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  2. Feeder road - Wikipedia

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    A feeder road may refer to: Frontage road, a road which runs parallel with high-speed roads, allowing easier access to local amenities; Spur (road), a short road which provides specific access to one place, such as a sports venue or major business hub; A secondary road which "feeds" traffic to main highways and freeways

  3. Frontage road - Wikipedia

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    A two-way residential frontage road (left) parallel to a busy major highway Freeflowing frontage road. A frontage road (also known as an access road, outer road, service road, feeder road, or parallel road) is a local road running parallel to a higher-speed, limited-access road. A frontage road is often used to provide access to private ...

  4. Glossary of road transport terms - Wikipedia

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    See three-way junction 5-1-1 A transportation and traffic information telephone hotline in some regions of the United States and Canada that was initially designated for road weather information. A Access road See frontage road Advisory speed limit A speed recommendation by a governing body. All-way stop or four-way stop An intersection system where traffic approaching it from all directions ...

  5. Federal-aid highway program - Wikipedia

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    The Federal-aid secondary highway system (FAS system) consists of the principal secondary and feeder routes including farm-to-market roads, rural mail and public school bus routes, local rural roads, county and township roads, roads of the county, road class, and their urban extensions. These roads are chosen by the state highway departments ...

  6. Road hierarchy - Wikipedia

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    Bundesautobahn 9 near by Garching bei Muenchen, Germany. At the top of the hierarchy in terms of traffic flow and speed are controlled-access highways; their defining characteristic is the control of access to and from the road, meaning that the road cannot be directly accessed from properties or other roads, but only from specific connector roads.

  7. Types of road - Wikipedia

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    A road is a thoroughfare, route, or way on land between two places that has been surfaced or otherwise improved to allow travel by foot or some form of conveyance, including a motor vehicle, cart, bicycle, or horse.

  8. Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1944 - Wikipedia

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    However, it substituted rural population for total population, defining rural areas as those places with fewer than 2,500 people. Under the secondary/feeder road formula, each state was guaranteed to receive at least 0.5 percent of the total appropriation available. Limitation of the distribution of funds only to state highway departments.

  9. Controlled-access highway - Wikipedia

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    The actual pattern is determined by a number of factors including local topology, traffic density, land cost, building costs, type of road, etc. In some jurisdictions feeder/distributor lanes are common, especially for cloverleaf interchanges; in others, such as the United Kingdom, where the roundabout interchange is common, feeder/distributor ...