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Term of the Road Dictionary

traffic category

  • Language : PIARC Road Dictionary / English
  • Theme : Operations Traffic Traffic Engineering
  • Definition : Road category defined as a function of the number of vehicles carried per day and the percentage of heavy goods vehicles on the most heavily loaded traffic lane.

Verkehrsklasse

  • Language : PIARC Road Dictionary / German
  • Theme : Betrieb Verkehr Verkehrstechnik
  • Definition : Eine Straßenklasse, die als Funktion der Fahrzeugzahl pro Tag und dem Prozentsatz von Schwerfahrzeugen auf dem am schwerstbelasteten Fahrstreifen bestimmt wird.

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