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Highway engineering, a Common card
Highway engineering is a professional engineering discipline branching from the civil engineering subdiscipline of transportation engineering that involves the planning, design, construction, operation, and maintenance of roads, highways, streets, bridges, and tunnels.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 71
- DEF
- 70
- Power
- 141
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 9,800
Power 141 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
Highway engineering quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Highway engineering card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Standards of highway engineering are continuously being ______.
Answer
improved. Standards of highway engineering are continuously being improved. From the Highway engineering article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Manifold. Manifold 80 · Titanic Lifeboat No. 14 75 · Highway engineering 71 · Ashok Seth 68 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Manifold. Manifold 260,000 · Titanic Lifeboat No. 14 14,000 · Highway engineering 9,800 · National Register of Historic Places listings in St. Croix County, Wisconsin 730 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Highway engineering became prominent towards the latter half of the 20th century after World War II.
- Standards of highway engineering are continuously being improved.
- Highway engineers must take into account future traffic flows, design of highway intersections/interchanges, geometric alignment and design, highway pavement materials and design, structural design of pavement thickness, and pavement maintenance.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Highway engineering article was read about 9,800 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 71 and blocks with 70: each hit it takes is cut by 28 %.
How to get Highway engineering
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Highway engineering (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Haas, David, creator, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.