Acronyms: Learning Transportation Lingo

This short page provides links to a pair of documents containing glossaries of the acronyms and phrases used by various transportation agencies.

The first is a pdf file that is part of the current Regional Transportation Plan (RTP) for Santa Cruz County, which is located on the website of the Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission (SCCRTC).

The second is a page from the website of the Transportation Agency for Monterey County (TAMC). It has the advantage that many of the acronyms or phrases are linked to sites that provide detailed information relevant to the listed phrase.

So if you'd like to know what “TAMC”, or “STIP” or “RTIP” means, you've come to the right place. Just click on either of the above links. If you want to understand what's going on, it's helpful to learn the language.