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English-French Lexicon, 2nd Edition

The PIARC Lexicon contains around 16,000 expressions in English and French of a common use for road engineers. In addition to all the terms of the PIARC Technical Road Dictionary, the Lexicon includes many new expressions that are classified in alphabetical order.

It contains terminology related to the following topics:

  • Road Design - Equipment of Roads
  • Road Construction - Road Signing
  • Road Materials - Road Lighting
  • Drainage of Water - Environment
  • Maintenance of Roads - Land Use
  • Bridges and Tunnels - Geography
  • Road Transport - Law
  • Traffic - Management and Financing
  • Regulation of Traffic - Communication
  • Road Safety - Computer Data Processing
  • Parking - Mathematics and Statistics
  • Road Users - Physics and Chemistry
  • Vehicles

Information sheet

  • Date: 2000
  • Domain(s): Terminology
  • Type: Bilingual English - French
  • PIARC Ref.: 81.02.BEN
  • ISBN: 2-84060-126-5
  • Number of pages: 1102
  • Price member: 46 €
  • Price non-members: 76 €