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strada locale (meaning local road) or type F road: urban or extra-urban road not belonging to the other types of roads; strada vicinale: is a privately owned road of local interest located outside the town centre. In Italy the local road is a de facto communication route built to access a series of plots of land, or generally to connect to a road.
The street hierarchy is an urban planning technique for laying out road networks that exclude automobile through-traffic from developed areas. It is conceived as a hierarchy of roads that embeds the link importance of each road type in the network topology (the connectivity of the nodes to each other).
An arterial road or arterial thoroughfare is a high-capacity urban road that sits below freeways/motorways 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 freeways or expressways , and between urban centres at the highest level of ...
The green transport hierarchy (Canada), street user hierarchy (US), sustainable transport hierarchy (Wales), [1] urban transport hierarchy or road user hierarchy (Australia, UK) [2] is a hierarchy of modes of passenger transport prioritising green transport. [3] It is a concept used in transport reform groups worldwide [4] [5] and in policy ...
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.
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.
Traffic in Towns is an influential report and popular book on urban and transport planning policy published 25 November 1963 for the UK Ministry of Transport by a team headed by the architect, civil engineer and planner Colin Buchanan.
A high-capacity urban road designed to deliver traffic at the highest possible level of service. At-grade intersection A junction at which two or more roads cross at the same level or grade. Automobile. See car. Automotive vehicle. See Motor vehicle. Autonomous vehicle. See self-driving car. Auxiliary route A highway that supplements a major or ...