| AASHTO | American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials |
| AGC | Association of General Contractors |
| AID | Accelerated Innovation Deployment Program |
| AMR | Accelerating Market Readiness Program |
| ARTBA | American Road & Transportation Builders Association |
| CAI | Center for Accelerating Innovation |
| CIM | Construction Information Management |
| DBE | Disadvantaged Business Enterprises |
| DDSA | Data-Driven Safety Analysis |
| DOT | (State-level) Department of Transportation |
| EAR | Exploratory Advanced Research Program |
| EDC Program | Every Day Counts Program |
| EQ | Evaluation Question (for this study) |
| FAST | Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act |
| FHWA | Federal Highway Administration |
| GRS | Geosynthetic Reinforced Soil |
| HMA | Hot Mix Asphalt |
| HSM | Highway Safety Manual |
| IBS | Integrated Bridge System |
| IC | Intelligent Compaction |
| IDT | Innovation Deployment Team |
| MAP-21 | Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act |
| OECD | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
| OPSI | OECD Observatory of Public Sector Innovation |
| R&T | Research and Technology |
| RTCC | Research Technology Coordinating Committee |
| STIC | State Transportation Innovation Council |
| TFPE | TRB-FHWA Program Evaluation |
| TIDP | Technology and Innovation Deployment Program |
| TIM | Traffic Incident Management |
| TRB | Transportation Research Board |
| WMA | Warm Mix Asphalt |