Glossary of Terms

AAR Airport Arrival Rate
AATT Advanced Air Transportation Technologies
A/DMT Arrival/Departure Management Tool
AC Adaptive Compression
ACARS Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System
ACC Area Control Center
ACU Area Control Unit
ADEPT Airspace Design Environmental Prototyping Tool
ADT Airspace Design Tool
AEDT Aviation Environmental Design Tool
ADR Airport Departure Rate
ADS Automatic Dependent Surveillance
ADS-B Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast
AF Airway Facilities
AFMI Area Flow Management Initiative
AFMU Area Flow Management Unit
AFP Airspace Flow Program
AFSM Airport Flight Schedule Monitor
AFTN Aeronautical Fixed Telecommunications Network
AIS Aeronautical Information Services
AMP Area Monitoring Position
ANSP Air Navigation Service Provider
AOC Airline Operations Center
AOR Airspace Optimization Research
APP Approach Control Unit
APREQ Approved Request
ASM Airspace Management
ATC Air Traffic Control
ATCA Air Traffic Control Association
ATCSCC Air Traffic Control System Command Center
ATCT Airport Traffic Control Tower
ATFM Air Traffic Flow Management
ATIM Airportal Transition and Integration Management
ATM Air Traffic Management
ATSP Air Traffic Service Provider
CADOM Coordinated Arrival and Departure Operations Management
CAMU Central Airspace Management Unit
CANSO Civil Air Navigation Services Organization
CBT Computer-Based Training
CCB Change Control Board
CD Concept Development
CDM Collaborative Decision Making
CDR Coded Departure Routes
CE Concept Exploration/Concept Engineering
CED Concept Engineering and Development
CO Carbon Monoxide
CTOT Calculated Takeoff Time
DAC Dynamic Airspace Configuration
DASC Digital Avionics Systems Conference
DFM Departure Flow Management
DNAP Departure Noise Avoidance Planner
DNL Day/night sound level
DST Decision Support Tool
ELLDT Earliest Airline Landing Time
ELTOT Earliest Airline Takeoff Time
ENTIRE Emissions and Noise Total Impact Reduction
EPACT Analysis for the Energy Policy Act
ESM Enhanced Substitution Module
ETL Extraction, Transformation and Loading
FAA Federal Aviation Administration
FACE Flow Constraint Areas Airpsace Capacity Estimator
FCA Flow Constrained Areas
FCT Future Concepts Team
FIR Flight Information Region
FSA Flight Schedule Analyzer
FSM Flight Schedule Monitor
GA General Aviation
GAAP General Aviation Airport Program
GDP Ground Delay Program
GOC Global Operations Control
GS Ground Stop
HC/VOC Hydrocarbons/Volatile Organic Compounds
HITL Human-In-The-Loop
IACM Integrated Airport Capacity Model
ICAO International Civil Aviation Organization
IDFL Interactive Dynamic Flight List
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IFR Instrument Flight Rules
IRIS Integrated Reporting and Information System
ISE Integrated Simulation Environment
ISO International Organization for Standardization
JPDO Joint Planning and Development Office
MAP Monitor Alert Parameter
MEFISTO Modeling Environmental Factors in Surface Traffic Optimization
MEM Memphis International Airport
NAS National Airspace System
NASA National Space and Aeronautics Administration
NASEIM National Airspace System-wide Environmental Impact Model
NAVAID Navigational Aid
NEPA National Environmental Policy Act
NetFM Network Flow Model
NFDC National Flight Data Center
NIRS Noise Integrated Routing System
NOX Nitrogen Oxide
NST NIRS Screening Tool
OAG Official Airline Guide
OEP Operational Evolution Plan
OLTP Online Transaction Processing
OR Operations Research
PM Particulate Matter
POET Post Operations Evaluation Tool
PTO Paid Time Off
QA Quality Assurance
RMT Route Management Tool
ROG Route Options Generator
ROMA Route Optimization for Mitigation Analysis
SCS Slot Credit Substitution
SE-2020 Systems Engineering 2020
SESO Safe and Efficient Surface Operations
SEVEN System Enhancements for Versatile Electronic Negotiation
SMS Surface Management System
SOT Airspace Sectorization Tool
SOX Sulfur Dioxide
STAR Standard Terminal Arrivals
SUA Special Use Airspace
TBFM Time Based Flow Management
TBO Trajectory-Based Operations
TFMS Traffic Flow Management System
TM Traffic Managers
TMI Traffic Management Initiatives
TOBT Target Off-Block Time
TOPA Traffic Flow Management Operations and Performance Analysis
TRACON Terminal Radar Approach Control
WJHTC William J. Hughes Technical Center
ZLA Los Angeles Center