Portal:Roads

Portals → Technology → Transport → Roads

The World Roads Portal

Jalan Ampang at night, with the Petronas Twin Towers visible in the background in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

A road is a thoroughfare used primarily for movement of traffic. Roads differ from streets, whose primary use is local access. They also differ from stroads, which combine the features of streets and roads. Most modern roads are paved.

The words "road" and "street" are commonly considered to be interchangeable, but the distinction is important in urban design.

There are many types of roads, including parkways, avenues, controlled-access highways (freeways, motorways, and expressways), tollways, interstates, highways, and local roads.

The primary features of roads include lanes, sidewalks (pavement), roadways (carriageways), medians, shoulders, verges, bike paths (cycle paths), and shared-use paths. (Full article...)

Refresh with new selections below (purge)

edit

Selected article

The A1 motorway (Croatian: Autocesta A1) is the longest motorway in Croatia spanning 454.5 kilometers (282.4 mi). As it connects Zagreb, the nation's capital, to Split, the second largest city in the country and the largest city in Dalmatia, the motorway represents a major north–south transportation corridor in Croatia and a significant part of the Adriatic–Ionian motorway. Apart from Zagreb and Split, the A1 motorway runs near a number of major Croatian cities, provides either access to several national parks or nature parks and world heritage sites and numerous resorts, especially along the Adriatic Coast. The motorway is currently being extended south of Split to the port of Ploče and the city of Dubrovnik. National significance of the motorway is reflected through its positive economic impact on the cities and towns it connects as well as its importance to tourism in Croatia, however its genuine importance as a transit route shall be achieved upon completion of the Adriatic–Ionian motorway along the sections currently spanned just by the Adriatic Highway and two-lane roads in Slovenia and Albania connecting to the route.

Read more

More Articles

General images - load new batch

The following are images from various road-related articles on Wikipedia.

Image 1Replacing the old road with cobblestones of cement in Bo'ao Road area, Haikou City, Hainan, China. (from Roadworks)
Image 2The Italian Autostrada dei Laghi ("Lakes Motorway" in the 1950s; now parts of the Autostrada A8 and the Autostrada A9), the first controlled-access highway ever built in the world (from History of road transport)
Image 3Cracked asphalt surface (from Road surface)
Image 4Closeup of asphalt on a driveway (from Road surface)
Image 5Different layers of road including asphalt layer. The total thickness of a pavement can be measured using granular base equivalency. (from Road surface)
Image 6Polymer cement overlaying to change asphalt pavement to brick texture and color to create decorative crosswalk (from Road surface)
Image 7Construction crew laying down asphalt over fiber-optic trench, in New York City (from Road surface)
Image 8Laying asphalt (from Road surface)
Image 9Red surfacing for a bicycle lane in the Netherlands (from Road surface)
Image 10Thomas Telford, the "Colossus of the Roads" in early 19th century Britain (from History of road transport)
Image 11John Metcalf, also known as Blind Jack of Knaresborough. Drawn by J R Smith in The Life of John Metcalf published 1801. (from History of road transport)
Image 12A patched road rut at a Portland Oregon bus stop. During the summer this part of the road will be hot and combined with a bus’s high ground pressure will compress and deform part of the road. Due to the lower elevation from the driveway, a large portion of the buses weight leans on one wheel causing damage to the road. Despite the repairs, you can see the patch is already damaged. This is all happens yearly. (from Road surface)
Image 13German roadworks sign. Similar signs are used in other European countries. (from Roadworks)
Image 14Jan Brueghel (I) - Travellers on the Way, second half of 16th Century (from History of road transport)
Image 15The Dutch Reach - Use far hand on handle when opening to avoid dooring cyclists or injuries to exiting drivers and passengers. (from Road safety)
Image 16An example of composite pavement: hot-mix asphalt overlaid onto Portland cement concrete pavement (from Road surface)
Image 17Modes of road transport in Dublin, 1929 (from History of road transport)
Image 18Safe from traffic for cycling along a fully segregated Fietspad, properly designed cycling infrastructure in Amsterdam (from Road safety)
Image 19According to Eurostat, there is almost a linear proportion between the total number of passenger-km driven by car and road fatalities. (from Road safety)
Image 20Speed limits in different areas; here unusually with only a "recommended" limit (Richtgeschwindigkeit) of 130 km/h on the Autobahn in Germany (from Road safety)
Image 21Car fatalities per pax-km vs. car usage per pax-day; in Europe. It seems, at least in these European countries, that car fatalities per person-km have no strong correlation with massification of car usage. The average car usage in these countries is around 30km per person-day with varying number of fatalities ratios. These differences might be related with different cultural approaches to traffic codes, or more safety measures implemented on such countries. (from Road safety)
Image 22A road being resurfaced using a road roller (from Road surface)
Image 23Pavement ends and turns into gravel surface road. (from Road surface)
Image 24An orange diamond sign for upcoming roadworks. The worded legend shown here is banned by the 1968 Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals, but is allowed in the 2009 Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices. (from Roadworks)
Image 25Gravel road in Namibia (from Road surface)
Image 26According to Eurostat and European Railway Agency, in European railway mode of transport, there is a fatality risk for passengers and occupants 28 times lower compared with car usage. Based on data by EU-27 member nations, 2008–2010. (from Road safety)
Image 27Brick paving machine (from Road surface)
Image 28The schedule of maximum tolls allowed on the Woodstock to Rollright Turnpike Trust on the Great Road to Worcester in 1751 (from History of road transport)
Image 29A concrete road in Ewing, New Jersey (from Road surface)
Image 30The Autostrada A20 (Italy) with large central median (from Road safety)
Image 31Replacing the old road with concrete blocks in Bo'ao Road area, Haikou City, Hainan, China (from Road surface)
Image 32Vehicles experiencing a breakdown or an emergency can stop in the emergency lane; these lanes may themselves present risks to traffic. (from Road safety)
Image 33Utrecht has specially painted bicycle-only lanes. (from Road safety)
Image 34The Great North Road near Highgate on the approach to London before turnpiking. The highway was deeply rutted and spread onto adjoining land. (from History of road transport)
Image 35Sacrifices to the Modern Moloch, a 1923 cartoon published in St. Louis Star, criticizing the apparent acceptance by society of increasing automobile-related fatalities (from Road safety)
Image 36Map of Roman roads in 125CE (from History of road transport)
Image 37Deteriorating asphalt (from Road surface)
Image 38Road work in Oulu, Finland (from Roadworks)
Image 39Concrete pavers (from Road surface)
Image 40Guard rail on road in Kaluga Oblast (Russia) (from Road safety)
Image 41Old Roman road, leading from Jerusalem to Beit Gubrin, adjacent to regional highway 375 in Israel (from Road surface)
Image 42Annual traffic deaths sign over I-95 in Georgia, US, indicating more than three deaths per day (from Road safety)
Image 43Concrete roadway in San Jose, California (from Road surface)

edit

Selected image

Deerfoot Trail in the wintertime at the interchange with Peigan Trail in Calgary, Alberta, looking north
Credit: (Qyd)

Read more
Featured Picture Candidate

More pictures

edit

Did you know

...that Berlinka (pictured) was a partially constructed highway built by Nazi Germany that was intended to span the Polish Corridor from Berlin to Königsberg, Prussia?

...that there is more variation in the design of direction signs (example pictured) internationally than in any other class of road sign?

More did you know facts

edit

WikiProjects

WikiProject Highways—principal WikiProject
- U.S. Roads—United States state highways and county roads
- U.S. Streets—United States city streets
- Australian Roads—Australian highways, principal roads, and main city streets
- Canada Roads—Canada provincial highways
- Canada Streets—Canada city streets
- WikiProject UK Roads—roads in the United Kingdom
  - London transport—roads, etc.
- Paris Streets
- China Transportation—includes expressways, ring roads, Roads, national highways, etc
- Germany transportation
- Indian Roads
- Nepal transportation
- Pakistani Roads
- Scotland transport—includes road and bus transport in Scotland

edit

Selected panorama

View over Paris, at dusk, from the Maine-Montparnasse tower.
Credit: (Benh LIEU SONG)

Read more

Featured Picture

More panoramas

edit

Topics

edit

Related portals

edit

Things to do

This list is transcluded from the tasks page, to edit this section click here.

Here are some tasks you can do for WikiProject Highways:

Article request:

Expand: any of the 8,087 Highway stub articles

Improve: You may always improve the quality of road articles by adding more information and references to enhance the overall readers' experience. Improvements to GA and FA quality is much appreciated! Also, nominations for Selected article and Selected picture are always needed, as with Did you know and News. Add to the Portal

Articles to GA: Highways and any of those at B-Class articles which can be improved.

Articles to FA: Any of those which are at GA- or at A-Class and can be improved.

Cleanup: Also, see this prioritized list of articles needing cleanup.

Peer review: highways peer review—a special peer review dedicated to highways.

Copyedit: Please copy edit to format any new articles and add talk page templates

Photo request: Just about all of them! Any pictures of Highways regions, road surface or infrastruture varieties or Highways would be useful. In particular we need Highways region maps that can be licensed for Wikipedia.