In-Vehicle Acronyms and Definitions

The following acronyms will be used throughout our documentation.

ADA

Americans with Disabilities Act

AGC

Automatic Gain Control: This is used to compensate for the internal announcement volume in noisy vehicles.

APC

Automatic Passenger Count

Driver Change

The MDT process for allowing a new Driver/operator to log on to a vehicle without forcing the previous operator to log off. The MyAvail In‑Vehicle system will retain current service information (Schedule adherence, APC, Headsign, etc..)

ITS

Intelligent Transportation System

MDT

Mobile Data Terminal: The touchscreen monitor interface between the operator and the myAvail in-vehicle application.

PTT

Push-to-Talk for the operator microphone of the radio handset

RTT

Request-to-Talk for voice calls

PRTT

Priority Request-to-Talk for voice calls

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