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Detailed road map of the Netherlands (2012) The Netherlands has a public road network totaling 139,000 km, [1] one of the densest in the world. [2] [3] [nb 1] Its use has increased since the 1950s and now exceeds 200 billion km traveled per year, [5] three quarters of which is by car, [6] making it among the most intensely used road networks. [4]
These are the Netherlands' motorways by their national number, listed with the most important towns at or near the roads. The numbers start with 'A' for 'autosnelweg' (motorway in Dutch). Some of these also carry one or more European E-road numbers on (sections of) their trajectory.
Dutch roads include 3,530 km of motorways and expressways, [1] and with a motorway density of 64 kilometres per 1,000 km 2, the country also has one of the densest motorway networks in the world. [3] In Dutch a motorway is called "autosnelweg" or simply "snelweg"; other expressways are just called "autoweg" (literally: "car road"). According to ...
E-road marker on Dutch road sign. This is a list of the European Routes, or E-road highways, that run through the Netherlands.The current network is signposted according to the 1985 system revision, and contains seven Class A roads and six Class B roads within the country.
The original brown N-numbers on road-signs were since then replaced with red A-numbers, for Dutch motorways, and new yellow N-numbers for other highways. The E-road system was significantly renumbered in 1985, but remains signposted everywhere in the Netherlands. [2] For this road system the numbers 89 to 100 were used.
[3] [nb 2] In 2013, 5,191 km were national roads, 7,778 km were provincial roads, and 125,230 km were municipality and other roads. [13] Dutch roads include 3,530 km of motorways and expressways, [2] and with a motorway density of 64 kilometres per 1,000 km², the country also has one of the densest motorway networks in the world. [12]
The road signs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (the Netherlands and six Dutch Caribbean islands), as well as Suriname, [1] are regulated in the Reglement verkeersregels en verkeerstekens 1990, commonly abbreviated as RVV 1990. While most previous signage, from the RVV 1966 (Dutch) remained legal and official, they have been updated / replaced.
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