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road construction

area of transport engineering for the design and construction of roads
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road construction
Snr. László Szalai · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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Summary

road construction is a field of study[1]. It draws 889 Wikipedia views per month (field of study category, ranking #161 of 379).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: industry[3], branch of engineering[4], academic major[5], job activity[6]
  • Subclass of: construction[7], transportation engineering[8]
  • Part of: transport civil engineering[9]
  • Commons category: Roadworks[10]
  • Said to be the same as: road engineering project[11]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Road construction[12]
  • Described by source: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[13]
  • Different from: roadworks[14]
  • Uses: roadworks[15]
  • Is the study of: road[16], construction[17]
  • Practiced by: highway engineer[18]

Why It Matters

road construction has Wikipedia articles in 15 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] It is known by 42 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

Related Entities

Commissioners of Highland Roads and Bridges Repair Pavel Klapka transportation engineering

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . STW Thesaurus for Economics. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Schools Online Thesaurus. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Library of Congress Subject Headings. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 2d ago · Susmuffin · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → highway-engineering
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: highway-engineering, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289937635|highway engineering (#289937635)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915"
  2. 15d ago · Ottawajin · 2026-10-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Gemet id → 7276
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'arz', 'bg', 'commons', 'de', 'en', 'fa', 'fi', 'hi', 'lv', 'mn', 'ms', '
    Sitelink count → 25
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Gemet id: 7276, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/152602597|road construction (#152602597)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/5959|GEMET ID]] #mix'"
  3. 21d ago · BruyereC · 2026-09-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Iowa state university library vocabularies id → isut149
    Svkkl authority id → 0206671-silnicni-stavby
    Basisklassifikation → 56.24
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Iowa state university library vocabularies id: isut149, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/179935639|Highway engineering (#179935639)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/"
  4. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → field of study, industry, branch of engineering +2
    Fast id → 1098548, 1098394
    Part of → transport civil engineering
    Uses → roadworks
    + 14 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 6522, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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