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PIARC TECHNICAL DICTIONARY OF ROAD TERMS
This eighth edition of the Technical Dictionary of Road Terms is published by the World Road Association (PIARC) on the occasion of the XXIIIrd World Road Congress hosted in Paris in September 2007.
This edition is released 80 years after the creation in 1927 of the first PIARC international committee dealing with nomenclature of construction modes and materials. The interest shown by PIARC for terminology issues has since remained constant and is part of the mission of the Association to promote the dissemination of knowledge in the area of road and road transport. This eighth edition is the outcome of the continuous efforts to update not only the Technical Dictionary of Road Terms, but also the Lexicon, several specialized dictionaries and an increasing number of language versions of the Technical Dictionary of Road Terms.
I congratulate the Technical Committee on Terminology and Translation Assistance for the considerable amount of work achieved, and especially its Chairman, Patrice Retour, for the development of the terminology database on the PIARC website and for the preparation of this edition.
Jean-François Corté
PIARC Secretary General
Other versions of the PIARC Technical Dictionary of Road Terms
The fifth French/English edition of the Dictionary (1982) was used for its translation into fifteen other languages: Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Spanish and Slovak. Each of these cross-referenced versions takes up the numbering of the basic Dictionary; some versions also include English and French terms; other versions cannot be used without this Dictionary because they do not contain English/French terms (but only the numbering).
The sixth edition (1990) was translated into Arabic, Czech, Greek, Lithuanian, Slovak, Spanish and Portuguese.
The seventh edition (1997) was translated into Hungarian, Latvian, Romanian and Vietnamese. More information
English/French Lexicon, 2nd Edition
Published in 2000, 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. More information