ENGLISH - FRENCH

Abstract: rsum
Acceleration: acclration; acceleration lane: voie d'acclration
Access: desserte; accessibility: accessibilit; access road: voirie tertiaire, rue ou route
de desserte locale; access ramp: rampe d'accs
Accident: accident; accident severity: gravit de l'accident, des accidents; serious
accident: accident grave; light accident: accident lger; fatal accident: accident
mortel; injury-accident, injury-producing accident, personal injury accident:
accident corporel; damage accident, damage-only accident, material accident:
accident matriel; link accident: accident en section courante; junction accident:
accident en intersection; accident report: procs-verbal d'accident; reported accident:
accident rapport; accident form: formulaire d'accident; accident data: donnes
d'accidents; accident file: fichier d'accidents; accident statistics: statistiques
d'accidents; accident research: accidentologie, recherche accidentologique; accident
analysis: analyse d'accidents; accident study: tude d'accident; accident survey:
enqute d'accident; detailed accident investigation: enqute dtaille d'accidents; indepth accident investigation: tude approfondie d'accidents; accident factor,
accident-producing factor, accident-prone factor (am.): facteur accidentogne;
accident proneness: prdisposition aux accidents; accident prevention: prvention des
accidents
Accurate: prcis, exact; accuracy: prcision, exactitude
Achieve (to): accomplir; achievement: accomplissement
Acoustic: acoustique; acoustics: l'acoustique: acoustic signal: signal sonore
Action: action; safety action: action de scurit; preventive action: action prventive;
evasive action: action d'vitement
Activity: activit; activity report: compte-rendu d'activit
Actual: rel
Add (to): additionner

Administration: administration; national administration: administration centrale;

administration board: conseil d'administration
Adult: adulte
Advertisement: publicit; advertisement campaign: campagne de publicit
Advice: conseil, avis; advisory: conseil, consultatif; adviser: conseiller; advisory
committee: comit consultatif; piece of advice: conseil; to seek advice: consulter
Age: ge; to age: vieillir; ageing: vieillissement; age range, age group: tranche d'ge
Agency: institution, service
Aggregate (to): agrger; aggregation: agrgation
Aggression: agression; aggressiveness (psy.): agressivit; aggressivity: agressivit;
structural aggressivity: agressivit (d'un vhicule)
Aim: but; to aim: viser
Air: air; air-bag: sac gonflable; air-bag system: dispositif de retenue par sac-gonflable;
air-brake: frein air comprim; air-pollution: pollution atmosphrique
Alarm: alerte; alarm system: dispositif d'alerte
Alcohol: alcool; alcohol rate: taux d'alcoolmie; blood alcohol rate, blood alcohol
concentration (BAC): taux d'alcool dans le sang, taux d'alcoolmie sanguine
Alignment: alignement; horizontal alignment: trac en plan; vertical alignment: trac
de profil en long
Amber: feu orange; flashing amber: feu clignotant
Ambulance: ambulance
Analogous: analogue
Analysis: analyse; data analysis: analyse des donnes; factorial analysis: analyse
factorielle; in-depth analysis: analyse approfondie; statistical analysis: analyse
statistique; variance analysis: analyse de variance; discriminant analysis: analyse

discriminante; correspondance analysis: analyse des correspondances; cluster

analysis: classification automatique
Annual: annuel; annually: annuellement
Application: application; to apply: appliquer; applied sciences: sciences appliques;
applied research: recherche applique
Approach: approche, dmarche; integrated approach: approche intgre; global
approach, comprehensive approach: approche globale; system approach: approche
systme; corrective approach: approche correctrice; preventive approach: approche
prventive; statistical approach: approche statistique; epidemiological approach:
approche pidmiologique; diagnostic approach: approche diagnostique; approach to
intersection, junction approach: approche d'intersection; tunnel approach,
underpass approach: trmie
Approval: approbation; approved: homologu; type approval: homologation
Approximation: approximation
Aquaplaning: hydroplanage
Arcade: galerie, passage; shopping arcade: galerie commerante
Area: zone, domaine; urban area: zone urbaine, agglomration; built-up area:
agglomration; rural area: zone rurale, rase-campagne; residential area: zone
rsidentielle; shopping area: zone commerante; industrial area: zone industrielle;
metropolitan area: aire mtropolitaine; rest area: aire de repos; service area: aire de
service; space-sharing area, mixed trafic area: zone de circulation intgre, zone
voirie banalise; pedestrian area: zone pitonne; pedestrianized area: zone
pitonnire, pitonnise; research area: domaine de recherche
Argue (to): discuter, contredire; argument: discussion contradictoire
Arterial: artriel; arterial road, artery: artre
Asphalt: asphalte; asphalt concrete: bton bitumineux
Assess (to): valuer; assessment: valuation, estimation
Assign (to): assigner, affecter; assignment: affectation; traffic assignment: affectation
du trafic

Assistance: assistance
Assume (to): supposer, faire l'hypothse; assumption: hypothse
Attention: attention
Attitude: attitude
Author: auteur
Authorize (to): autoriser; authorization: autorisation
Authority: administration responsable; the authorities: les autorits; local authority:
collectivit locale
Availability: disponibilit; available: disponible
Average: moyen (adj.); in average: en moyenne
Avoid (to): viter; avoidance: vitement
Aware: conscient, averti; awareness: conscience, veil; unaware: inconscient, non
prvenu
Axis: axe
Axle: essieu; back axle: essieu arrire; front axle: essieu avant; axle load: charge par
essieu

Back: arrire; back seat: sige arrire

Background: contexte, arrire-plan; background paper: papier de rfrence, papier de
base
Bank: banque; saving bank: caisse d'pargne; bank loan: prt bancaire; World Bank:
Banque Mondiale
Barrier: barrire; crash barrier: barrire de scurit; noise barrier: cran anti-bruit;
pedestrian barrier: barrire-piton
Base: base; data base: base de donnes; base year: anne de rfrence, anne de base
Basis: base, fondation; basic: fondamental, de base; basic assumption: hypothse de
base
Battery: batterie
Beam: rayon; phare (am.); high beams (am.): feux de route; sealed beams: phares
scells
Behaviour: (le) comportement, (les) comportements; item of behaviour: (un)
comportement; road-user behaviour:
comportement des usagers; hazardous
behaviour: comportement dangereux; critical behaviour: comportements critiques;
illegal behaviour: comportement infractionnel; to influence behaviour: agir sur le(s)
comportement(s)
Behavioural: comportemental; behavioural observation: observation de
comportements; behavioural study; tude de comportements; behavioural research:
recherche comportementale; behavioural factor: facteur comportemental
Belt: ceinture; seat belt: ceinture de scurit; diagonal belt: ceinture-baudrier; lap belt:
ceinture deux-points; lap-and-diagonal belt: ceinture trois-points; inertia reel seat
belt: ceinture enrouleur; to buckle one's belt: boucler sa ceinture
Bench: banc

Bend: virage, tournant; sharp bend: virage serr; hairpin bend: virage en pingle
cheveux, lacet
Benefit: bnfice, gain; safety benefit: gain de scurit; discounted benefit: gain
actualis; cost-benefit: cot-bnfice
Bet: pari; to bet: parier
Bias: biais; biased: biais; to cancel a bias: redresser un biais
Bicycle: bicyclette
Bifurcation: bifurcation
Biomechanics of trauma: biomcanique des chocs
Bitumen: bitume; bituminous concrete: bton bitumineux
Black box: bote noire
Blackspot: point noir; blackspot treatment: traitement de points noirs
Block: lot (bti); obstacle; bloc; to block out: bloquer, faire cran; mid-block: en
section courante; road-block: barrage; mental block: blocage (mental)
Blood: sang; blood alcohol rate, blood alcohol concentration (BAC): taux
d'alcoolmie sanguine; blood sample: prise de sang; blood test: prise de sang, analyse
de sang
Board: conseil; bord (veh.); on board a vehicle: bord d'un vhicule; dashboard:
tableau de bord
Body: corps; carrosserie
Bonnet: capot
Borrow (to): emprunter; borrower: emprunteur
Border: frontire; border-line: limite
Bottleneck: goulot d'tranglement

Brake (to): freiner; brake: frein; braking: freinage; braking marks: traces de
freinage; braking distance: distance de freinage; anti-locking brake: frein antibloquant; air-brake: frein air comprim; disc brake: frein disque; drum brake:
frein tambour; hand brake: frein main; brake light: feu de stop; brake lining:
garniture de frein
Branch: branche; branch from intersection: branche d'intersection
Breakdown: panne; breakdown service: service de dpannage; breakdown of costs:
rpartition des cots
Breath: haleine; breathalyser: analyseur d'haleine; breath test: alcootest
Bridge: pont; suspension bridge: pont suspendu; cable stayed bridge: pont
haubans; bascule bridge: pont basculant; draw bridge: pont levant; bridge pier: pile
de pont; foot-bridge: passerelle
Budget: budget
Build (to): construire; building: construction, immeuble; built-up area: agglomration;
small built-up area: petite agglomration; high-rise building: immeuble de grande
hauteur
Bumper: pare-choc
Bus: autobus; minibus: minibus; bus network, bus system: rseau d'autobus; busroute: itinraire d'autobus; bus-stop: arrt d'autobus; bus-lane: voie rserve aux
autobus; segregated bus-lane: voie-bus en site propre; bus-line: ligne d'autobus; busservice: desserte par autobus; bus driver: chauffeur d'autobus
By-pass: dviation; contournement

Cab: taxi; cab driver: chauffeur de taxi

Calculation: calcul
Calibration: calibrage, talonnage
Campaign: campagne; media-campaign: campagne (par media); information
campaign: campagne d'information; safety campaign: campagne de scurit;
advertisement campaign: campagne de publicit
Cancel (to): annuler; to cancel out: s'annuler (mutuellement); to cancel a bias:
redresser un biais
Capacity: capacit; storage capacity: capacit de stockage
Car: automobile, voiture; private car: voiture particulire; fast car: voiture rapide; car
user: automobiliste; car driver: conducteur de voiture; car occupant: passager; car
interior: habitacle; car insurance: assurance automobile; car manufacturer:
constructeur automobile; car ownership: motorisation; car-ownership rate: taux de
motorisation; floating car: vhicule flottant; passenger car unit (PCU): unit voiture
particulire (UVP); car-hire, car-rental: location de voiture; car-park: parc de
stationnement; multi-storey car-park: parc de stationnement en silo; underground
car-park: parking souterrain
Carbon: carbone; carbon dioxide: gaz carbonique; carbon monoxide: oxyde de
carbone
Carburettor, carburetor (am.): carburateur
Card: carte; punched card: carte perfore
Care: soin, soins; medical care: soins mdicaux; primary health care: soins de sant
primaire; intensive care: soins intensifs
Cargo: chargement, cargaison

Carriageway: chausse; dual carriageway: (route ) chausses spares; single

carriageway: (route ) chausse unique; exit from carriageway: sortie de route, sortie
de chausse
Cartographer: cartographe; cartography: la cartographie
Case: cas; case study: tude de cas
Casualty: victime
Catalogue: catalogue; catalogue of ideas: catalogue d'ides
Categorize (to): catgoriser; category: catgorie
Catseye: plot rtrorflchissant
Census: recensement
Central: central; central reserve: terre-plein central; central business district (CBD,
am.): centre des affaires
Centre, center (am.): centre; shopping centre: centre commercial; city centre, town
centre: centre-ville
Challenge: dfi
Chart: diagramme, schma, reprsentation graphique; flow-chart, organisation chart:
organigramme
Chassis: chassis
Check: contrle; vrification; technical check of vehicles: contrle technique des
vhicules; random check: contrle alatoire
Child: enfant; child game: jeu d'enfant
Chippings: gravillons
Circulate (to): faire circuler, diffuser
City: (grande) ville; city technical services: services techniques municipaux
Civil engineering: gnie civil

Class: classe; to classify: classer; classification: classification; tri (approx.);

misclassified: mal class
Clearance: gabarit; head clearance: hauteur libre
Clinical: clinique
Close (to): fermer; closure: fermeture
Cloud: nuage; cloudy: nuageux; cloudy weather: temps couvert
Cluster: groupement, agrgat; cluster analysis: classification automatique
Clutch: embrayage
Code: code; to code: coder; coding: codage
Collect (to): recueillir; collection: recueil; to collect data: recueillir des donnes; data
collection: recueil des donnes
Collision: collision, choc, accident; multiple in-line collision: accident en chane;
rear-end collision: choc arrire; head-on collision: collision frontale
Comfort: confort; comfortable: confortable
Commission: commission
Commitment: engagement
Committee: comit; steering committee: comit de direction; organizing committee:
comit d'organisation; scientific committee: comit scientifique; advisory committee:
comit consultatif
Commuter: banlieusard (approx.), migrant; commuter traffic: migrations alternantes,
migrations domicile- travail; commuter train: train de banlieue
Competition: concurrence
Complex: complexe
Component: composant; lment (d'un ensemble)

Comprehensive: exhaustif; comprehensive file: fichier exhaustif;

comprehensiveness: exhaustivit
Compulsory: obligatoire; compulsory seat-belt (helmet) wearing: port obligatoire de
la ceinture (du casque)
Computer: ordinateur; micro-computer: micro-ordinateur; computer sciences:
informatique; computer scientist: informaticien; computer processing: traitement
informatique; to process by computer: traiter par ordinateur; computer programme:
programme informatique; to computerize: informatiser
Concept: concept; conceptual: conceptuel; conceptual pitfall: pige conceptuel
Conclusion: conclusion
Concrete: bton; asphalt concrete, bituminous concrete: bton bitumineux
Conference: confrence, colloque
Confidence: confiance; confidence interval: intervalle de confiance
Conflict: conflit; traffic conflict: conflit de trafic; traffic conflict technique: technique
des conflits de trafic; conflict observation: observation de conflits; to resolve a
conflict: rsoudre un conflit
Congestion: bouchon, embouteillage, saturation
Congress: congrs; Congress Hall: Palais des Congrs
Conscious: conscient; unconscious: inconscient, sans connaissance
Consistent: cohrent; consistency: cohrence; reproductibilit
Conspicuity: visibilit; conspicuous: visible, remarquable
Constraint: contrainte
Construct (to): construire; road construction: construction de route; construction
costs: cots de construction
Consultant: conseil; private consultant: bureau d'tude priv

Consumer: consommateur; consumption: consommation; fuel consumption:

consommation de carburant
Contrast: contraste
Context: contexte
Control (to): contrler, rgler; controls: tmoin; commandes; control sample:
chantillon tmoin; control group: groupe-tmoin; control vehicle: vhicule-tmoin;
controlled experiment: tude exprimental-tmoin; urban traffic control: rgulation
du trafic; quality control: contrle de qualit; remote control: tlcommande,
commande distance; to go out of control: chapper au contrle; out of control:
incontrlable; to loose control: perdre le contrle; loss of control: perte de contrle; to
regain control: reprendre le contrle
Correct: correct, exact; correction: correction
Corrective: correcteur; corrective measure: mesure correctrice; corrective safety:
scurit correctrice
Correlation: corrlation
Corrosion: corrosion
Corrugation: tle ondule
Cost: cot; cost of human life: cot de la vie humaine; cost-efficiency: cot-efficacit,
rentabilit; cost-efficient: rentable; cost-effectiveness: cot-efficience; cost-benefit:
cot-benefice, cot-avantage; cost-benefit calculations: calcul de rentabilit; marginal
cost: cot marginal; supplementary cost: cot additionnel; investment costs: cots
d'investissement; cost of operation: cot d'exploitation; construction costs: cots de
construction; low-cost: bas cot
Council: conseil; councillor: conseiller; municipal council, local council: conseil
municipal; county council: conseil gnral (approx.); council housing: habitat HLM
(approx.); council estate: zone d'habitat HLM, grand ensemble HLM (approx.)
Count (to): compter, comptabiliser; counter: compteur; traffic count: comptage de
trafic
Countermeasures: mesures de scurit, contremesures
Countryside: campagne; open countryside: rase-campagne

Country: pays; industrialized country: pays industrialis; developing country: pays

en dveloppement; motor-manufacturing country: pays producteur d'automobiles
County: comt, dpartement (approx.)
Course: trajectoire; cours; to be on a collision course: se trouver sur des trajectoires
concourantes
Crack: fissure
Crash: choc, collision; car crash: accident de voiture; crash recorder: bote noire;
crash barrier: barrire de scurit; crash helmet: casque; crash cushion, crash
attenuator: attnuateur de choc
Criterion: critre; criteria: critres
Critical: critique; critical path method (CPM): mthode du chemin critique
Cross: croix; to cross: traverser; croiser; cross intersection, crossroads: carrefour en
croix; to cross a junction: franchir un carrefour, une intersection; to cross at an angle:
traverser en biais; to cross against traffic lights: traverser au rouge; to cross-tabulate
data: croiser des donnes; cross-tabulation: croisement de donnes, tableaux croiss;
cross fall: pente transversale; cross-validation: validation transversale (approx.)
Crossing: traverse, passage; pedestrian crossing: passage piton, traverse-piton;
zebra crossing: passage piton, passage zbr; pelican crossing: passage piton
bouton-poussoir (approx.); crossing facility: dispositif, quipement de traverse; levelcrossing: passage niveau; grade-separated crossing: passage dnivel; school
crossing patrol: patrouille scolaire
Cul de sac: impasse, route sans issue
Cultural: culturel; culture: culture; cultural environment: contexte culturel
Curvature: courbure; curve: virage, tournant, courbe; curve radius: rayon de
courbure; transition curve: courbe de raccordement
Cycle: cycle; cyclable; to cycle: faire de la bicyclette; cycle track: piste cyclable; cycle
lane: bande cyclable; cycle path, cycle route: itinraire cyclable; traffic light cycle:
cycle de feux
Cyclist: cycliste

Damage: dommages, dgts; damage-only accident: accident matriel

Danger: (le) danger; danger at stake: enjeu de scurit; dangerous: dangereux
Dark: sombre; darkness: obscurit
Dashboard: tableau de bord
Data: donne(s); data collection, data gathering: collecte des donnes, recueil des
donnes; to store data: stocker des donnes; data base: base de donnes; basic data:
donnes de base; detailed data: donnes dtailles; background data: donnes de
rfrence; categorical data: donnes catgorises, classes; statistical data: donnes
statistiques; accident data: donnes d'accidents; exposure data: donne(s)
d'exposition; input data: donnes en entre; output data: donnes en sortie, donnes
rsultantes; data treatment: traitement des donnes; data processing: traitement
informatique des donnes; data analysis: analyse des donnes
Dawn: aube
Day: jour; daily: journalier, quotidien; daily trip: trajet quotidien; in daylight, by day:
de jour
Dazzle (to): blouir
Dead: mort (adj.); dead on the spot: mort sur le coup; dead end (am.): impasse, voie
sans issue
Death: mort
Decelerate (to): ralentir; deceleration: dclration, ralentissement; deceleration lane:
voie de dclration
Decision: dcision; decision-making: prise de dcision; decision-maker: dcideur;
decision-process: processus dcisionnel
Decrease: diminution, rduction; to decrease: diminuer
Defect: defaut

Define (to): dfinir; definition: dfinition

Deformation: dformation; deformation index: indice de dformation
Delay: attente, retard; kerb delay: attente au bord du trottoir
Delineator: dlinateur
Demonstrate (to): mettre en vidence, montrer; demonstration programme:
programme-pilote
Department: ministre; dpartement; Department of the Environment, DoE (Brit.):
Ministre de l'Environnement; Department of Transport DoT (Brit.): Ministre des
Transports
Depression: dpression; flache
Describe (to): dcrire; description: description; descriptive variable: variable
descriptive
Design: conception; to design: concevoir; re-design: conception nouvelle; adverse
road design: mauvais trac de route
Detect (to): dtecter; detector: dtecteur; detection: dtection; detection threshold:
seuil de dtection
Deteriorate (to): se dgrader; deterioration: dgradation; deteriorated surfacing:
chausse dgrade
Determination: dtermination; to determine: dterminer
Develop (to): concevoir, mettre au point, laborer; development: dveloppement; mise
au point, conception; developing country: pays en dveloppement; pace of
development: rythme de dveloppement
Deviation: divergence; standard deviation: cart-type
Device: quipement, dispositif; safety device: quipement de scurit; amnagement de
scurit (approx.); protective device: dispositif de protection, quipement de
protection; retroreflective device: dispositif rtro-rflchissant

Diagnosis: diagnostic; diagnostic: diagnostique; safety diagnosis: diagnostic de

scurit; diagnostic approach: approche diagnostique
Diagram: diagramme, figure; accident diagram: diagramme d'accidents; scatter
diagram: nuage de points
Dimension: dimension; multidimensional space: espace pluri-dimensionnel; twodimensional: bidimensionnel
Direction: direction; direction arrow: flche de direction; advance direction signing:
prslection; direction signing: signalisation de direction, jalonnement
Director: directeur; directorate: Direction; deputy-director: directeur adjoint;
Transport Directorate: Direction des Transports; Road Safety Directorate: Direction
de la Scurit Routire
Disability: handicap; disabled: handicap
Discrepancy: cart, dcalage
Discount to the present (to): actualiser la priode prsente
Discuss (to): discuter; discussion: discussion
Dispersion: dispersion
Disseminate (to): diffuser
Distance: distance; sight distance: distance de visibilit; stopping distance: distance
d'arrt; overtaking sight distance: visibilit de dpassement; weaving distance:
distance d'entrecroisement
District: dpartement (approx.)
Distribute (to): distribuer, rpartir; distribution: distribution, rpartition, histogramme;
loi (statist.); to be distributed: se distribuer; binomial distribution: loi binmiale;
normal distribution: loi normale; Poisson distribution: loi de Poisson
Disturb (to): dranger, perturber; disturbance: perturbation; please do not disturb:
prire de ne pas dranger
Ditch: foss

Diversion: dviation; dlestage (approx.); to divert: dvier; temporary diversion:

dviation temporaire
Document: document; documentation: documentation; documentary: documentaire
Door: porte; car door: portire
Downtown area (am.): centre-ville
Draft: version provisoire, esquisse; draft report: rapport provisoire; first draft:
premire esquisse, premire version
Drainage: drainage
Dressing: enduit; surface dressing: enduit superficiel
Drink (to): boire; drunkenness: ivresse; drunken: ivre; drinking and driving,
drunken driving: boire et conduire, conduite en tat d'ivresse; drinking driver, drunk
driver: conducteur alcoolis
Drive (to): conduire; driver: conducteur; chauffeur; driving: conduite; driver's error:
erreur de conduite; driver training: formation la conduite; (alcohol) impaired
driver, drunk driver: conducteur alcoolis; hit-and-run driver: conducteur en fuite;
bus driver: chauffeur d'autobus; taxi driver: chauffeur de taxi; lorry driver: routier,
chauffeur de camion, chauffeur de poids-lourd; driving school: auto-cole; driving
instructor: moniteur d'auto-cole; driving licence: permis de conduire; driving test:
examen du permis de conduire; careless driving: conduite dangereuse; driving fitness:
aptitude (physique) la conduite; driving skills: aptitudes la conduite; supervised
driving: conduite accompagne
Drug: drogue, mdicament; psychotropic drug: drogue psychotrope
Dummy: mannequin; anthropometric dummy: mannequin anthropomorphique
Dusk: crpuscule
Durability: durabilit; duration: dure
Dynamical: dynamique; dynamics: (la) dynamique; dynamical parameter: paramtre
dynamique; car dynamics: dynamique du vhicule

Earthwork: terassement
Economical: conomique; economics: l'conomie; economist: conomiste
Education: ducation; safety education: ducation de scurit, enseignement de la
scurit; education programme: programme d'ducation, d'enseignement
Effect: effet; severance effect: effet coupure; gate effect: effet de porte; wall effect:
effet de paroi; halo effect: effet de halo; secondary effect, side effect: effet induit;
negative effect: effet parasitaire
Effective: efficace; effectiveness: efficacit, efficience; cost-effectiveness: cotefficience
Efficiency: efficacit; efficient: efficace; cost-efficiency: cot-efficacit, rentabilit;
cost-efficient: rentable; to work efficiently: travailler efficacement
Eigenvalue: valeur propre
Eject (to): jecter; ejection: jection
Elaborate (to): laborer
Elderly: g; elderly people, the elderly: les personnes ges
Electronics: lectronique
Embankment: remblai
Emergency: urgence; emergency rescue: secours d'urgence; emergency rescue
system: systme de secours d'urgence; emergency ward: salle d'urgence, service des
urgences; emergency situation: situation d'urgence; emergency lane: bande d'arrt
d'urgence
Enact (to): promulguer (une loi)
Energy: nergie

Enforcement: rpression, application, contrle (de la loi); to enforce a measure: faire

respecter une mesure; to enforce a law: mettre une loi en application, faire respecter
une loi
Engine: moteur
Engineer: ingnieur; engineering: ingnierie; civil engineer: ingnieur en gnie civil,
ingnieur des travaux publics (approx.); traffic engineer: ingnieur circulation; road
engineer: ingnieur routier; transport engineer: ingnieur transports; road
engineering: ingnierie routire; transport engineering: ingnierie des transports;
traffic engineering: rgulation de la circulation (approx.); civil engineering: gnie
civil, travaux publics (approx.)
Environment: (l') environnement; contexte; Department of the Environment DoE
(Brit.): Ministre de l'Environnement; environmental impact: impact sur
l'environnement; cultural environment: contexte culturel
Equipment: quipement; Department of Equipment (Brit.): Ministre de
l'Equipement
Equivalent: quivalent
Ergonomics: ergonomie
Error: erreur; systematic error: erreur systmatique; human error: erreur humaine;
driver's error: erreur de conduite
Escape: fuite; to escape: s'chapper
Estate: proprit (terre); industrial estate: zone industrielle; council estate: zone
d'habitat HLM, grand ensemble HLM (approx.)
Estimate: estimation; to estimate: estimer; to under-estimate: sous-estimer
Evaluate (to): valuer; evaluation: evaluation; quantitative evaluation: evaluation
quantitative; qualitative evaluation: valuation qualitative; product evaluation:
valuation du produit, evaluation quantitative; process evaluation: valuation du
processus, evaluation qualitative; before-and-after evaluation: valuation avant-aprs;
evaluation procedure: mthode d'valuation, modalits d'valuation
Evasive: d'vitement; evasive action: vitement; evasive manoeuvre: manoeuvre
d'vitement

Evenness: uni; unevenness: dfaut d'uni

Exam: examen; to pass an exam: russir un examen
Examination: examen; medical examination: examen mdical
Example: exemple
Exhaust: pot d'chappement; exhaust fumes: gaz d'chappement
Exhaustive: exhaustif; exhaustivity: exhaustivit
Exhibition: exposition, salon
Exit: sortie; exit slip road: rampe de sortie; exit from carriageway: sortie de route,
sortie de chausse
Expect (to): s'attendre ; expectation: attente; esprance mathmatique
Expenditure: dpense(s)
Expenses: dpenses; supplementary expenses: surcrot de dpenses
Experience: exprience; experienced: expriment; professional experience:
exprience professionnelle
Experiment: exprience; experimental: exprimental; field experiment: exprience de
terrain; controlled experiment: tude exprimental-tmoin; experimental area: zone
exprimentale; experimental field: champ d'exprience
Explain (to): expliquer; explanation: explication; explanatory variable: variable
explicative
Explicit: explicite; explicitely: explicitement
Exposure: exposition; risk exposure: exposition au risque; exposure data: donnes
d'exposition
Expressway: voie express
Eye: oeil (pl.: yeux); eyesight: vision; eye movement: mouvement des yeux; one-eyed:
borgne

Face: figure, visage

Facility: dispositif, quipement; crossing facility: quipement de traverse; pedestrian
facility: quipement piton
Fact: fait; factual: factuel
Factor: facteur; factorial: factoriel; accident factor, accident-producing factor,
accident-prone factor (am.): facteur accidentogne; contributory factor: facteur actif;
human factor: facteur humain; stratifying factor: variable de stratification; factorial
analysis: analyse factorielle
Failure: chec
Fast: rapide; fast car: voiture rapide; fast lane: voie de gauche
Fatal: mortel; fatality: tu, mort; fatality rate: taux de tus; fatal accident: accident
mortel
Fatigue: fatigue (mc.)
Fault: faute; dfaut; faulty: dfectueux; faultless: sans faute; at fault: en faute
Fence: barrire, clture; safety fence: barrire de scurit; snow fence: pare-neige
Field: champ, domaine, terrain; field of action: champ d'action, domaine d'action; field
of vision: champ de vision; in the field: sur le terrain; field experiment: exprience de
terrain; field experience: exprience du terrain; field investigation: enqute sur le
terrain; field trial: essai en situation, en vraie grandeur
Figure: figure, chiffre
File: fichier; accident file: fichier d'accidents; comprehensive file: fichier exhaustif;
registration file: fichier des immatriculations
Fill (to): remplir; filling station: station-service
Filter: filtre; to filter: filtrer

Finance (to): financer; financing: financement

Finding(s): resultat
Fine: amende
Fire: feu, incendie; fire extinguisher: extincteur
First aid: premiers secours; secourisme
Fit: apte; fitness: aptitude (physique); driving fitness: aptitude la conduite
Flash (to): clignoter; flashing amber: orange clignotant
Flaw: dfaut, dysfonctionnement; flawless: sans dfaut
Flee (to): fuir, s'enfuir
Flood (to): inonder; flooding: inondation
Flow: dbit, flux; snow flow: coule de neige; free-flow traffic: circulation fluide;
peak traffic flow: trafic de pointe; off-peak traffic flow: trafic en heures creuses;
speed-flow relation: relation dbit-vitesse; flow-chart: organigramme
Fluctuation: fluctuation
Fly (to): fuir; voler, prendre l'avion; flyover: toboggan, autopont
Fog: brouillard; foglights: feux antibrouillards
Follow up (to): suivre; follow-up study: tude de suivi
Footpath: trottoir
Forbidden: interdit
Force: force; centrifugal force: force centrifuge; centripetal force: force centripte
Forecast: prvision; forecast (to): prdire, prvoir; weather forecast: bulletin
mtorologique; traffic forecast: prvisions de trafic

Form: formulaire; statistical form: formulaire statistique; standard form: formulaire

standardis; accident form: formulaire d'accident; to complete a form, to fill in a
form: remplir un formulaire
Formula: formule
Fracture: fracture
Fragile: fragile
Framework: cadre; conceptual framework: cadre conceptuel
Freedom: libert; degree of freedom: degr de libert
Freeway (am.): autoroute
Freeze (to): geler
Freight: cargaison; fret
Friction: frottement; friction coefficient: coefficient de frottement
Front: avant; frontage activities: activits riveraines; frontal impact: choc frontal
Frost: gel; glazed frost: verglas
Fuel: carburant
Function: fonction; functional: fonctionnel
Fund (to): financer; funding: financement; funds: fonds
Fundamental: fondamental
Furniture: meubles, mobilier; urban furniture: mobilier urbain
Furrow: sillon; ravine (approx.)

Gamble (to): jouer, parier; gambler: joueur

Game: jeu; child game: jeu d'enfant; to play a game: jouer une partie
Gap: crneau, intervalle; gap acceptance: prise de crneau
Garage: garage
Gas (am.): essence; gas-oil: gazole; gas station (am.): station-service
Gate: porte; gate effect: effet de porte
Gear: engrenage; gears: les vitesses (d'une voiture); to put in gear: mettre en prise,
passer une vitesse; gear-box: bote vitesses; first gear, second gear, etc.: premire,
deuxime, etc; reverse (gear): marche arrire
Geographer: gographe; geographical: gographique; geography: la geography
Geometrical: gomtrique; geometry: la gomtrie; geometric design (of the road):
gomtrie (de la route)
Glare (to): blouir
Goal: but, objectif, cible
Government: gouvernement, administration centrale; local government: municipalit
Grade: niveau; grade-separated interchange: changeur; grade-separated junction:
carrefour dnivel; grade-separated crossing: passage dnivel; grade-junction:
carrefour niveau; upwards grade: rampe
Gradient: cte, pente, rampe; dclivit
Grant: bourse, allocation
Graph: graphe, graphique; graphic: graphique; graphic representation: graphe,
reprsentation graphique

Gravel: gravier; gravel road: route gravillonne, route non revtue

Gripping: adhrence
Grooving: rainurage
Ground: sol; terrain; mountainous ground: terrain montagneux; playground: terrain
de jeu
Grow (to): crotre, augmenter; growth: augmentation; economic growth: croissance
Guardrail: glissire de scurit
Guidance: guidage; to guide: guider; guidelines: dossier-guide, manuel, directives;
guide-book: guide, manuel, dossier-guide; user's guide: manuel d'utilisation
Gulley: avaloir
Gutter: caniveau

Handicap: handicap
Hazard: danger; road hazard: point singulier; hazardous: dangereux
Head: tte; heading: en-tte; headline: titre; headway: distance libre l'avant;
headroom, head clearance: hauteur libre; head-rest: appuie-tte; headlight: phare;
dipped headlights: codes, feux de croisement; polarized headlight: phare polaris;
head-on collision: choc frontal
Health: sant; public health: sant publique; health services: services de sant;
community health care: soins de sant primaires; World Health Organization
(WHO): Organisation Mondiale de la Sant (OMS)
Heart: coeur; heart failure: crise cardiaque; to have a heart condition: tre cardiaque;
heart-beat: pouls
Height: hauteur
Helmet: casque
Highway (am.): route de rase campagne, route de liaison
Hill: colline; rampe; hilliness coefficient: coefficient de rampe
Hip: hanche
Hire: louer; car-hire: location de voiture
Histogram: histogramme
Historical: historique; history: histoire; historical review: historique
Hole: trou; pothole: nid-de-poule
Holiday: vacances
Home: domicile; Home Office (Brit.): Ministre de l'Intrieur

Homogeneity: homognit; homogenous: homogne

Hood (am.): capot
Horizontal: horizontal
Horn: avertisseur, klaxon; to horn: klaxonner
Hospital: hpital; to hospitalize: hospitaliser
Hour: heure; per hour, hourly: horaire, l'heure; hourly incidence: frquence horaire;
peak hour, rush hour: heure de pointe; off-peak hour: heure creuse
House: maison; household: mnage; household survey: enqute mnage
Human: humain; human factor: facteur humain
Hypothesis: hypothse; underlying hypothesis: hypothse sous-jacente; null
hypothesis: hypothse nulle

Ice: glace, verglas; icy: verglass; iced road: chausse verglasse; ice warning system:
avertisseur de verglas
Identification: dtection, dtermination, mise en vidence; to identify: dterminer,
identifier, dtecter, mettre en vidence; identification papers: papiers d'identit
Identity: identit
Illegal: interdit (par la loi); illegal behaviour: comportement infractionnel
Impact: choc, collision; impact; rear impact, rear-end impact: choc-arrire; frontal
impact: choc frontal; side impact: choc latral; resistance to impact: rsistance au
choc; environmental impact: impact sur l'environnement
Implement (to): mettre en oeuvre, raliser; implementation: mise en oeuvre
Implicit: implicite; implicitely: implicitement
Improve (to): amliorer; improvement: amlioration
Incentive: encourageant, incitateur, motivant; motivation, incitation; incentive
programme: programme incitateur
Income: revenu; income tax: impt sur le revenu
Increase: augmentation, accroissement; to increase: augmenter, crotre
Indemnity: indemnit
Index: indice; deformation index: indice de dformation
Indicate (to): indiquer; indicator: indicateur; safety indicator: indicateur de scurit;
traffic indicator: indicateur de circulation
Induce (to): induire; inducement: incitation; inductive inference: infrence inductive

Information: information; road-user information, public information: information

des usagers, du public; information campaign: campagne d'information
Inhabitant: habitant
Injection: injection, piqre
Injure (to): blesser; injury: bless, blessure, lsion; serious injury: bless grave; light
injury: bless lger; personal injury: blessure personne; minor injury: lsion
bnigne; moderate injury: lsion de gravit modre; severe injury: lsion grave;
multiple injury: polytraumatisme; internal injury: lsion interne
Insert (to): insrer
Institute: institut; National Institute for Transport and Safety Research: Institut
National de Recherche sur les Transports et leur Scurit (INRETS)
Instrument: instrument; instrumentation: instrumentation; optical instrument:
instrument d'optique
Insurance: assurance; car insurance: assurance automobile; insurance company:
compagnie d'assurance; insurance policy: police d'assurance
Integrate (to): intgrer; integration: intgration; integrated programme: programme
intgr; integrated system: systme intgr; traffic integration: intgration de la
circulation; integration process: processus d'intgration, dmarche intgrative
Interchange: changeur
Interest: intrt; interest rate: taux d'intrt
Interrogate (to): questionner
Intersect (to): croiser (se); intersection: croisement, intersection; cross intersection:
carrefour en croix; multi-legged intersection: intersection complexe, carrefour en
toile
Interval: intervalle; pause; confidence interval: intervalle de confiance
Interview: entretien; to interview: interroger; semi-directive interview: entretien
semi-directif
Inventory: inventaire; to draw an inventory: dresser l'inventaire

Investigate (to): enquter; investigation: enqute; investigator: enquteur;

investigation report: rapport d'enqute; investigation team: quipe d'enqute: to
carry out an investigation: mener une enqute; clinical investigation: tude clinique
Invest (to): investir; investment: investissement; investment costs: cots
d'investissement; investment outlay: dpense d'investissement
Involve (to): impliquer; involvment: implication
Island: lot; island nose: tte d'lot, musoir; directional island: lot directionnel; ghost
island: lot peint
Iteration: itration

J,K

Jack-knife (to): se mettre en portefeuille; jack-knifing: mise en portefeuille

Journey: voyage; trajet, dplacement (approx.); journey time: dure de trajet
Judge: juge; judgment: jugement
Junction: carrefour, intersection; T-junction: carrefour en T; Y-junction, fork
junction: carrefour en Y, fourche; three-legged junction: carrefour trois branches;
multi-legged junction: carrefour en toile; staggered junction: carrefour en
baonnette; signalized junction, light-controlled junction: carrefour feux;
uncontrolled junction: carrefour sans feux; grade-separated junction: carrefour
dnivel; grade-junction: carrefour niveau; junction layout: trac d'un carrefour;
junction approach: approche de carrefour; junction accident: accident en intersection
Kerb, curb (am.): bordure de trottoir; kerb delay: attente en bordure de trottoir; kerb
parking: stationnement longitudinal sur chausse
Key: cl, clef
Kill (to): tuer
Kilometre: kilomtre
Knee: genou; knee-cap: rotule
Know (to): savoir; know-how: savoir-faire; knowledge: connaissance, savoir

Laboratory: laboratoire; Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL):

Laboratoire des Transports et de la Recherche Routire
Labour: travail; force de travail; labourer: ouvrier, travailleur
Lamp-post: rverbre
Land: terres, terres cultives; sol; land slide: glissement de terrain
Landscape: paysage; landscaping: paysagisme; landscape engineer: paysagiste
Lane: voie, sentier; change of lane: changement de file; lane marking: marquage des
voies; bus lane: voie rserve aux autobus; cycle lane: bande cyclable; contra-flow
lane: voie contresens; emergency lane: bande d'arrt d'urgence; acceleration lane:
voie d'acclration; deceleration lane: voie de dclration; reversible lane: voie
banalisable; overtaking lane: voie de dpassement; climbing lane: voie supplmentaire
en rampe, voie montante pour vhicules lents; fast lane: voie de gauche; two-lane,
three-lane road: route deux voies, trois voies; waiting lane: file d'attente
Language: langage
Last (to): durer
Late: tard; to be late: tre en retard
Law: loi; traffic laws: code de la route
Lay-by: baie de stationnement, bas-ct
Lay-out: trac; lay-out plan: plan-masse
Leaflet: prospectus, papier d'information
Leak: fuite; to leak: fuire
Lecture: confrence, expos; lecturer: charg de cours; to give a lecture: faire un
expos, faire une confrence

Left: gauche; on the left, to the left, on the left hand side: gauche; to turn left, to
take a left turn: tourner gauche; left turn: tourne--gauche
Leg: branche d'intersection; three-legged junction: carrefour trois branches; multilegged junction: carrefour en toile
Legible: lisible; legibility: lisibilit
Lend (to): prter; moneylender: prteur
Level: niveau; level-crossing: passage niveau; tolerance level: niveau de tolerance;
performance level: niveau de performances; protection level: niveau de protection
Liability: responsabilit; to be liable for: tre responsable de, rpondre de
Library: bibliothque, documentation; photographic library: photothque
Licence: permis, autorisation; to licence, to license: dlivrer un permis; driving
licence: permis de conduire; licence withdrawal: retrait de permis; licence
cancellation: annulation de permis; licence suspension: suspension de permis;
learner's licence: permis provisoire d'apprentissage la conduite; probationary
licence: permis probatoire; provisional licence: permis provisoire; graduated licence:
permis progressif
Light: feu, lumire; headlights: phares, feux de route; dipped lights, dipped
headlights: feux de croisement; parking lights: veilleuses; side lights: feux de
position; foglight: antibrouillard; warning lights: feux de dtresse; brake light: feu de
stop; traffic light: feu de signalisation; red light: feu rouge; green light: feu vert;
traffic light cycle: cycle de feux; to cross against the lights: traverser au rouge;
lighting: clairage; street lighting: clairage urbain, clairage public
Likely: vraisemblable; likelyhood: vraisemblance; maximum likelyhood: maximum
de vraisemblance
Limit: limite; limitation: limitation; speed limit: limite de vitesse, limitation de vitesse
Line: file; ligne; lines for future research: directions pour la recherche future; solid
white line: ligne blanche continue; broken white line: ligne blanche discontinue; stop
line: ligne d'arrt, marquage de stop
Linear: linaire; log-linear model: modle log-linaire

Link: section courante; liaison; to link: relier; link road: route secondaire, route de
liaison; to link traffic signals: coordonner des feux: link accident: accident en section
courante
Load: charge, cargaison; to load: charger; overload, excess load: surcharge; axle load:
charge par essieu; wheel load: charge par roue; load shifting: renversement de la
cargaison
Loan: prt
Local: local; local government: municipalit; local authority: collectivit locale
Locate (to): localiser; location; point, site, localisation, lieu; accident location: point
d'accident, localisation des accidents
Lock (to): bloquer; fermer clef; lock: serrure; locked wheel: roue bloque; antilocking brakes: freins anti-bloquants
Loose (to): perdre; loss: perte; to loose control: perdre le contrle; loss of control:
perte de contrle
Lorry: camion, poids-lourd; articulated lorry: semi-remorque; lorry driver:
camionneur, routier, chauffeur de camion, chauffeur de poids-lourd
Lubricant: lubrifiant; lubrication: lubrification
Luggage: bagages
Luminance: luminance; luminous: lumineux; luminous intensity: intensit lumineuse

Maintenance: entretien; mise jour

Make: marque (de vhicule)
Malfunction: dysfonctionnement
Management: gestion; to manage: grer, diriger; manager: directeur; traffic
management: gestion du trafic, de la circulation; urban management: gnie urbain,
amnagement urbain (approx.); transport management: gestion des transports
Mandatory: obligatoire
Manoeuvre, maneuver (am.): manoeuvre; evasive manoeuvre: manoeuvre
d'vitement; turning manoeuvre: mouvement tournant
Manpower: force de travail
Manual: manuel, dossier-guide; operating manual: manuel d'utilisation
Manufacture (to): fabriquer; manufactured to standards: fabriqu aux normes; carmanufacturer: constructeur automobile
Map: carte, plan; to map: dresser une carte, faire le plan; road map: carte routire
Mark: trace; ripping marks: traces de ripage; braking marks: traces de freinage;
skidding marks: traces de drapage
Market: march
Marking: marquage; road-marking: marquage, signalisation horizontale; side
marking, edge marking: marquage de rive; central-line marking: marquage central
Mast: mt; lighting mast: poteau d'clairage
Material: matriau, matire; hazardous materials: matires dangereuses
Mathematical: mathmatique; mathematics: les mathmatiques

Matrix: matrice; origine-destination matrix: matrice origine-destination

Mean: moyenne, moyen; mean of conveyance, transport mean: moyen de transport;
mean value: valeur moyenne; regression to the mean: rgression vers la moyenne;
arithmetic mean: moyenne arithmtique
Measure: mesure; to measure: mesurer; measurement: mesure, mensuration; safety
measure: mesure de scurit; remedial
measure: contremesure; protective
measure: mesure de protection; traffic restraint measure: mesure de restriction du
trafic; speed restraint measure: mesure de rduction des vitesses; restraint measure:
mesure dissuasive; regulatory measure: mesure rglementaire; to enforce a measure:
faire respecter une mesure
Mechanic: mcanicien: mechanical: mcanique (adj.); mechanics: la mcanique
Median: mdiane; median (am.): terre-plein central
Medical: mdical; to medicalize: mdicaliser; medicine: mdicament; medical
examination: examen mdical; medical sciences: mdecine; medical care; soins
mdicaux; medical treatment: traitement mdical
Meeting: runion; meeting room: salle de runion
Mental: mental; mental load: charge mentale; mental block: blocage (mental); mental
representation: reprsentation mentale
Meteorological: mtorologique; meteorology: mtorologie; meteorological data:
donnes mtorologiques
Method: mthode; methodology: mthodologie; least square method: mthode du
moindre carr
Metropolitan area: aire mtropolitaine
Migration: migration; accident migration: report d'accidents
Mile: mille (1.6 km approx.); milestone: borne kilomtrique; jalon; mileage:
kilomtrage (parcouru)
Minister: ministre; ministry: ministre
Minutes: procs-verbal, compte-rendu

Mobile: mobile; mobility: mobilit

Mode: mode; modal split: choix modal; modal transfer: transfert modal
Model: modle; trip assignment model: modle d'affectation du trafic; trip
distribution model: modle de distribution du trafic; probabilistic model: modle
probabiliste; log-linear model: modle log-lineaire
Monitor (to): effectuer un suivi
Moped: cyclomoteur; moped rider: cyclomotoriste
Motion: mouvement; in slow motion: au ralenti
Motivate (to): motiver; motivation: motivation
Motorcycle, motorbike (am.): motocyclette; motorbike rider: motocycliste, motard;
motorcyclist: motocycliste
Motorisation: motorisation; motorised: motoris; motorist: automobiliste; motorway:
autoroute
Move (to): bouger, (se) dplacer; movement: mouvement; eye movement: mouvement
des yeux
Mud: boue; mudflap: pare-boue
Multi-disciplinary: pluridisciplinaire; multi-disciplinary team: quipe
pluridisciplinaire; multi-disciplinary research: recherche pluridisciplinaire
Multi-sectoral: plurisectoriel, intersectoriel, pluridisciplinaire (approx.); multisectoral approach: approche plurisectorielle; multisectoral safety programme:
programme de scurit plurisectoriel
Municipal: municipal; municipality: municipalit, ville

N,O

Neighbourhood: voisinage, quartier (approx.)

Network: rseau; road network: rseau routier; pedestrian network: rseau
pitonnier; two-wheeler network: rseau deux-roues, rseau cyclable; research
network: rseau de recherche
Noise: bruit; rolling noise: bruit de roulement; noise barrier: cran anti-bruit
Normal: normal; normal distribution: loi normale
Nuisance: nuisances
Number: nombre; numerical: numrique; numerous: nombreux
Nurse: infirmier(-re)
Objective: objectif
Observation: observation; to observe: observer; observer: observateur; observation
campaign, observation study: campagne d'observation; sequential observation:
observation squentielle
Obstacle: obstacle; roadside obstacle: obstacle latral
Occupy (to): occuper; car-occupant: passager
Offence: infraction; offender: contrevenant; traffic offence: infraction au code de la
route; undictable offence: dlit
Oil: ptrole; gas-oil: gazole
Old: vieux, g
One-eyed: borgne
One-way: sens unique; one-way street: rue sens unique; one-way system: rseau de
sens-uniques

Open: ouvrir, s'ouvrir; to burst open: s'ouvrir brutalement, s'ouvrir spontanment

Operation: exploitation; opration; operational: oprationnel; operating manual:
manuel d'utilisation; operations research: recherche oprationnelle
Opinion: opinion; public opinion: opinion publique
Optical: optique; optics: (l')optique; optical instrument: instrument d'optique
Organisation, organization: organisation; organisme; to organise: organiser;
organising committee: comit d'organisation; organisation chart: organigramme;
World Health Organization (WHO): Organisation Mondiale de la Sant;
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD): Organisation
pour la Coopration et le Dveloppement Economiques (OCDE)
Outlay: dpense
Output: rsultat, sortie de donnes
Outskirts: banlieue, quartiers pri-urbains
Overheating: surchauffe
Overload: surcharge; to overload: surcharger
Overpass: passage suprieur
Overtake (to): dpasser, doubler; overtaking: dpassement; overtaking lane: voie de
dpassement; overtaking sight distance: visibilit de dpassement

P,Q

Paper: papier; article, communication; to give a paper, to read a paper: faire une
communication
Parameter: paramtre; dynamical parameter: paramtre dynamique
Park (to): stationner, se garer; park: parc; parking: stationnement; parking space:
place de stationnement; car-park, parking lot: parc de stationnement; multi-storey
car-park: parc de stationnement en silo; underground car-park: parking souterrain;
park-and-ride: parc de stationnement de dissuasion; on-street parking: stationnement
sur chausse; kerb parking: stationnement longitudinal sur chausse; angle parking:
stationnement en pi; off-street parking: stationnement hors chausse; illegal parking,
parking prohibited: stationnement interdit; parking meter: parcmtre; parking light
(veh.): veilleuse
Part: partie; rle; to play a part: jouer un rle
Passenger: passager; passenger car unit (PCU): unit voiture particulire (UVP);
front seat passenger: passager avant; rear seat passenger: passager arrire
Path: itinraire, cheminement; chemin, sentier; footpath: itinraire pitonnier,
cheminement; pedestrian path: cheminement pitonnier; cycle path: itinraire
cyclable; bridle path: piste cavalire
Patrol: patrouille; school crossing patrol: patrouille scolaire
Pause: pause
Pavement: trottoir, chausse (am.)
Peak: pointe; peak hour: heure de pointe; off-peak hour: heure creuse; peak traffic
flow: trafic de pointe; off-peak traffic (flow): trafic en heures creuses
Pedestrian: piton; pedestrian crossing: passage piton; pedestrian bridge,
pedestrian overpass: passerelle; pedestrian underpass: souterrain piton; pedestrian
street, pedestrian mall (am.): rue pitonne; pedestrian precinct: zone pitonne;
pedestrian network: rseau pitonnier; pedestrian facility: quipement piton

Pedestrianize (to): pdestrianiser, rserver aux pitons

pedestrianized area: zone pitonnire
Pelican crossing: passage-piton bouton-poussoir (type brit.)
Penalty: peine, pnalit, sanction
Perceive (to): percevoir; perception: perception
Percentage: pourcentage
Perform (to): raliser, accomplir; performance: performance(s); performance level:
niveau de performances; performance requirements: niveau d'exigence fonctionnelle
Period: priode
Periodical: priodique
Person: personne; personal: personnel (adj.); personality: personnalit
Petrol: essence
Phase: phase, priode; learner phase: priode d'apprentissage; probationary phase:
priode probatoire
Phenomenon: phnomne
Photograph: photographie; photographer: photographe; photography: la
photographie
Physical: physique; physicist: physicien; physics: la physique
Physician: mdecin
Physiological: physiologique; physiologist: physiologiste; physiology: la physiologie
Pilot: pilote; pilot programme: programme-pilote, programme exprimental; pilot
town: ville-pilote; pilot project: projet-pilote
Plan: plan; to plan: planifier; planner: planificateur, urbaniste; planning:
planification, urbanisme; traffic (flow) plan: plan de circulation; land-use plan: plan
d'occupation des sols; lay-out plan: plan-masse; structure plan, master plan: schma
directeur; urban planner, town planner, city planner: urbaniste; urban planning,

town planning, city planning: urbanisme; regional planning: planification rgionale,

amnagement du territoire (approx.); transport planning: planification des transports
Plane: plan (math.)
Plate: plaque; number plate: plaque d'immatriculation
Play (to): jouer; playground: terrain de jeu; to play a game: jouer une partie; to play a
part: jouer un rle
Plough (to): labourer; to plough up: raviner
Point: point; demerit point system: permis points
Polarization: polarisation; polarized headlights: phares polariss
Pole: poteau; lighting pole: poteau d'clairage
Police: (la) police; policeman, policewoman: policier(-re); police constable: agent de
police
Policy: (une) politique; insurance policy: police d'assurance; policy-maker: dcideur
Politician: politicien; politics: la politique
Poll: sondage; opinion poll: sondage d'opinions
Pollution: pollution; to pollute: polluer; air pollution: pollution atmosphrique
Post: poteau; sign-post: poteau indicateur; lamp-post: rverbre; marker post: jalon,
balise; marker post for snow clearing: jalon neige
Post-mortem: autopsie
Pothole: nid-de-poule
Practice: la pratique; to practise: pratiquer; mettre en pratique; practitioner: praticien,
professionnel; normal practice, current practice: pratique courante
Predict (to): prdire
Present: prsent, actuel

Press (the): (la) presse

Prevention: prvention; preventive: prventif; accident prevention: prvention des
accidents, action de scurit; preventive measure: mesure de prvention; preventive
safety: scurit prventive
Principle: principe, base de la mthode
Print: impression; to print: imprimer
Priority: priorit; priority rate: taux de priorit; priority ranking: ordre de priorit;
priority rule: rgle de priorit
Probable: probable; probability: probabilit; probabilistic model: modle probabiliste
Probationary: probatoire; probationary phase: priode probatoire
Problem: problme; safety problem: problme de scurit; safety problems:
inscurit; to solve a problem: rsoudre un problme
Procedure: mthode, procd, dmarche; test procedure: mthode d'essai
Process: processus, dmarche; to process: traiter; process evaluation: valuation du
processus, valuation qualitative; decision process: processus dcisionnel; computer
processing: traitement par ordinateur, traitement informatique; data processing:
traitement des donnes; word processor: traitement de texte
Product: produit; product evaluation: valuation du produit, valuation quantitative
Profession: profession; professional: professionnel (qualifi); cadre (approx.);
professional training: formation professionnelle; traffic safety professional:
professionnel de la scurit routire; self-employed professional: membre de
profession librale; high-ranking professional: cadre de haut niveau
Professor: professeur d'universit
Profit: bnfice, profit; profitable: rentable; profitability: rentabilit
Programme, program (am.): programme; research programme: programme de
recherche; work programme: programme de travail; safety programme: programme
de scurit; integrated programme: programme intgr; incentive programme:
programme incitateur; education programme: programme d'ducation,
d'enseignement; training programme: programme de formation; pilot programme,

demonstration programme: programme-pilote, programme exprimental; computer

programme: programme informatique
Progress: progrs, avance; to progress: progresser; in progress: en cours
Prohibited: interdit
Project: projet; research project: projet de recherche; pilot project: projet-pilote
Proof: preuve, preuve
Proportion: proportion; proportional: proportionnel
Proposal: proposition
Protect (to): protger; protection: protection; protective: protecteur; protection level:
niveau de protection; protective device: dispositif de protection, quipement de
protection
Prove (to): dmontrer
Provisional: provisoire
Psychological: psychologique; psychologist: psychologue; psychology: la psychologie;
psycho-sociology: psycho-sociologie; driver psychology: psychologie de la conduite
Public: public; public transport: transports collectifs, transports en commun; public
works: travaux publics
Publicity: publicit
Puncture: crevaison
Quantify (to): quantifier
Questionnaire: questionnaire; to circulate a questionnaire: faire circuler, diffuser un
questionnaire
Queue: queue, file d'attente; to queue up: faire la queue
Quick: rapide; quickly: vite

Radar: radar
Radius: rayon; curve radius: rayon de courbure
Rail: rail; railway: train, chemin de fer
Rain: pluie; rainfall intensity: intensit des pluies, pluviomtrie; rainy: pluvieux
Ramp: rampe; cte; access ramp: rampe d'accs
Random: alatoire, au hasard; random process: processus alatoire; random sample:
chantillon au hasard; random check: contrle alatoire
Range: rayon d'action; dispersion
Rank (to): ordonner
Rate: taux; taxe foncire; to rate: estimer; accident rate: taux d'accident; priority
rate: taux de priorit; rate of (economic) return, profit rate: taux de rentabilit; first
year rate of return: taux de rentabilit immdiate; internal rate of return: taux de
rentabilit interne; interest rate: taux d'intrt; discount rate: taux d'actualisation;
bank lending rate: taux de crdit bancaire; prevailing rate: taux en vigueur; vehicle
occupancy rate: taux d'occupation des vhicules; motorization rate, car-ownership
rate: taux de motorisation; alcohol rate: taux d'alcoolmie; blood alcohol rate: taux
d'alcool dans le sang, taux d'alcoolmie sanguine
Ratio: rapport, ratio
Rat run: itinraire d'vitement (approx.)
Ravine: ravin
Read (to): lire; reader: lecteur; reading: lecture
Real: rel

Rear: arrire; rear-view mirror: rtroviseur; rear light: feu rouge arrire; rear
window: lunette arrire
Reckon (to): comptabiliser, quantifier
Recidivist: rcidiviste
Recommend (to): recommander; recommendation: recommandation
Record: enregistrement, dossier; recorded: enregistr, rapport; records system (am.):
fichier, base de donnes; accident record: dossier d'accident, enregistrement
d'accident; photo records: photothque
Reduce (to): rduire, diminuer; reduction: rduction, diminution
Reference: rfrence, de rfrence; reference group: groupe tmoin; reference paper:
papier de rfrence, papier de base
Reflect (to): rflchir; reflectorized material: matriau rflchissant
Refuge: refuge
Register (to): immatriculer; registered vehicle: vhicule immatricul; registration:
immatriculation; registration file: fichier des immatriculations
Region: rgion; regional: rgional; Regional Rapid Transit System: Rseau Express
Rgional (RER)
Regression: rgression; regression line: droite de rgression; regression-to-the-mean:
rgression vers la moyenne
Regulation: rglement; regulations: rglementation; safety regulations:
rglementation de scurit; regulatory measure: mesure rglementaire
Rehabilitation: rhabilitation
Reiteration: itration; to reiterate: rpter; reiterative process: processus itratif
Reliability: fiabilit; reliable: fiable
Remark: remarque; remarkable: remarquable
Remote: loign; remote control: tlcommande, commande distance

Rent: loyer; to rent: louer; car-rental: location de voiture

Repair: rparation; to repair: rparer; repair shop: atelier de rparation
Repay (to): rembourser
Repeatable: reproductible; to repeat: rpter; repeater-lamp: rptiteur piton,
rptiteur de feu
Report: rapport; reported: rapport; accident report: procs-verbal d'accident;
investigation report: rapport d'enqute; activity report: compte-rendu d'activit; draft
report: rapport provisoire; comprehensive report: rapport global; full report: rapport
complet, exhaustif; reported accident: accident rapport
Representation: reprsentation; representative: reprsentatif; representativity:
reprsentativit; representative sample: chantillon reprsentatif; mental
representation: reprsentation mentale
Reproducible: reproductible; reproducibility: reproductibilit; to reproduce:
reproduire, rpter
Requirement: exigence
Rescue: secours; rescue team: quipe de secours; emergency rescue: secours
d'urgence; emergency rescue system: les secours d'urgence, systme de secours
d'urgence
Research: recherche; applied research: recherche applique; safety research:
recherche scuritaire; accident research: recherche accidentologique; operations
research: recherche oprationnelle; research team: quipe de recherche; research
programme, research program (am.): programme de recherche; research project:
projet de recherche; research report: rapport de recherche; current research,
research in progress: recherche en cours
Resident: resident; residential: rsidentiel; residential area: zone rsidentielle;
residential street: rue rsidentielle; residential neighbourhood: quartier rsidentiel
Resolve (to): rsoudre, se rsoudre (); to resolve a conflict: rsoudre un conflit
Responsible: responsable; responsibility: responsabilit; to be responsible for: tre
responsable de

Rest: repos, pause; to rest: se reposer

Restrain (to): contraindre, restreindre; restraint: restriction, contrainte; traffic
restraint measure: mesure de restriction du trafic; speed restraint measure: mesure
de rduction des vitesses; speed restraint: ralentisseur; restraint system: dispositif de
retenue; passive restraint system (am.): dispositif de retenue par sac gonflable
Result: rsultat; full results: rsultats complets, ensemble des rsultats
Retroreflection: rtrorflexion; retroreflective: rtrorflchissant; retroreflective
material: matriau rtrorflchissant; retroreflective stud: plot rtrorflchissant;
retroreflective device: dispositif rtro-rflchissant; retroreflector: catadioptre
Return: retour; financial return: rentabilit financire; rate of (economic) return:
taux de rentabilit; first year rate of return: taux de rentabilit immdiate; internal
rate of return; taux de rentabilit interne
Reverse: marche arrire; to go in reverse: aller en marche arrire; to put into reverse:
se mettre en marche arrire
Review: inventaire; to review: passer en revue, dresser l'inventaire; historical review:
historique
Ride (to): aller cheval; conduire (un deux-roues); to ride a motorcycle: conduire une
moto, circuler moto; to ride a bicycle: aller en bicyclette; moped rider:
cyclomotoriste; motorbike rider: motard
Right: droite; correct; droit; right-of-way: emprise; priorit; on the right, to the right,
on the right hand side: droite; to turn right, to take a right turn: tourner droite;
right turn: tourne--droite
Ripping: ripage; ripping marks: traces de ripage
Risk: risque; high risk situation: situation haut risque; to be at risk: courir un risque;
risk exposure: exposition au risque; risk compensation: compensation du risque; risk
taking: prise de risque; under controlled risk: risque constant (approx.)
Road: route; roads: (la) route, (les) routes, voirie; road safety: scurit routire; trunk
road: route de liaison, voirie primaire; access road: route de desserte locale, voirie
tertiaire; feeder road, distributor road, secondary road, link road: route secondaire
(approx.); service road, frontage road (am.): contre-alle; slip road: bretelle; exit slip
road: rampe de sortie; entry slip road: rampe d'accs; through road: route de transit,
traverse; ring road: rocade; rural road: route de rase-campagne; road marking:

marquage, signalisation horizontale; road signing: signalisation verticale; slippery

road: chausse glissante; iced road: chausse verglasse; wet road: chausse mouille;
gravel road: route non revtue; dirt road: route en terre, route non revtue; paved
road: route revtue; single-carriageway road: route chausse unique; dualcarriageway road: route chausses spares; two-lane, three-lane road: route deux
voies, trois voies; road section: tronon de route; adverse road design: mauvais trac
(de route); road closure: mise en cul-de-sac; road works: chantier; road stud: plot
Roadside: bas-ct, partie latrale de la route; roadside obstacle: obstacle latral
Road-user: usager (de la route); unprotected road-user, vulnerable road-user:
usager vulnrable
Rollover: retournement, tonneau
Roof: toit; roof-rack: galerie de toit
Room: espace, place; room available for a manoeuvre: espace disponible pour une
manoeuvre; headroom: heuteur libre
Roughness: rugosit
Roundabout: (carrefour) giratoire, rond-point
Route: itinraire; route signing: jalonnement; bus route: itinraire d'autobus;
pedestrian route: itinraire pitonnier; cycle route: itinraire cyclable
Rule: rgle; safety rule: rgle de scurit
Run (to): courir; to run away: fuir; on the run: en fuite
Rural: rural; rural area: rase-campagne; rural site: point en rase-campagne; rural
network: rseau de rase-campagne; rural road: route de rase-campagne
Rut: ornire; rutting: ornirage

Safe: sr; safe behaviour: un comportement sr; a safe vehicle: un vhicule sr

Safety: scurit; road safety, traffic safety: scurit routire; safety diagnosis:
diagnostic de scurit; safety action: action de scurit; safety measures: mesures de
scurit; safety programme: programme de scurit; safety professional:
professionnel de la scurit routire; integrated safety: scurit intgre; built-in
safety: scurit intgre (par construction); safety device: quipement de scurit,
amnagement de scurit; safety improvement: amnagement de scurit (approx.);
safety rule: rgle de scurit; safety regulations: rglementation de scurit; safety
campaign: campagne de scurit; safety education: ducation de scurit,
enseignement de la scurit; safety problem: problme de scurit; safety problems:
inscurit; subjective safety: scurit subjective; safety fence; barrire de scurit
Sample: chantillon; random sample: chantillon au hasard; undisturbed sample:
chantillon non remani; stratified sample: chantillon stratifi; sample survey:
enqute par sondage; bootstrap sampling: rplication d'chantillon; blood sample:
prise de sang
Saturation: saturation
Save (to): sauver, pargner; life-saving: qui peut sauver des vies; to save an accident:
viter (conomiser) un accident; saving bank: caisse d'pargne
Scale: chelle; severity scale: chelle de gravit, de svrit; scale of injury severity:
indice de gravit des lsions; on a large scale: grande chelle; on a small scale:
petite chelle; full scale: en vraie grandeur
Scheme: projet; mutually exclusive schemes: projets incompatibles; training scheme:
plan de formation
School: cole; schoolboy, schoolgirl: colier(-re); school teacher: matre d'cole;
school programme: programme scolaire; school entrance: entre d'cole; school
crossing patrol: patrouille scolaire
Sciences: sciences; scientific: scientifique; scientist: savant; applied sciences: sciences
appliques; human sciences; sciences humaines; computer sciences: informatique;
computer scientist: informaticien
Scope: champ d'application

Screen: cran; smoke screen: cran de fume

Season: saison; season dependant: saisonnier
Seat: sige; seat belt: ceinture de scurit; inertia reel seat belt: ceinture de scurit
enrouleur; back seat: sige arrire; front seat: sige avant
Section: section, coupe; longitudinal section: profil en long; cross section: profil en
travers; road section: tronon de route
See (to): voir
Segregate (to): sgrguer; segregation: sgrgation; segregated lane: voie en site
propre
Seminar: sminaire; training seminar: sminaire de formation
Sequence: suite; sequential: squentiel
Series: srie(s); time series: srie chronologique; convergent series: srie convergente
Set: ensemble
Severe: grave; severity: gravit; accident severity: gravit de l'accident, des accidents
Shop: commerce, magasin, boutique; to shop: faire des achats; shopkeeper:
commerant; shopper: client, acheteur; shopping centre: centre commercial; shopping
street: rue commerante; shopping area: zone commerante; shopping arcade: galerie
commerante
Shoulder: bas-ct, accotement; hard shoulder: accotement stabilis, bande d'arrt
d'urgence
Sidewalk (am.): trottoir
Sign: signe; to sign: indiquer; signing: signalisation; road sign: panneau routier,
panneau de signalisation; road signs: signalisation routire; warning sign: signal de
danger; stop sign: panneau stop; yield sign: panneau cdez le passage; prohibitory
sign: signal d'interdiction; mandatory sign: signal de prescription, d'obligation; to
sign-post: indiquer (par panneaux); route signing: jalonnement; advance signing:
prsignalisation; advance direction signing: prslection; direction signing:
signalisation de direction, jalonnement; road works signing: signalisation de chantier

Signal: signal, poteau indicateur; to signal: signaler, faire des signes; signal-light: feu
de signalisation; linked traffic signals: feux coordonns; fixed-time signals: feux
cycle fixe; acoustic signal: signal sonore
Signalize (to): implanter des feux
Significant: significatif
Silencer: silencieux
Simulate (to): simuler; simulation: simulation; simulator: simulateur
Site: site, lieu, point; accident site: lieu d'accident; on site: sur les lieux; rural site:
point en rase-campagne; urban site: point en milieu urbain; building site: chantier
Sketch: esquisse, schma
Skid (to): draper; skidding: drapage; glissance; skid resistance: adhrence; antiskid surfacing: revtement anti-drapant, revtement haute-adhrence; skidding
marks: traces de drapage
Skills: habilet, aptitude(s), adresse; skilled: qualifi; driving skills: aptitudes la
conduite
Slide: boulement; land slide: glissement de trrain
Slip (to): glisser; slippery: glissant; slippery road: chausse glissante
Slope: pente, talus
Slow: lent; to slow down: ralentir
Smoke: fume; smoke screen: cran de fume
Snow: neige; fresh snow: neige frache; compacted snow: neige tasse; snow flow:
coule de neige; snowdrift: congre; layer of snow: couche de neige; snow fence:
pare-neige; snowplough: chasse-neige; snow clearing: dneigement; marker post for
snow clearing: jalon neige
Sociologist: sociologue; sociology: sociologie; psycho-sociology: psycho-sociologie
Software: logiciel

Solution: solution; to solve: rsoudre, trouver la solution; to solve a problem: rsoudre

un problme
Sort: catgorie; to sort out: trier; sorting: tri
Space: espace, place; spacing: espacement; residual space: espace interstitiel; survival
space: espace rsiduel, espace de survie; parking space: place de stationnement;
space-sharing: intgration du trafic, banalisation de la voirie; multidimensional space:
espace pluri-dimensionnel
Spare: pice dtache; spare wheel: roue de secours
Speed: vitesse; speed distribution: histogramme des vitesses; mean speed, average
speed: vitesse moyenne; spot speed: vitesse instantane; design speed: vitesse de base
(pour l'infrastructure); top speed: vitesse de pointe; mean journey speed: vitesse
moyenne de dplacement; speed measurement: mesure de vitesse; speed limit: limite
de vitesse, limitation de vitesse; speed reduction: limitation de la vitesse; speed
reducing measure: mesure de limitation de vitesse; speed restraint: ralentisseur;
speed hump: ralentisseur, dos d'ne ralentisseur; speed-flow relation: relation dbitvitesse; speedometer: compteur de vitesse
Spend (to): dpenser; spending: dpenses
Spillage: fuite; fuel spillage: fuite de carburant
Sponsor: financeur; to sponsor: financer, patronner
Spot: point; blackspot: point noir; on the spot: sur le champ, sur les lieux; dead on the
spot: mort sur le coup
Spread: dispersion
Square: carr; place; least square method: mthode des moindres carrs
Staff: personnel
Stagger (to): marcher en zig-zags; staggering: chicane; dcaler; staggered junction:
carrefour en baonnette
Standard: norme; to manufacture to standards: fabriquer aux normes; standard
deviation: cart-type; standardized: normalis

State: tat
Station: gare; petrol station, filling station: station-service
Statistical: statistique (adj.); statistician: statisticien(ne); statistics: les statistiques, la
statistique; descriptive statistics: statistique descriptive; statistical data: donnes
statistiques; accident statistics: statistiques d'accidents
Steering: direction; steering-wheel: volant; steering committee: comit de direction
Step: marche; pas; step-by-step: pas--pas
Stimulate (to): stimuler
Stop: arrt, pause; to stop: arrter, s'arrter; stop sign: panneau stop; stop line: ligne
d'arrt, marquage de stop; bus stop: arrt-bus; stopping distance: distance d'arrt
Store (to): stocker; data storage: stockage des donnes; storage capacity: capacit de
stockage
Story: (une) histoire
Straight: droit; straight on, straight ahead: tout droit
Street: rue, voie urbaine; residential street: rue rsidentielle; one-way street: rue
sens unique; street closure: fermeture de rue, mise en impasse
Stress: contrainte; to stress; mettre l'accent (sur), souligner
Strip: bande; rumble strips: bandes bruyantes; central strip: bande centrale, rserve
centrale
Structure: structure; ouvrage d'art; structural: structurel; structural aggressivity:
agressivit (d'un vhicule)
Study: tude, recherche; safety study: tude de scurit; accident study: tude
d'accidents; behavioural study: tude de comportements; statistical study: tude
statistique; epidemiological study: tude pidmiologique; research study: recherche;
experimental study: tude exprimentale; field study: tude sur le terrain; case study:
tude de cas
Subject: sujet; subjective: subjectif; subjective safety: scurit subjective

Subsidence: affaissement
Subsidy: subvention
Suburb: banlieue; suburban: banlieusard
Subway: passage souterrain
Succeed (to): russir; success: russite; successful: couronn de succs, qui a russi
Summary: rsum
Sun: soleil; sunrise: aurore; sunset: coucher de soleil
Superelevation: dvers
Supervise (to): surveiller; supervised driving: conduite accompagne
Support: assistance
Survey: enqute, sondage; detailed accident survey: enqute dtaille d'accidents;
household survey: enqute mnage; origin-destination survey: enqute originedestination; traffic surveyor: enquteur
Surface: surface; surfacing: surfaage, revtement; surface dressing: enduit
superficiel de chausse ; anti-skid surfacing: revtement anti-drapant; deteriorated
surfacing: chausse dgrade; wall-to-wall surfacing: pavage de mur mur, traitement
de chausse de mur mur
System: systme; systematic: systmatique; alarm system, warning system: dispositif
d'alerte, systme d'alerte; restraint system: dispositif de retenue; air-bag system:
dispositif de retenue par sac gonflable; bus system: rseau d'autobus; rapid transit
system: rseau de transport express; one-way system: rseau de sens-uniques; system
approach: approche systme; integrated system: systme intgr; systematic error:
erreur systmatique

Table: table; tableau (de donnes); to tabulate: faire des tableaux; two-way table:
tableau double entre; to cross-tabulate data: croiser des donnes
Tachograph: enregistreur de vitesse
Tank: rservoir
Tar: goudron
Target: cible, enjeu, objectif; safety target: cible pour l'action de scurit, enjeu de
scurit (approx.)
Task: tche; to perform a task: accomplir une tche
Taxi: taxi; taximeter: taximtre; taxi driver: chauffeur de taxi; urban taxi: taxi-ville;
rural taxi: taxi-brousse (approx.)
Teach (to): enseigner; teacher: enseignant; teaching: enseignement; school teacher:
matre d'cole; primary school teacher: instituteur; secondary school teacher:
professeur
Team: quipe; multidisciplinary team: quipe pluridisciplinaire; investigation team:
quipe d'enqute; rescue team: quipe de secours; research team: quipe de recherche
Temporary: temporaire, provisoire; temporary arrangement: amnagement
provisoire
Term: terme; in the short term: court terme; in the medium term: moyen terme;
in the long term: long terme
Test: test, essai; to test: tester, mettre l'preuve; test-track: banc d'essai; crash-test,
impact-test: essai de choc; blood test: prise de sang, analyse de sang
Time: temps; fois; dure; timetable: emploi du temps, horaire, calendrier; timeschedule: horaire, chancier; time series: srie temporelle; to be on time: tre
l'heure; time-lapse camera: camra squentielle; journey time, travel time: dure de
trajet; reaction time: temps de raction; fixed-time signals: feux cycle fixe

Tired: fatigu; tiredness: fatigue

Title: titre
Thaw: dgel
Theoretical: thorique; theory: thorie
Thesis: thse
Third world: tiers-monde
Threshold: seuil
Tolerance: tolrance; tolerance limit: limite de tolrance; compliance with tolerance
limits: respect des limites de tolrance
Toll: page
Tool: outil
Tourism: tourisme; tourist: touriste; package tour: voyage organis
Tow (to): remorquer; in tow: en remorque
Town: ville; town technical services: services techniques municipaux; town police:
police municipale
Track: piste; tracking: ornirage; test track: banc d'essai, piste d'essai; cycle track:
piste cyclable
Traffic: circulation, trafic; traffic safety: scurit routire; traffic management:
gestion de la circulation; real time traffic management: gestion de la circualtion en
temps rel; traffic engineering: rgulation de la circulation (approx.); traffic (flow)
plan: plan de circulation; traffic flow: flux de circulation, volume de circulation;
traffic volume: volume de circulation; traffic stream: courant de circulation; traffic
mix: composition du trafic; light traffic, free-flow traffic: circulation fluide; heavy
traffic: circulation dense; peak traffic (flow): trafic de pointe; off-peak traffic (flow):
trafic en heures creuses; average daily traffic (ADT): trafic journalier moyen; through
traffic: trafic de transit; traffic jam: embouteillage; access traffic: circulation de
desserte; contra-flow traffic: circulation contre-sens; commuter traffic: migrations
alternantes; traffic lights, traffic signals: feux de signalisation; linked traffic signals:

feux coordonns; to cross against traffic lights: traverser au rouge; traffic

assignment: affectation du trafic; mixed-traffic area: zone circulation intgre;
traffic segregation: sgrgation du trafic; traffic separation, traffic differentiation:
hirarchisation de la circulation; traffic integration: intgration de la circulation;
traffic restraint measure: mesure de restriction du trafic; traffic laws: code de la
route; traffic garden: terrain d'apprentissage la circulation
Trailer: remorque
Train: train
Train (to): former; training: formation; apprentissage; driver training: formation la
conduite; safety training: formation la scurit; professional training: formation
professionnelle; training programme: programme de formation; training scheme:
plan de formation; training session: session de formation; training seminar: sminaire
de formation; trainee: personne en formation
Transfer: transfert; information tranfer: transfert d'information
Transition: transition; transition zone: zone de transition; transition curve: courbe de
raccordement
Transport: transport(s); road transport: transports routiers; rail transport: transports
ferroviaires; land transport: transports terrestres; public transport: transports en
commun, transports publics; private transport: transports individuels; goods
transport: transports de marchandises; transport management: gestion des transports;
transport planning: planification des transports; Department of Transport, DoT
(Brit.): Ministre des Transports
Trauma: choc, traumatisme
Travel: voyage; to travel: voyager; travel time: dure de trajet
Treatment: traitement; blackspot treatment: traitement de points noirs; data
treatment: traitement des donnes; medical treatment: traitement mdical
Trial: essai; procs; to try: essayer; juger; full scale trial: essai en vraie grandeur; field
trial: essai en situation; on trial: l'essai
Tricycle: tricycle; motorised tricycle: tricycle moteur

Trip: trajet, dplacement (approx.); daily trip: trajet quotidien; trip assignment
model: modle d'affectation du trafic; trip distribution model: modle de distribution
du trafic
Truck (am.): camion; truck driver: camionneur, routier, chauffeur de camion,
chauffeur de poids-lourd
Tunnel: tunnel; tunnel approach: trmie
Turn: mouvement tournant; to turn: tourner; left-turn: tourne--gauche; right-turn:
tourne--droite; U-turn: demi-tour; to turn right, left: tourner droite, gauche
Two-wheeler: deux-roues; two-wheeler network: rseau deux-roues, rseau cyclable
Type: type; typology: typologie
Tyre (am.: tire): pneumatique, pneu; smooth tyre, smooth tread tyre, bald tyre: pneu
lisse; punctured tyre: pneu crev; deflated tyre: pneu dgonfl; snow tyre: pneuneige; studded tyre: pneu clous; tyre tread depth: profondeur des sculptures de
pneu; tyre-road contact: contact pneumatique-chausse

Uncertainty: incertitude
Underpass: souterrain, passage infrieur; underpass approach: trmie
Unit: unit; passenger car unit (PCU): unit voiture particulire (UVP)
University: universit
Unprotected: sans protection, vulnrable; unprotected road-user: usager vulnrable
Urban: urbain; urban area: agglomration, zone urbaine, milieu urbain; urban
management: gnie urbain, amnagement urbain (approx.); urban site, urban
location: point en milieu urbain; urban roads: voirie urbaine; urban yard: cour
urbaine; urban furniture: mobilier urbain
Use: utilisation, usage; user: utilisateur; user's guide: manuel d'utilisation
U-turn: demi-tour

V,W

Valid: valide; validation: validation; validity: validit; cross-validation: validation

transversale (approx.)
Value: valeur; eigenvalue: valeur propre
Variable: variable; explanatory variable: variable explicative; descriptive variable:
variable descriptive
Variance: variance; variance analysis: analyse de variance; covariance: covariance
Vehicle: vhicule; light vehicle: vhicule lger; heavy vehicle: vhicule lourd; slow
vehicle: vhicule lent; control vehicle: vhicule-tmoin; vehicle occupancy rate: taux
d'occupation des vhicules; vehicle inspection: contrle des vhicules
Victim: victime
Vibration: vibration
Video-camera: magntoscope
Village: village
Violation: infraction
Visibility: visibilit
Vision: vision; visual: visuel; field of vision: champ de vision; peripheral vision:
vision priphrique; visual acuity: acuit visuelle
Vulnerable: vulnrable, fragile
Wait (to): attendre; waiting: attente; waiting lane: file d'attente; to wait in lane: faire
la queue
Walk: marche, promenade; to walk: marcher; walking: la marche ( pied); at walking
pace: au pas

Wall: mur; retaining wall: mur de soutnement; wall-to-wall paving, wall-to-wall

surfacing: traitement de chausse de mur mur, pavage de mur mur
Warn (to): avertir, prvenir; warning lights: feux de dtresse; warning system:
systme d'alerte, dispositif d'alerte
Wave: onde; green wave: onde verte
Weather: temps; adverse weather conditions: mauvaises conditions mtorologiques,
intempries; cloudy weather: temps couvert; weather forecast: bulletin
mtorologique
Weigh (to): peser; pondrer; weight: poids; heavy-weight vehicle: poids-lourd
Wheel: roue; spare wheel: roue de secours; steering wheel: volant; wheel load: charge
par roue
Wide: large; width: largeur
Wind: vent; windscreen, windshield: pare-brise; windscreen wiper: essuie-glace;
laminated windscreen: pare-brise feuillet
Witness: tmoin
Work: travail; to work: travailler; worker: travailleur; workman, manual worker:
ouvrier; good workmanship: du bon travail; work programme: programme de travail;
public works: travaux publics; road works: chantier; workshop: atelier; groupe de
travail, sminaire; working group: groupe de travail; commission
Wrong: faux, incorrect

X,Y,Z

Year: anne; base year: anne de rfrence, anne de base; leap-year: anne bissextile
Yield (to): cder le passage; yield to the right: priorit droite
Zone: zone; zoning: zonage