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A controlled-access highway is a type of highway that has been designed for high-speed vehicular traffic, with all traffic flow—ingress and egress—regulated. Common English terms are freeway, [a] motorway, [b] and expressway. [c] Other similar terms include throughway or thruway [d] and parkway.
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.
Expressway: Canada Interchange High No Yes expressway is synonymous with freeway or autoroute depending on the province Farm-to-market road: High No usually a state highway or county highway: Freeway: US Interchange High No Yes Freeway: Canada Interchange High No Yes expressway is synonymous with freeway or autoroute depending on the province ...
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 ...
State Highway 99 (SH 9, Grand Parkway) in Liberty and Chambers counties (consisting of Segments H and I-1) is a two-lane toll road. A section of SH 105 south of Cleveland is a two-lane freeway. SH 249 (Aggie Expressway) within Grimes County is a non-tolled two-lane freeway.
The Australian Capital Territory uses the term "parkway" to refer to roadways of a standard approximately equivalent to what would be designated as an "expressway", "freeway", or "motorway" in other areas. Parkways generally have multiple lanes in each direction of travel, no intersections (crossroads are accessed by interchanges), high speed ...
Interchanges are almost always used when at least one road is a controlled-access highway (freeway) or a limited-access highway (expressway), though they are sometimes used at junctions between surface streets. An aerial view of the Lakalaiva interchange in the Tampere Ring Road between the Highway 3 and Highway 9 near city of Tampere
In American law, the word "highway" is sometimes used to denote any public way used for travel, whether a "road, street, and parkway"; [6] however, in practical and useful meaning, a "highway" is a major and significant, well-constructed road that is capable of carrying reasonably heavy to extremely heavy traffic. [7]