| AIMSUN | Advanced Interactive Microscopic Simulator for Urban and Non-Urban Networks. A micro-simulation tool developed by UPC. |
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| APAS | Action de Promotion, d'Accompagnement et de Suivi et autres activities. |
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| ATT | Advanced Transport Telematics. Transport systems which use advanced computing and telecommunications components. |
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| AVM | Automatic Vehicle Monitoring. Any system which keeps track of vehicle positions. Commonly used for systems which track public transport vehicles. |
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| CERT | Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches de Toulouse. |
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| CTS | Centre for Research on Transportation and Society, Dalarna University. |
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| DGVII | Directorate General VII of the European Commission - Transport. |
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| DGXIII | Directorate General XIII of the European Commission - Telematics. |
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| DGXVII | Directorate General XVII of the European Commission - Energy. |
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| DRACULA | Dynamic Route Assignment Combining User Learning and micro-simulation. A micro-simulation tool developed by ITS. |
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| GETRAM | Generic Environment for Traffic Analysis and Modelling. The framework within which AIMSUN works. |
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| ICC | Intelligent Cruise Control. A system which controls the speed of vehicles allowing fast moving platoons to be formed. |
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| ISO 9001 | An international standard defining a Quality Assurance framework. |
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| ITS | Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds. |
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| KITE | A DGXIII funded project concerned with modelling the environmental effects of transport. |
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| NEMIS | Network Micro-Simulator. A micro-simulation tool developed by Mizar Automazione. |
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| PATH | Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways. The producers of the world's largest bibliographical database pertaining to Intelligent Transportation Systems. |
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| PROMETHEUS | PROgraMme for European Traffic with Highest Efficiency and Unprecedented Safety. |
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| RTD | Research and Technological Development. |
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| SATURN | Simulation and
Assignment of Traffic to Urban Road Networks. A tool used to assess the implications of a wide variety of transport schemes, used by transport planners throughout the world. |
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| SCOOT | Split, Cycle, Offset Optimisation Technique. An advanced adaptive UTC system used in many cities throughout the world. |
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| SITRA B+ | An urban Traffic Simulation tool developed by CERT. |
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| SMARTEST | Simulation Modelling Applied to Road Transport European Scheme Tests. A DGVII fourth framework project. |
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| SODIT | Société pour le Développment de l'Innovation dans les Transports. |
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| SPEACS | A single car motorway micro-simulator developed by Mizar Automazione. |
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| TEDI | A network building tool in the GETRAM suite. |
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| UPC | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. |
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| UTC | Urban Traffic Control. |
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| WWW | World Wide Web. Pages of data on computers around the world which can be accessed by using user-friendly browsing software, such as Netscape, Internet Explorer or Mosaic. |
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| ZELT | Zone Experimentale Laboratoire de Trafic de Toulouse. An instrumented traffic control test site. |
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