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Video Surveillance Uses by Rail Transit Agencies (2011)

Chapter: ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS

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61 ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS ACE Altamont Commuter Express (California) BART Bay Area Rapid Transit District (California) BNSF Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway CCTV closed-circuit television CPTED crime prevention through environmental design CTA Chicago Transit Authority (Illinois) FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation GAO United States Government Accountability Office GCRTA Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Author- ity (Ohio) GPS global positioning system IT information technology LACMTA Los Angeles County Metropolitan Trans- portation Authority (California) LIRR Long Island Rail Road (New York State) LRV light rail vehicle LU London Underground (United Kingdom) MARTA Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Author- ity (Georgia) MBTA Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority METRAC Metro Action Committee on Public Vio- lence Against Women and Children METRO Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County (Texas) METRO Valley Metro Rail (Arizona) Metrolink Southern California Regional Rail Authority MetroLink Bi-State Development Agency (Missouri) MetroRail Miami-Dade Transit Metrorail (Florida) MTA-MD Maryland Transit Administration (Mary- land and Washington, DC) MTA Metropolitan Transportation Authority (New York State and Connecticut) MTI Norman Y. Mineta International Institute for Surface Transportation Policy Studies Institute (San Jose, California) MTR Mass Transit Railway (Hong Kong) Muni San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency NFTA Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority (New York State) NJT New Jersey Transit NYCT New York City Transit PAAC Port Authority of Allegheny County (Pennsylvania) PANY&NJ Port Authority of New York and New Jersey PATCO Port Authority Transit Company (New Jersey) PATH Port Authority Trans Hudson (New Jersey and New York State) PPD Phoenix Police Department RAPT Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens (France) ROW right-of-way RFP Request for Proposal RTD Regional Transportation District, Denver (Colorado) SCADA Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition System SCP situational crime prevention SEPTA Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority SRTD Sacramento Regional Transit District (California) TransLink Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority Tri-Met Tri-County Metropolitan Transit District (Oregon) TSGP Transit Security Grant Program TTC Toronto Transit Commission (Canada) TVM ticket vending machine UPRR Union Pacific Railroad WMATA Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (Maryland, Virginia, and Wash- ington, DC)

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TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Synthesis 90: Video Surveillance Uses by Rail Transit Agencies explores the current use of electronic video surveillance technology solely by passenger rail agencies onboard railcars, along rights-of-way, and more.

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