Jargon

Transit glossary

• AVAS - Automatic Voice Anouncement System, but also used to refer to the data generated by the system put in place to meet ADA requirements for AVAS

• AVL - Automatic Vehicle Location

• APC - Automatic Passenger Counting

• BRT - Bus Rapid Transit

• BSM - ???

• BSHT - bus_state_hist_timpts data

• GTFS - General Transit Feed Specification

• HASTUS - an integrated and modular software solution for transit scheduling, operations, and passenger information & relations

• Pick - The selection process by which operators are allowed to select new work assignments, i.e., run or the Extra Board in the next (forthcoming) schedule.