Glossary of Terms
IBTTA’s transportation Glossary of Terms is an ever-changing list of terms used within the transportation and tolling industry. The Glossary was updated in August 2018. If you have suggestions for future additions, please contact us.
The Council of Platinum Sponsors (CoPS) TollMiner & Glossary Working Group was created to improve definitions of toll facility concepts that are used in the IBTTA TollMiner Data Visualization tool. Since the TollMiner data and structure are closely linked to the IBTTA Glossary, a review and draft update of the glossary was performed during 2021.
Title |
Description |
|---|---|
| HCM |
Highway Capacity Manual. An engineering reference manual for road design. |
| HCR |
High Capacity Road |
| HGV |
Heavy Goods Vehicles. Typically refers to trucks over 3.5 tons |
| HMI |
Human-Machine Interface. A front-end user interface. |
| HOT |
High-Occupancy Toll Lanes: HOT lanes are Priced Managed Lanes that use price, occupancy, and access restrictions to manage the number of vehicles traveling on them, thereby maintaining free-flow traffic conditions, even during peak travel periods. Typically, qualifying HOVs may use these limited-access highway lanes for free or at a reduced cost. Motorists in vehicles that do not meet passenger occupancy requirements may choose between the general-purpose lanes or paying for premium conditions in the HOT lanes. |
| HOV Lanes |
High Occupancy Vehicle lanes. Lanes typically reserved for vehicles with two or more occupants. |
| Hub |
Or “Clearinghouse Hub”, is a node on the Clearinghouse Network, interfaces to all other Hubs on the Clearinghouse Network. |