safe, Effective, Flexible, Efficient, Transportation, Equity
Act: A Legacy for Users: this is an abbreviation for the federal transportation
reauthorization that established funding and programs until
MAP-21 was adopted and will be enacted in 2012. SAFETEA-LU
followed the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century
(TEA-21). |
| SB 1 | The Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017, Senate Bill (SB) 1, provides the first significant, stable, and on-going increase in state transportation funding in more than two decades. For more information, read the California Transportation Commission's page on SB 1 at http://www.catc.ca.gov/programs/SB1.html. . |
| SB 45 | Legislation passed in 1997 that increased the authority of RTPAs and established the current STIP process. |
| SNRITSSDP | Sierra Nevada Region ITS Strategic Deployment Plan |
| SHIPO |
State Historic Interest Preservation Office |
| SR ## | State Route ## |
| SSTAC | Social Services Transportation Advisory Council |
| STA |
State Transit Assistance |
| STIP | State Transportation Improvement Program |
| TDA |
Transportation Development Act |
| TE |
Transportation Enhancement Activities |
| TSM | Transportation Systems Management |
| US ## |
U.S. Highway ## |