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  2. Road hierarchy - Wikipedia

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    Arterial road with bike lane in Palo Alto, California. An arterial road or arterial thoroughfare is a road without controlled access that can carry a large volume of local traffic at a generally high speed, being below controlled-access highways in the hierarchy. Because their primary function is to connect collector roads (below) to controlled ...

  3. Arterial road - Wikipedia

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    An arterial road or arterial thoroughfare is a high-capacity urban road that sits below highways on the road hierarchy in terms of traffic flow and speed. [1] [2] The primary function of an arterial road is to deliver traffic from collector roads to highways or expressways, and between urban hubs at the highest level of service possible.

  4. Functional classification - Wikipedia

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    The functional classification of a road is the class or group of roads to which the road belongs. There are three main functional classes as defined by the United States Federal Highway Administration: arterial, collector, and local.

  5. Street hierarchy - Wikipedia

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    The network structure of Radburn, New Jersey exemplifies the concept of street hierarchy of contemporary districts. (The shaded area was not built.) The street hierarchy is an urban planning technique for laying out road networks that exclude automobile through-traffic from developed areas.

  6. 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.

  7. 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 ...

  8. Limited-access road - Wikipedia

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    The Veterans Memorial Parkway in London, Ontario is a modern at-grade limited-access road with intersections. A limited-access road, known by various terms worldwide, including limited-access highway, dual-carriageway, expressway, and partial controlled-access highway, is a highway or arterial road for high-speed traffic which has many or most characteristics of a controlled-access highway ...

  9. Interchange (road) - Wikipedia

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    A junction that connects a controlled-access facility to a lower-order facility, such as an arterial or collector road. [ 4 ] The mainline is the controlled-access highway in a service interchange, while the crossroad is the lower-order facility that often includes at-grade intersections or roundabouts, which may pass over or under the mainline.