| AASHTO | American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials |
| APEL | Applied Process Engineering Laboratory |
| BASt | Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen (Germany) |
| BBA | British Board of Agrément |
| BRE | Building Research Establishment (United Kingdom) |
| CEN | European Committee for Standardization |
| CRCP | continuously reinforced concrete pavement |
| CROW | Information and Technology Centre for Transport and Infrastructure (The Netherlands) |
| DBFO | design-build-finance-operate |
| DOT | department of transportation |
| DRI | Danish Road Institute |
| DWW | Dienst Weg-en Waterbouwkunde (The Netherlands) |
| EOTA | European Organisation for Technical Approvals |
| EPS | expanded poly-styrol |
| EU | European Union |
| FGSV | Road Transport and Research Association (Germany) |
| FHWA | Federal Highway Administration |
| FRP | fiber-reinforced polymer |
| HA | Highways Agency (United Kingdom) |
| HAPAS | Highway Authorities Product Approval Scheme |
| HITEC | Highway Innovative Technology Evaluation Center |
| HMA | hot-mix asphalt |
| HPC | high-performance concrete |
| IRI | international roughness index |
| JPCP | jointed plain concrete pavement |
| LCB | lean concrete base |
| NCHRP | National Cooperative Highway Research Program |
| NTPEP | National Transportation Product Evaluation Program |
| OECD | Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development |
| PCCP | portland cement concrete pavement |
| PMS | pavement management system |
| RWS | Rijkswaterstaat (The Netherlands) |
| SHRP | Strategic Highway Research Program |
| SMA | stone-matrix asphalt |
| TRB | Transportation Research Board |
| TRL | Transport Research Laboratory (United Kingdom) |
| WIM | weigh-in-motion |
