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  2. Glossary of road transport terms - Wikipedia

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    A city or location posted on a series of traffic signs along a particular stretch of road indicating destinations on that route. Controlled-access highway, motorway, or freeway. A type of highway which has been designed for high-speed vehicular traffic, with all traffic flow and ingress/egress regulated. The corduroy.

  3. Controlled-access highway - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Road hierarchy - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Traffic - Wikipedia

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    Traffic laws govern and regulate traffic, while rules of the road include traffic laws and informal rules that may have developed over time to facilitate the orderly and timely flow of traffic. [ 1 ] Organized traffic generally has well-established priorities, lanes, right-of-way, and traffic control at intersections.

  6. Diverging diamond interchange - Wikipedia

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    A diverging diamond interchange (DDI), also called a double crossover diamond interchange (DCD), [ 1 ][ 2 ] is a subset of diamond interchange in which the opposing directions of travel on the non- freeway road cross each other on either side of the interchange so that traffic crossing the freeway on the overpass or underpass is operating on ...

  7. 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 ...

  8. Roads in Pakistan - Wikipedia

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    The Pakhtunkhwa Highways Authority under the Department of Transportation maintains over 3,089.65 kilometres (1,919.82 mi) of roadways organized into various classifications which criss-cross the province and provides access to major population centers. All provincial highways in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are pre-fixed with the letter 'S' followed by ...

  9. Expressways of Pakistan - Wikipedia

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    Expressways of Pakistan (Urdu: پاکستان کے گزرگاه) are a network of multiple-lane, high-speed toll highways in Pakistan, which are owned, maintained and operated by various levels of government. All federal expressways are controlled by the National Highway Authority, while others are provincially and municipally controlled.