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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 7 March 2025. Directionality of traffic flow by jurisdiction Countries by direction of road traffic, c. 2020 Left-hand traffic Right-hand traffic No data Left-hand traffic (LHT) and right-hand traffic (RHT) are the practices, in bidirectional traffic, of keeping to the left side or to the right side of ...
English: A map indicating which countries drive on the right side of the road, and which drive on the left side, coupled with whether they use kilometers as a distance/speed unit, or miles. Right-hand traffic, kilometers
English: A map indicating which countries drive on the right side of the road, and which drive on the left side. Esperanto: Mapo indikanta, en kiuj landoj oni veturas sur la dekstra flanko de la strato, kaj en kiuj oni veturas sur la maldekstra flanko .
Roads can be motorways, expressways or other routes. In many countries, expressways share the same colour as primary routes, but there are some exceptions where they share the colour of motorways (Austria, Liechtenstein, Hungary, Switzerland, Spain, Sweden) or have their own colour (the countries comprising former Yugoslavia employ white text on blue specifically for expressways).
A central island, usually either with drainage, foliage, or high-impact barriers, provides a visible separation between the carriageways in opposite directions. As in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and Japan, South Africans drive on the left-hand side of the road and nearly all steering wheels are on the right-hand side of vehicles.
Some people credit Henry Ford with standardizing US traffic on the right side of the road because, in 1908, Ford Motor Co. put the steering wheel on the left side of the hugely popular Model T ...
Other non-American countries using road signs similar to the MUTCD include Australia, Indonesia, Ireland, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, and Thailand. They, along with the US Virgin Islands , are also the only countries listed here which drive on the left —with the exception of Liberia and the Philippines (though partial), both of which drive ...
This is a list of countries (or regions) by total road network size, both paved and unpaved.Also included is additional data on road network density and the length of each country or region's controlled-access highway network (also known as a motorway, expressway, freeway, etc.), designed for high vehicular traffic.