October 2024

Question 1

John Kwant

Answer 1

Executive Director, Americas of 5G Automotive Association

Question 2

NPRM

Answer 2

Notice of Proposed Rule Making

Question 3

Yunex

Answer 3

Smart City, Traffic Management company

Question 4

bump out

Answer 4

curb extension from ped area out into roadway. Meant to increase pedestrian safety.

Question 5

NTCIP 1218

Answer 5

National Transportation Communications for ITS Protocol 1218
1218 is a specific standard within the NTCIP family, which focuses on communication with Remote Device Monitoring (RDM) systems.

Question 6

MIB

Answer 6

Management Information Base
MIB is a database used for managing the entities in a computer network, particularly in systems that use the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). It defines the structure and format of the network information that can be retrieved or modified, usually for performance monitoring, fault detection, or system configuration.

Question 7

SDLC

Answer 7

Synchronous Data Link Control
The SDLC bus (Synchronous Data Link Control) is a communication protocol commonly used in traffic control systems to allow various devices and components in a traffic control cabinet to communicate with each other. In this context, traffic control cabinets house important equipment like traffic signal controllers, detectors, and communication devices. The SDLC bus connects these components, ensuring smooth and reliable data transfer between them.

SDLC is a synchronous, serial communication protocol that facilitates reliable, error-checked transmission of data between devices in the cabinet. It is widely used in systems that need high reliability, like traffic control.

Question 8

SDLC Conflict Monitor

Answer 8

An MMU (Malfunction Monitoring Unit)

Question 9

CTI 4501

Answer 9

The Connected Transportation Interoperability (CTI)
Connected Intersections Implementation Guide

Question 10

NSF CIS Program Director

Answer 10

Siquan Shen (Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor here at UM

Question 11

NSF CIS

Answer 11

Civil Infrastructure Systems

Question 12

Five groups at UMTRI (there are really 6)

Answer 12

Administration
Behavioral Sciences
Biosciences
CMISST (Center for Management of Information for Safe and Sustainable Transportation)
Engineering Systems
Human Factors

Question 13

CMISST

Answer 13

CMISST (Center for Management of Information for Safe and Sustainable Transportation)

Question 14

Singularity

Answer 14

another container runner. compatible with docker, you can run images

Question 15

zero-shot model

Answer 15

A zero-shot model isa machine learning model that can recognize and classify new concepts without being trained on labeled examples

Question 16

Co-Detr

Answer 16

Detr, or Detection Transformer, is a set-based object detector using a Transformer on top of a convolutional backbone. It uses a conventional CNN backbone to learn a 2D representation of an input image. The model flattens it and supplements it with a positional encoding before passing it into a transformer encoder.
Co-DETR integrates an attention mechanism to better model relationships between detected objects, which helps it better understand and separate objects in scenes with high interaction or density.

Question 17

backbone (as it applies to Neural Networks)

Answer 17

Generally, the term backbone refers to the feature-extracting network that processes input data into a certain feature representation.

Question 18

CNN

Answer 18

Convolutional Neural Network

Question 19

layers versus nodes versus weights (Neural Networks)

Answer 19

Layers are the columns of nodes. There are usually many layers.
Nodes are the individual “spots” in the NN.
Weights are the connections.

Question 20

YOLO Model

Answer 20

YOLO (You Only Look Once) is a real-time object detection model that performs object detection in a single pass through the network, making it fast and efficient.

Question 21

TSP

Answer 21

Transit Signal Priority (Something that Luke Liu at the city was keenly interested in)

Question 22

WSMP

Answer 22

Wave Short Message Protocol

Question 23

AASHTO

Answer 23

American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials

Question 24

ITSA

Answer 24

ITS America
Intelligent Transportation Society America

Question 25

AACE 2.0 Award Amount

Answer 25

9.9 M

Question 26

ORSP

Answer 26

Office of Research and Sponsored Projects

Question 27

ATTAIN

Answer 27

Advanced Transportation Technology And InnovatioN

Question 28

CSW

Answer 28

Curve Speed Warning

Question 29

DMP

Answer 29

Data Management Plan

Question 30

SPMD

Answer 30

Safety Pilot Model Deployment

Question 31

CORS

Answer 31

Continually Operating Reference Station (RTK)