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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 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.
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 ...
Permeability is generally considered a positive attribute of an urban design, as it permits ease of movement and avoids severing neighbourhoods. Urban forms which lack permeability, e.g. those severed by arterial roads, or with many long culs-de-sac, are considered to discourage movement on foot and encourage longer journeys by car. There is ...
The city measures quality through a 0-100 rating system called the Pavement Condition Index.
Form-Based Coding can be applied at many scales, from a two-block main street to a county-wide region. An early Form-Based Code was adopted for downtown West Palm Beach in 1995. A significant code for a major urban arterial, the Columbia Pike in Arlington County, Virginia, was adopted in 2003 (Ferrell Madden Associates).
Major urban arterial. Belmont Street is a major urban arterial for the city. Many motorists use the street as they enter or exit the city via the Kenneth Burns Memorial Bridge over Lake Quinsigamond.
The primary US guidance is found in A Policy on Geometric Design of Highways and Streets published by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO). [2] Other standards include the Australian Guide to Road Design Archived 2011-11-09 at the Wayback Machine, and the British Design Manual for Roads.