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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.
International E-road network (Note: not all E-roads are limited access with no at-grade intersections) The M1 highway running through Belarus Bundesautobahn 7 near Füssen, in Southern Bavaria, Germany. A1 motorway crossing Serbia, connecting the border to Hungary in the north, with the city of Niš to the south.
The Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, commonly known as the Interstate Highway System, or the Eisenhower Interstate System, is a network of controlled-access highways that forms part of the National Highway System in the United States. The system extends throughout the contiguous United States and has ...
The Veterans Memorial Parkway in London, Ontario is a modern at-grade expressway, 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 (also known ...
General classification Controlled-access highway 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.
Interchanges are almost always used when at least one road is a controlled-access highway (freeway or motorway) or a limited-access divided 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 ( E12) and Highway 9 ...
Contraflow lane reversal is the altering of the normal flow of traffic, typically on a controlled-access highway (such as a freeway or motorway), to either aid in an emergency evacuation (the most common usage of the term in the United States) or, as part of routine maintenance activities, to facilitate widening or reconstruction of one of the highway's carriageways (the most common usage in ...
This is a list of countries (or regions) by total road network size, both paved and unpaved.Also included is additional data on the length of each country's or region's controlled-access highway network, also known as motorway, expressway, freeway and so forth (they are known by different names in various places), designed for high vehicular traffic.