PIARC Dictionary

Technical Dictionary of Road Terms

validated by the members of the Technical and Terminology Committees of PIARC.

  • Reference languages: English and French.
  • August 2009 1,732 concepts, of which 1,070 with a definition.
  • Available 100 % in English, French and Dutch and over 94 % in German, Spanish, Norwegian, Portuguese and Ukrainian.
  • Partly available in Chinese, Hungarian (themes 1 to 5), Italian, Japanese, Russian, Serbian and Vietnamese.

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Themes

1-0-0 Types of roads
2-0-0 Design and geometry
3-0-0 Traffic and Transport
4-0-0 Intersections
5-0-0 Components of the road
6-0-0 Drainage
7-0-0 Auxiliary works and accessories
8-0-0 Structure of the pavement
9-0-0 Materials
10-0-0 Construction
11-0-0 Quality, faults and tests
12-0-0 Engineering structures
13-0-0 Maintenance, Winter maintenance and Management
14-0-0 Economics and Finance
15-0-0 Tunnels
16-0-0 Environment, Nuisance, Accidents
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