World Highways Rank [Archive] - Page 3

flierfy

November 7th, 2008, 09:15 PM

I calculate Germany have 12.624 kilometer of roads, classified as an Autobahn. However, some Autobahns have the lack of emergency lanes.

Another 1.561 kilometer is classified as "Autobahnähnlich" in the ADAC 1:150.000 road atlas.

This would bring the total amount in Germany to 14.185 kilometers.

However, there is one "but".

A lot of Autobahnähnliche (Motorway-like) roads are urban arterials with grade separated intersections. They often have the lack of emergency lanes, and proper on and offramps. They also have often a bad geometry, and a speed limit lower as 80km/h.

Some Autobahnähnliche roads doesn't have any median or middle barrier at all, these are not taken into the account of 1.561 kilometers.

However, a lot of Autobahnähnliche roads are fully up to motorway standards, sometimes even without a speed limit. Therefore, the number of 14.185 kilometers cannot all be taken into account of "motorway-grade roads".
I'm interested in how you counted this. I added up all stretches of dualled non-motorway roads in Germany which are completely grade-separated and stretch over two junctions at least and got a total length of 1641,7 km.

Now I wonder what you mean by bad design standards and in which way they disqualify one of these roads from this competition.

caserass

November 9th, 2008, 08:40 PM

The list so far in Europe;

Motorway-called roads
1. Spain 12.946 - Autovía & Autopista
2. Germany 12.624 - Autobahn
3. France 10.689 - Autoroute

Expressways with motorway characteristics
1. France 3.097 - Voie Expresse
2. Germany 1.561 - Autobahnähnlich & Gelbe Autobahn
3. Spain 0* - Via Rapida**

Total:
1. Germany 14.185
2. France 13.786
3. Spain 12.946

* Only difference between Autovías and Autopistas are tolls.
** A Via Rapida is a one lane expressway, and therefore not taken into account.

What can we see from this list? Well, the three countries are close to eachother. However, they have various population (densities) and AADT. Counted to population, Spain wins by far, and Germany comes out worse.

Spain also has the largest amount of the highest design standards, France has the lowest. Germany is in between, but it has to be noted, that some German Autobahnen have no emergency lane, also in rural areas.

Still, a decent comparison is hard, since France's Voie Expresses (motorway-like roads) have a higher design standard as German Autobahnähnliche roads. Spanish Autovías have the same design standards and Vmax as their Autobahn, Autopista & Autoroute counterparts.

1. France 3.097 - Voie Expresse

I have to say I'm very surprised. There are 380 voies express in France, and some of them are 100 kms and more.

Even if the average of these 380 voies express is 10 kms it still makes 3800 kilometers...

I don't know but I found this site : SARATLAS (http://saratlas.free.fr/index.php?page=stats&lang=fr)

These people seem to share the same passion with you :)

As for the lengtt of the french network here they say 11810 km in 2001...

Franceautoroutes (http://franceautoroutes.free.fr/reseau.php)

:bash: I don't understand actually...

bebe.2006

November 11th, 2008, 09:30 PM

Source: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=11619612#post11619612 :

Let`s make some changes to the list by ChrisZwolle. All data from this thread.

So,

China has 55.000 km
Germany 14.185 km
France 13.786 km
Spain 12.946 km
Canada 6.165 km
Malaysia 1471 km
Poland 1200 km - plus 1000 km dual carriageway, but non-grade separated roads from socialistic times, togather 2200 km
Czechia 1002 km
Iraq 2227 km - interesting thing is, most of these roads were built by polish companies in 1980's.
Norway 350 km
Sweden 1700 km
Morocco 1152 km

The changed list contains only dual carriageway (four or more lanes), grade separated (access controlled, limited-access) roads:

Highways, motorways, expressways in length:

1) United States 75.009 km
2) China 55.000 km (growing over 4500km each year)
3) Germany 14.185 km
4) France 13.786 km
5) Spain 12.946 km
6) Brazil 11.000 km
7) Japan 6.946 km
8) Italy 6.621 km
9) Canada 6.165 km
10) Mexico 6.144 km (growing fast)
11) India 4885 km (seems unlikely to me)
12) Saudi Arabia 3348 km
13) Thailand 2885 km (are those all expressways?)
14) Chile 2653 km
15) Netherlands 2360 km
16) Iraq 2227 km (i don't think they are all motorways)
17) Pakistan 2225 km
18) Portugal 2002 km
19) South Korea 1996 km
20) South Africa 1927 km
21) Ukraine 1770 km (most of them are grade-expressways i guess)
22) Belgium 1729 km
23) Turkey 1726 km
24) Australia 1700 km
24) Sweden 1700 km
26) Austria 1677 km
27) Switzerland 1638 km
28) Malaysia 1471 km
29) United Arab Emirates 1392 km
30) Poland 1346 km
31) Venezuela 1256 km
32) Nigeria 1194 km
33) Morocco 1152 km
34) Croatia 1050 km
35) Griekenland 1030km
36) Denmark 1010km
37) Czechia 1002km
Egypt 988km ( i doubt of all these motorways are real motorways)
Syria 877km
Taiwan 872km
Hungary 860km
Russia 770km
Iran 751km
Belarus 750km
Argentina 734km
Finland 653km
Algeria 640km
Cuba 638km
Serbia 560km
Oman 550km
Lithuania 523km
Slovenia 442km
Kuwait 420km
Jordan 401km
Indonesia 385km (i thought they had more)
Norway 350 km
Qatar 333km
Uzbekistan 332km
Bulgaria 328km
El Salvador 327km
Slovakia 316km
Cyprus 276km
Peru 276km
Romania 266km
Dominican Republic 263km
Libya 262km
Uruguay 252km
Tunisia 249km
Cameroon 240km
Macedonia 192km
Philippines 170km ( i thought they had more)
Cote d’Ivoire 162km
Kenya 153km
Singapore 150km
Lebanon 145km
New Zealand 144km
Latvia 132km
Israel 126km
Luxembourg 114km
Myanmar 101km
Vietnam 100km (new motorways)
Estonia 75km
Zambia 50km
Ghana 35km
Jamaica 33km
Bahrain 30km
Gabon 30km
Guinea-Bissau 15km

GRAND TOTAL: 259.027km

You must notice, that a motorway in Cameroon or The Dominican Republic can completely differ from what we seen in Europe and the United States. Length shown here can be seen as highly controversial for some countries. Most data token from wikipedia or the CIA Factbook, and, in some rare cases, i figured it out with maps.

Sometimes, wikipedia doesn’t seems to be very accurate, for example they say Australia has about 16000kms of Expressway, which seems to me as highly unlikely.

Any comments or corrections are very welcome.

Before i starting to figure this out, i thought, there were some 270.000 kilometers of motorway/expressways on our globe, and, it seems to be i was quite close to that.

Muttie

November 12th, 2008, 09:26 AM

Is this list with expressways? Or do you guys only count highways?

Muttie

November 12th, 2008, 09:38 AM

Either way, Morocco has 897.5 km of dual carriageway (four or more lanes) and 255 km of grade separated (access controlled) roads (2x2):

Total of 1152.5km :)

ElviS77

November 12th, 2008, 10:29 AM

Source: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=11619612#post11619612 :

Let`s make some changes to the list by ChrisZwolle. All data from this thread.

So,

China has 55.000 km
Germany 14.185 km
France 13.786 km
Spain 12.946 km
Canada 6.165 km
Malaysia 1471 km
Poland 1200 km - plus 1000 km dual carriageway, but non-grade separated roads from socialistic times, togather 2200 km
Czechia 1002 km
16) Iraq 2227 km (i don't think they are all motorways) - interesting thing is, most of these roads were built by polish companies in 1980's.

The changed list contains only dual carriageway (four or more lanes), grade separated (access controlled) roads:

in length:

1) United States 75.009 km
2) China 55.000 km (growing over 4500km each year)
3) Germany 14.185 km
4) France 13.786 km
5) Spain 12.946 km
6) Brazil 11.000 km
7) Japan 6.946 km
8) Italy 6.621 km
9) Canada 6.165 km
10) Mexico 6.144 km (growing fast)
11) India 4885 km (seems unlikely to me)
12) Saudi Arabia 3348 km
13) Thailand 2885 km (are those all expressways?)
14) Chile 2653 km
15) Netherlands 2360 km
16) Iraq 2227 km (i don't think they are all motorways)
17) Pakistan 2225 km
18) Portugal 2002 km
19) South Korea 1996 km
20) South Africa 1927 km
21) Ukraine 1770 km (most of them are grade-expressways i guess)
22) Belgium 1729 km
23) Turkey 1726 km
24) Australia 1700 km
25) Austria 1677 km
26) Switzerland 1638 km
27) Malaysia 1471 km
28) Sweden 1428 km
29) United Arab Emirates 1392 km
30) Venezuela 1256 km
31) Poland 1200 km
32) Nigeria 1194 km
33) Croatia 1050 km
34) Griekenland 1030km
35) Denmark 1010km
36) Czechia 1002km
Egypt 988km ( i doubt of all these motorways are real motorways)
Syria 877km
Taiwan 872km
Hungary 860km
Morocco 818km
Russia 770km
Iran 751km
Belarus 750km
Argentina 734km
Finland 653km
Algeria 640km
Cuba 638km
Serbia 560km
Oman 550km
Lithuania 523km
Slovenia 442km
Kuwait 420km
Jordan 401km
Indonesia 385km (i thought they had more)
Qatar 333km
Uzbekistan 332km
Bulgaria 328km
El Salvador 327km
Slovakia 316km
Cyprus 276km
Peru 276km
Romania 266km
Dominican Republic 263km
Libya 262km
Uruguay 252km
Tunisia 249km
Cameroon 240km
Macedonia 192km
Philippines 170km ( i thought they had more)
Cote d’Ivoire 162km
Kenya 153km
Singapore 150km
Lebanon 145km
New Zealand 144km
Latvia 132km
Norway 128km
Israel 126km
Luxembourg 114km
Myanmar 101km
Vietnam 100km (new motorways)
Estonia 75km
Zambia 50km
Ghana 35km
Jamaica 33km
Bahrain 30km
Gabon 30km
Guinea-Bissau 15km

GRAND TOTAL: 259.027km

You must notice, that a motorway in Cameroon or The Dominican Republic can completely differ from what we seen in Europe and the United States. Length shown here can be seen as highly controversial for some countries. Most data token from wikipedia or the CIA Factbook, and, in some rare cases, i figured it out with maps.

Sometimes, wikipedia doesn’t seems to be very accurate, for example they say Australia has about 16000kms of Expressway, which seems to me as highly unlikely.

Any comments or corrections are very welcome.

Before i starting to figure this out, i thought, there were some 270.000 kilometers of motorway/expressways on our globe, and, it seems to be i was quite close to that.

I know the Norwegian network is bad, but 128 kms..? Give me a break, that was the figure in the late 70s... Today, it's at 280 kms or thereabouts, and come 24 Nov, the E6 in Østfold is completed, increasing the network to just over 300 kms. In addition, there are a few multilane grade-separated roads in Oslo, Trondheim and Bergen which are not included, which would take the total network length to about 350 kms. Even the Swedish network is a bit longer than suggested, I think 1700 kms has been mentioned on the Sweden forum.

diz

November 12th, 2008, 10:44 AM

欢迎到摩天大楼城市! 您可以显示我们一些图片吗? 并且下次如果可能, 您可以讲话用英语吗? 谢谢! :) :)

I see that I posted when this thread began...

and looking back..... I'm baffled as to why I posted this since I do not speak Chinese whatsoever.

Lydon

November 12th, 2008, 01:08 PM

lol!

karma police

November 12th, 2008, 01:19 PM

maybe i´m blind or something but I can´t find the Uk on that list.

Verso

November 12th, 2008, 02:29 PM

I see that I posted when this thread began...

and looking back..... I'm baffled as to why I posted this since I do not speak Chinese whatsoever.

With Google Translate everything is possible. You welcomed the forumer that posted before you and asked him/her, if (s)he can speak English. I still remember that post (although I wasn't yet registered). :)

TheCat

November 12th, 2008, 08:24 PM

Is this list with expressways? Or do you guys only count highways?

Well, the official statistics in different countries vary in this regard, although the aim of this thread is to only count limited-access motorways. Otherwise, the initially quoted statistic for Canada (17,000 km) would be valid, since many roads in Canada are dual carriageways. However, the recently-adjusted number (~6,000 km) is the true length of motorways.

nname

November 13th, 2008, 08:07 AM

PS: It also seems that the data is from 1998. While the size of the network hasn't grown by a lot, several new sections of motorway have been built throughout the country.
I think the freeway in BC grew about 100km in the past 10 years, although the number from the Public Purpose website seems to be a bit low for BC for 1998 (freeway sections of TCH in Lower Mainland + Coquihalla + Okanagan Connector alone would give 455km)

Now, calculating the current length of freeway in BC, according to how Google Map defines it:
BC-1/3/5 (exit 0 to 374) - 374km
BC-1 (Van.I exit 8 to 14) - 10km
BC-3 (exit 177 to end of fwy) - 4km
BC-17 (exit 7 to 11) - 4km
BC-19 (exit 49 to 75) - 29km
BC-91 (entire length) - 22km
BC-91A (entire length) - 3km
BC-97C (freeway section) - 81km
BC-99 (border to exit 40B) - 41km
Knight St (freeway section) - 5km
TOTAL = 573km

But from my personal experience, these sections should count as freeways as well:
BC-1 (exit 386 to 399) - 16km
BC-17 (exit 31 to 33) - 3km
BC-19 (exit 7 to 16) - 9km
BC-19 (exit 87 to 127) - 40km
plus various short segments of BC-1, BC-97, and BC-99 (sea to sky highway) that are grade separated.. so I think BC should have around 650km of freeways.

bebe.2006

November 13th, 2008, 11:09 AM

Source: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=11619612#post11619612 :

Let`s make some changes to the list by ChrisZwolle. All data from this thread.

Highways, motorways, expressways, freeways in length:

The modified Chris's list contains only dual carriageway (four or more lanes), grade separated (access controlled, limited-access) roads:

1) United States 75.009 km
2) China 55.000 km (growing over 4500km each year)
3) Germany 14.185 km
4) France 13.786 km
5) Spain 12.946 km
6) Brazil 11.000 km
7) Japan 6.946 km
8) Italy 6.621 km
9) Canada 6.165 km
10) Mexico 6.144 km (growing fast)
11) India 4885 km (seems unlikely to me)
12) United Kingdom 3421 km
13) Saudi Arabia 3348 km
14) Thailand 2885 km (are those all expressways?)
15) Chile 2653 km
16) Netherlands 2360 km
17) Iraq 2227 km (i don't think they are all motorways)
18) Pakistan 2225 km
19) Portugal 2002 km
20) South Korea 1996 km
21) South Africa 1927 km
22) Ukraine 1770 km (most of them are grade-expressways i guess)
23) Belgium 1729 km
24) Turkey 1726 km
25) Australia 1700 km
26) Sweden 1700 km
27) Austria 1677 km
28) Switzerland 1638 km
29) Malaysia 1471 km
30) United Arab Emirates 1392 km
31) Taiwan 1335 km
32) Venezuela 1256 km
33) Poland 1240 km
34) Nigeria 1194 km
35) Hungary 1174 km
36) Morocco 1152 km
37) Czechia 1055 km
38) Croatia 1050 km
39) Griekenland 1030 km
40) Denmark 1010 km
Egypt 988 km ( i doubt of all these motorways are real motorways)
Syria 877 km
Russia 770 km
Iran 751km
Belarus 750km
Argentina 734km
Finland 653km
Algeria 640km
Cuba 638km
Serbia 560km
Oman 550km
Lithuania 523km
Slovenia 442km
Kuwait 420km
Jordan 401km
Indonesia 385km (i thought they had more)
Norway 350 km
Qatar 333km
Uzbekistan 332km
Bulgaria 328km
El Salvador 327km
Slovakia 316km
Cyprus 276km
Peru 276km
Romania 266km
Dominican Republic 263km
Libya 262km
Uruguay 252km
Tunisia 249km
Cameroon 240km
Macedonia 192km
Philippines 170km ( i thought they had more)
Cote d’Ivoire 162km
Kenya 153km
Singapore 150km
Lebanon 145km
New Zealand 144km
Latvia 132km
Israel 126km
Luxembourg 114km
Myanmar 101km
Vietnam 100km (new motorways)
Estonia 75km
Zambia 50km
Ghana 35km
Jamaica 33km
Bahrain 30km
Gabon 30km
Guinea-Bissau 15km

GRAND TOTAL: 259.027km

You must notice, that a motorway in Cameroon or The Dominican Republic can completely differ from what we seen in Europe and the United States. Length shown here can be seen as highly controversial for some countries. Most data token from wikipedia or the CIA Factbook, and, in some rare cases, i figured it out with maps.

Sometimes, wikipedia doesn’t seems to be very accurate, for example they say Australia has about 16000kms of Expressway, which seems to me as highly unlikely.

Any comments or corrections are very welcome.

Before i starting to figure this out, i thought, there were some 270.000 kilometers of motorway/expressways on our globe, and, it seems to be i was quite close to that.

nname

November 13th, 2008, 12:15 PM

According to this government site (http://www.freeway.gov.tw/English/way_net.aspx), the total length of national freeway in Taiwan is 959km.

There are also provincial highways #61 to #88 that are expressway standard, and most of them are controlled access. I'm trying to estimate the length of controlled access segment from here (http://www.thb.gov.tw/new_eng/express_kilo/express_kilo.htm):
#61 - km22-48, 102-112, 122-130, 143-166, 177-182, 224-232, 234-270, 272-298 = 142km
#61A - 2km
#62 - 19km
#64 - km18-25 = 7km
#66 - km18-27 = 9km
#68 - km1-20 = 19km
#72 - km2-20 = 18km
#74 - 15km
#74A - km0-1 = 1km
#76 - km11-33 = 22km
#78 - km1-44 = 43km
#82 - km14-34 = 20km
#84 - km21-38 = 17km
#86 - km5-18 = 13km
#88 - 22km
So the total length of controlled access expressway is estimated to be 369km.. but I'm not so sure now...

bebe.2006

November 13th, 2008, 12:54 PM

^^Taiwan 1335 km

How about UK?

Muttie

November 13th, 2008, 02:00 PM

Didnt know Nigeria had highways.

ChrisZwolle

November 13th, 2008, 02:03 PM

Actually, Nigeria has quite some expressways, though said to be in bad shape. It has one of the largest expressway networks in Africa.

ChrisZwolle

November 13th, 2008, 02:05 PM

paved: 60,068 km (including 1,194 km of expressways)

:-)

Timon91

November 13th, 2008, 05:22 PM

In general, Nigeria is doing quite well compared to the rest of Africa AFAIK :)

Lydon

November 13th, 2008, 08:24 PM

South Africa is in the lead when it comes to highways in Africa. Definitely on-par with first world countries. Morocco and Algeria are also investing heavily in road infrastructure.

pimvdh

November 13th, 2008, 08:41 PM

not bad (15th place) for a little country as the netherlands. :)

Timon91

November 13th, 2008, 08:44 PM

^^It's 56 meters of motorway per sq. km :)

ChrisZwolle

November 13th, 2008, 08:47 PM

^^It's 56 meters of motorway per sq. km :)

Or 0,0023% of the Dutch land area.

Timon91

November 13th, 2008, 08:48 PM

:omg: The whole country is getting paved and it will soon be no more than motorways

:D

pimvdh

November 13th, 2008, 09:19 PM

^^amen:)

54°26′S 3°24′E

November 14th, 2008, 09:12 PM

^^It's 56 meters of motorway per sq. km :)

Or 0,0023% of the Dutch land area.

You can't both be right. 0.0023% means that the 56 m of motorway on average must be 41 cm wide.......

Timon91

November 14th, 2008, 09:27 PM

^^We've got very narrow motorways over here, didn't you know that? :D

Seriously, I just divided the number of kms with the number of sq kms. Result: 0.0056 km of motorway per sq km

54°26′S 3°24′E

November 17th, 2008, 12:23 AM

Don't you learn maths in Netherlands :lol: It seems like ChrisZwolle is off by a factor 100 (forgot that he was talking about % ?), and you, with your latest statement, is off by a factor 10 (0.0056 km is of course 5.6 m....)

Timon91

November 17th, 2008, 08:37 AM

Tells sth about our education :ohno:
I was indeed wrong, judged too quickly :lol:

DanielFigFoz

November 17th, 2008, 07:01 PM

How Long is the Highway Network in Your Country? (country where you live)

TOTAL
PAVED
UNPAVED

--------------

PORTUGAL

Total-68 732km
Paved- 59 110km
Unpaved-9 622km

ChrisZwolle

November 17th, 2008, 07:04 PM

NETHERLANDS:

Total: 125 575 km
Paved: 113.018 km (2.450 km of motorways)
Unpaved: 12.557 km

I don't know where all these unpaved roads would be, even the most isolated farms have paved dead-end roads. I know some unpaved roads, but they're rare.

Timon91

November 17th, 2008, 07:06 PM

If they include bike paths, I could understand it :lol:

Muttie

November 17th, 2008, 07:15 PM

Where do you guys get these figures from anyway.

Mateusz

November 17th, 2008, 07:26 PM

Poland

Paved: 253 000km
unpaved: 127 000km

Perennial Quest

November 17th, 2008, 08:54 PM

RawLee

November 17th, 2008, 09:06 PM

As of 5th of June,country-owned roads are 31 240 km, of which 7 958 km are main roads, of which 2 204 km are "E" roads. There are 1055 km motorways and expressways(if I include junction too,then 1 373 km).

http://web.kozut.hu/fileadmin/kozut/adatbank/orsz_kozuthalozat_megoszl_20080615.jpg

Locally owned(by settlements) roads are 129500km.
Bicycle paths and sidewalks are 56708 km long,which is not included in the number above.
http://web.kozut.hu/uploads/media/Belterulet_kulterulet_2000.xls

ChrisZwolle

November 17th, 2008, 09:09 PM

In Italy there are 5 654km of highway network (info by Aiscat.it - document (http://www.aiscat.it/pubblicazioni/downloads/aiscat_cifre_2007.pdf) - May 2008)

In 1998 there were 654.676 km of "roads" including highways. It's not specified how many of them are unpaved. (wiki)

By "highways" I assume you mean strictly Autostrada-grade roads and not the wider perspective of the word "highway" (any public road).

DanielFigFoz

November 17th, 2008, 09:10 PM

Yes anything is a highway.

Perennial Quest

November 18th, 2008, 01:39 AM

By "highways" I assume you mean strictly Autostrada-grade roads and not the wider perspective of the word "highway" (any public road).

Yes, I didn't knew that the word highway could refer to any public road actually. Thank you for specifying that. :)

caserass

November 24th, 2008, 03:12 PM

about 900 000 km in France

SeanT

November 25th, 2008, 11:24 AM

FM 2258

November 25th, 2008, 12:04 PM

Damn, I have no idea. From farm roads(Texas), state highways/routes, to U.S. Highways and Interstates it's gotta be a lot.

J N Winkler

November 27th, 2008, 11:46 PM

From memory, the USA has about 3 million miles of public road, of which about 50% is paved. Texas alone has about 300,000 miles of public road. The Interstate highway system is about 43,000 miles in length, but it is hard to get a firm estimate of the mileage of non-Interstate freeways because they are lumped (for statistical purposes) into a Principal Arterial category which also includes divided highways without full control of access.

IRTAD figures suggest traffic density on US Interstates is about 30,000-40,000 VPD/mile, which is approximately the European median.

valdano7007

November 28th, 2008, 06:31 PM

Mexico (2006):

total: 356,945 km
paved: 178,473 km (includes 6,279 km of expressways)
unpaved: 178,472 km

valdano7007

November 28th, 2008, 06:32 PM

Damn, I have no idea. From farm roads(Texas), state highways/routes, to U.S. Highways and Interstates it's gotta be a lot.

USA (2007):

total: 6,465,799 km
paved: 4,209,835 km (includes 75,040 km of expressways)
unpaved: 2,255,964 km

ChrisZwolle

November 28th, 2008, 07:40 PM

I calculated the total American "freeway" network according to the 2008 Rand McNally atlas is 95.597 kilometers. However, I lost the original file on my previous computer. That comes down to 59.414 miles.

Qwert

November 28th, 2008, 09:39 PM

According to CIA factbook:

total: 43,761 km
paved: 38,085 km
unpaved: 5,676 km

Map which shows 1st, 2nd and 3rd class roads, motorways, expressways and their feeders:
http://frdsa.fri.uniza.sk/~janosik/Siet/ModelSiete_soubory/CestnaSiet.jpg

caserass

January 2nd, 2009, 07:52 PM

So according to the CIA world fact book :

total: 951,500 km
paved: 951,500 km (metropolitan France; includes 10,950 km of expressways)
note: there are another 5,100 km of roadways in overseas departments (2006)

almost 1 million....

tollfreak

January 3rd, 2009, 03:35 AM

in indonesia, the total km of freeways/highways (all toll roads) is 630 km. This is considered very small considering Indonesia was one of the first at starting building freeways/highways in the Southeast Asia region with the Jagorawi Toll road opened in 1978

wdw35

February 11th, 2009, 08:21 PM

A nice feature on the nif.hu (Hungarian Infrastructure Company) site shows the history of the motorways in this country, as a consecutive set of maps since 1963 until today. To see it go to www.nif.hu and then click "Térkép animáció (A gyorsforgalmi hálózat fejlesztése Magyarországon 1963 - 2010)", right below the search box in the upper left part of the screen.

This got me thinking of a nice and ambitious innitiative for the entire Europe. Maybe even go further and extend it in the future (expected opening dates), or build some kind of database, with more information.

We all know the http://motorways-exitlists.com/ site, but there could be so much more than that! It is somehow frustrating that in between us we know so much about this, and yet there is no systematic place where this knowledge is located.
Perhaps we could start with the information available at http://motorways-exitlists.com/ and translate it to a map (or maybe even better, directly to GE!) and add historical data (like construction start and opening dates).

I am sure this would be easy, once we agree on a data standard and fill in procedure. I am sure we would find volunteers from each country to bring in the data.

PS: I used EUR and not EU in the thread title so that we don't exclude non-EU countries in Europe with beautiful motorway systems (HR etc.)

Mateusz

February 11th, 2009, 09:57 PM

The heck ? ;) There is such similar topic here called Statistics I think. I wanted to make a SSC Highways & Autobahns Wiki but I don't know how to do it :(

Timon91

February 11th, 2009, 11:00 PM

Your statistics thread is only about existing motorways, right? wdw35 also wants to add when they were constructed and he wants to add future motorways.

Timon91

February 11th, 2009, 11:10 PM

edit - double post

bebe.2006

February 12th, 2009, 09:35 AM

Motorways in Poland (without expressways):
http://nowedrogi.pl/autostrady.htm

Mateusz

February 12th, 2009, 11:13 AM

Your statistics thread is only about existing motorways, right? wdw35 also wants to add when they were constructed and he wants to add future motorways.

Double post ! :lol:

Well, I started with simplified form. Wiki can include other stuff as well, plans etc :)

Just the thing is that I don't know how to start with Wiki :nuts:

Verso

February 12th, 2009, 04:37 PM

Motorways in Poland (without expressways):
http://nowedrogi.pl/autostrady.htm

Great presentation. But I thought the A6 (Szczecin bypass) was also an old German Reichsautobahn. It says it was built between 1997 and 2007. :dunno:

Timon91

February 12th, 2009, 05:08 PM

Double post ! :lol:

Yeah, I just saw that a minute ago :lol:

Well, I started with simplified form. Wiki can include other stuff as well, plans etc :)

Just the thing is that I don't know how to start with Wiki :nuts:

Me neither, I'm sure that Chris knows :D

wdw35

February 12th, 2009, 06:21 PM

The heck ? ;) There is such similar topic here called Statistics I think. I wanted to make a SSC Highways & Autobahns Wiki but I don't know how to do it :(

I couldn't find it by searching.
Could you please post the link.

Timon91

February 12th, 2009, 06:43 PM

Look over here (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=772068) :)

ChrisZwolle

February 12th, 2009, 07:15 PM

Me neither, I'm sure that Chris knows :D

Nope. I like the idea of a Highways & Autobahns wiki-database though.

Mateusz

February 12th, 2009, 07:29 PM

Yep, I am willing as much to put this great idea into life :)

It would be a ultimate databse of road infrastructure

wdw35

February 12th, 2009, 09:37 PM

I read the above-mentioned link (the "statistics" thread). I hope we don't make the same mistake here - i.e. everyone starts to list information from their country, randomly organized, before we agree on a clear format for the data.

My proposal is the following:

1. Go ahead and start expanding data on the data frame present at http://motorways-exitlists.com/. Here are some good examples on how some motorways are structured on this page:
http://motorways-exitlists.com/europe/h/m6.htm
http://motorways-exitlists.com/europe/a/a10.htm
http://motorways-exitlists.com/europe/d/a10.htm

Of course, before expanding on the history of construction, we could take out some less-relevant data (i.e. bridges or tunnels <200 m; maybe service areas...).
Also one should introduce a column with km chainage (at least when this doesn't correspond to exit number).
Of course, we should request permission from the creator of this great site, Michael Halabica.

2. In parallel, start creating a GIS/map based system with all the geographical information and links to tables.

aswnl

February 14th, 2009, 11:58 PM

ABRob

February 15th, 2009, 12:03 AM

I'd love to see more of this stuff for other countries.Germany (1935 - 2005):
small: http://map.ioer.de/website/autobahn/Flash_content.html
big: http://map.ioer.de/website/autobahn/flash2/Flash_content.html

source: http://map.ioer.de/website/autobahn/index.htm

H123Laci

February 16th, 2009, 02:42 PM

Motorways in Poland (without expressways):
http://nowedrogi.pl/autostrady.htm

1937........1983: quite a long break... :nuts:

you have quite a much work to do... say 2-3000km of mways... :)

H123Laci

February 16th, 2009, 02:49 PM

Germany (1935 - 2005):

wow.
that shorty with that strange moustache made quite a fast start... :lol:

Verso

February 16th, 2009, 02:53 PM

^^ Hitler was a motorway freak, he should be respected here. :D

ChrisZwolle

February 16th, 2009, 02:55 PM

No he wasn't. He just abused the motorway for propaganda values.

H123Laci

February 16th, 2009, 03:06 PM

No he wasn't. He just abused the motorway for propaganda values.

like our government? :lol:

Verso

February 16th, 2009, 03:13 PM

Indeed, last year, when we had elections, record 100 km of new motorways opened here (which is a huge number for such a small country).

H123Laci

February 16th, 2009, 05:16 PM

^^

yeah, indeed...

in case of hungary opening of 500km would be proportional to your achievement...
(our record is only somewhere between 250 and 300km...)

Verso

February 16th, 2009, 06:59 PM

^^ Which year were 250-300 km of motorways opened in Hungary?

AcidMan

February 17th, 2009, 10:06 AM

^^

Were? Will be 2010. Maybe. :lol:
[fingers crossed]

I need hardly say 2010 is elections year. :)

wdw35

February 17th, 2009, 02:10 PM

Let's try to stay on topic.
If you have something constructive to say about the dB innitiative, it is the place.
If not, please keep it to the .hu thread (or better, let's create an Austro-Hungarian Empire territory thread so we can successfully integrate a discussion like the one above...).

aswnl

February 21st, 2009, 04:53 PM

Germany (1935 - 2005):
small: http://map.ioer.de/website/autobahn/Flash_content.html
big: http://map.ioer.de/website/autobahn/flash2/Flash_content.html

source: http://map.ioer.de/website/autobahn/index.htmDanke für diese Links, ABRob !

ChrisZwolle

February 21st, 2009, 05:13 PM

Between 1935 and 1968, there was barely any Autobahn construction in Germany. But at least they already started with some kind of a system, most countries started from scratch in the 1960's.

ABRob

February 21st, 2009, 05:21 PM

And now brand-new, road-opening-map by http://autobahnatlas-online.de/

Map: http://autobahnatlas-online.de/Freigabenkarte.pdf
Legend: http://autobahnatlas-online.de/LegendeFreigaben.pdf

54°26′S 3°24′E

March 2nd, 2009, 07:24 PM

This is a summary of how the The Global Competitiveness Report 2008-2009 (http://www.weforum.org/documents/gcr0809/index.html) of the World Economic Forum rank the highways of the world:
http://media.aftenposten.no/archive/00980/_2702Veikvalitet_24_980130a.jpg
(For the full report, with country names in English, check the original report: http://www.weforum.org/documents/gcr0809/index.html. The report is made by interviewing 10-12 000 top leaders around the globe.

I am not sure whether the Dutch forumers agree that their roads (at 25th place) lag behind those of the UK (24) and Namibia (23), but Spain is even lower at 30th place. At least Norway is correctly placed at 48th place...

Lydon

March 2nd, 2009, 07:27 PM

There is no way Namibia's roads are ahead of South Africa's. Where do these people fall out of?

gramercy

March 2nd, 2009, 07:40 PM

Hungary as of 2008: 1174 km of highways
(until 2014, about 500 kms will be added)

Verso

March 2nd, 2009, 09:32 PM

ChrisZwolle

March 2nd, 2009, 09:34 PM

Road quality
1 = underdeveloped, 7 = most effective
International standard
Survey compromises 134 countries

So far for my Norwegian :D

Verso

March 2nd, 2009, 09:38 PM

Road quality

...is sth known only outside Belgium. :D Or Belgian ordinary roads are significantly better than motorways?

ChrisZwolle

March 2nd, 2009, 09:48 PM

No, they are worse :P

Well, it depends, they have improved quite some, especially in Flandres. E25 and E411 are fine now, E42 could be better.

Minato ku

March 2nd, 2009, 10:07 PM

I read the list in Norwegian, I didn't find France the first time.
I admit that I missed beginning of the list. :lol:
France = Frankrike

54°26′S 3°24′E

March 2nd, 2009, 10:12 PM

There is no way Namibia's roads are ahead of South Africa's. Where do these people fall out of?
"These people" are our leaders, not necessarily those that drive the most, of course. The difference betweeen SA and Namibia can perhaps be explained from traffic density. Namibia certainly has far lower car density than SA, and hence does not need as impressive roads in order to get the same level of effectiveness.
Infrastructure: "The page cannot be found". If Belgian roads are 11th in the world, it says a lot about the rank.
I think the HTML-page is dependent on IE-use. Try download the whole report: http://www.weforum.org/pdf/GCR08/GCR08.pdf

The full table is at page 386 (or page 398 in the pdf-document)

Italy is btw at 55th place, but then Italian roads outside the autostradas can be a bit scary at places...
Road quality
1 = underdeveloped, 7 = most effective
International standard
Survey compromises 134 countries

So far for my Norwegian :D
Not bad :) (although it should be "According to international standard", whatever that means.)

If it is any conciliation for you, NL ranks 8th while B ranks 19th in overall competitiveness.

Lydon

March 2nd, 2009, 10:44 PM

"These people" are our leaders, not necessarily those that drive the most, of course. The difference betweeen SA and Namibia can perhaps be explained from traffic density. Namibia certainly has far lower car density than SA, and hence does not need as impressive roads in order to get the same level of effectiveness.

Ah, that is true. The list is rather flawed in that case then.

Verso

March 2nd, 2009, 10:45 PM

The full table is at page 386

385. :P Ok, so it's about quality of road networks; I thought it was about quality of pavement. If pavement isn't considered at all, I can understand Belgium being 11th. But it should've been considered, that's the problem.

Timon91

March 3rd, 2009, 08:28 AM

Now I also understand why Congestistan is so low :D

SeanT

March 15th, 2009, 07:11 PM

bebe.2006

March 15th, 2009, 08:07 PM

Mexico (2006):

total: 356,945 km
paved: 178,473 km (includes 6,279 km of expressways)
unpaved: 178,472 km

So, you can say more then 50% of the roads are paved.

SeanT

March 15th, 2009, 09:03 PM

In Hungary.
ROADS (paved):31.240 Km
- main roads: 7.958 Km
- "E" roads: 2.204 Km
- motorways: 1.055 Km

RipleyLV

March 15th, 2009, 09:15 PM

http://i350.photobucket.com/albums/q420/Ripley9895/rdsinlv.jpg

ChrisZwolle

March 15th, 2009, 09:29 PM

Statsvejene

Vejdirektoratet har det fulde ansvar for at anlægge, drive og vedligeholde statsvejnettet, der er på ca. 3.800 km.
http://www.trafikken.dk/imageblob/image.asp?objno=/82255.GIF
The length of motorways= ~1500Km

Interesting, why are some 3-digit (Sekundærruten) owned by the state? Most do not seem to be owned by the state.

SeanT

March 15th, 2009, 10:01 PM

New Administrative Structure in Denmark

... Leading to Expansion of the Road Directorate
Since 2002, the Danish government has been working on a new administrative structure, reducing the number of municipalities from 172 to about 100, which will have a size of at least 30,000-50,000 inhabitants. Furthermore, it is planned that the present 13 counties will merge into a number of regions which will be responsible for healthcare and education. The structural changes will be in effect as of 2007.
A newly approved amendment to the act of the Danish road sector will lead to a doubling of the staff of the Road Directorate from app. 450 to some 900 employees. The main road network in Denmark will be administrated by the Road Directorate and the more local road network by the municipalities as of 2007. About 2,000 km or 1,240 mi. will be added to the national road network, served by the Road Directorate, in addition to the 1,700 km or 1,000 mi, administrated at present. Another 8,000 km or 4,960 mi will be transferred from the counties to the municipalities.
The Danish Road Directorate is currently planning the establishment of six Road Centres throughout the country.

Well, this could be an answer ChrisZwolle,:banana:...maybe not.

a12345678910

July 18th, 2009, 06:54 PM

Hi, tunisians momentaly highway length is 365 km, motor ways not inkluded...the highways will grow up to 1.200 km in the next 6 years and that for an small country...bye.

ChrisZwolle

June 18th, 2010, 05:37 PM

Tin_Can

June 18th, 2010, 05:41 PM

^
This only shows how low our population number is :D Paved road network isn't as dense as you'd think.

Xmaster

June 18th, 2010, 06:06 PM

Good table.
Maybe you also have such table with motorways per head statistics?

Koesj

June 18th, 2010, 06:23 PM

^^ Motorway lanes per (capita/country area) might be better

ChrisZwolle

June 18th, 2010, 06:26 PM

Calculating motorway lane mileage is an extremely time-consuming job. I once did it for the Randstad only, took me half a day (to find out the Randstad motorway lane mileage is similar to that of the lowest ranking metropolitan areas of the U.S: New York and Los Angeles).

arriaca

June 18th, 2010, 07:20 PM

Drawing from a discussion in the roadside rest area about paved road mileage per capita, I decided to make a list of European countries.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4013/4712085820_e0386698c8_o.png (http://www.flickr.com/photos/chriszwolle/4712085820/)

Ok, in Spain the road network is a little more than this

Red de Interés General del Estado: 26.041 km
Redes autonómicas: 71.084 km
Redes de diputaciones provinciales y cabildos insulares: 69.081 km
Otras redes: > 500.000 km

From Ministerio de Fomento

ChrisZwolle

June 18th, 2010, 07:35 PM

The list ONLY includes paved roads. In many countries, unpaved roads (that also includes little used agricultural roads!) accumulate for about 10 - 20% of the entire road network, in some countries even 50%.

Spain is such a country with vast agricultural areas, so I assume their number of unpaved roads is also larger than average.

Slagathor

June 19th, 2010, 09:25 PM

Man, we suck :D

Jeroen669

June 20th, 2010, 01:21 PM

So, where can I can get "my" 6,8 meters (1000/147) of paved road? :D

gnzlnho

June 21st, 2010, 12:25 AM

I(L)WTC

June 21st, 2010, 03:25 AM

edit

I(L)WTC

June 21st, 2010, 03:27 AM

The changed list contains only dual carriageway (four or more lanes), grade separated (access controlled, limited-access) roads:

Highways, motorways, expressways in length:

1) United States 75.009 km
2) China 55.000 km (growing over 4500km each year)
3) Germany 14.185 km
4) France 13.786 km
5) Spain 12.946 km
6) Brazil 11.000 km
7) Japan 6.946 km
8) Italy 6.621 km
9) Canada 6.165 km
10) Mexico 6.144 km (growing fast)
11) India 4885 km (seems unlikely to me)
12) Saudi Arabia 3348 km
13) Thailand 2885 km (are those all expressways?)
14) Chile 2653 km
15) Netherlands 2360 km
16) Iraq 2227 km (i don't think they are all motorways)
17) Pakistan 2225 km
18) Portugal 2002 km
19) Argentina 2000 km (aprox.)
20) South Korea 1996 km
21) South Africa 1927 km
22) Ukraine 1770 km (most of them are grade-expressways i guess)
23) Belgium 1729 km
24) Turkey 1726 km
25) Australia 1700 km
26) Sweden 1700 km
27) Austria 1677 km
28) Switzerland 1638 km
29) Malaysia 1471 km
30) United Arab Emirates 1392 km
31) Poland 1346 km
32) Venezuela 1256 km
33) Nigeria 1194 km
34) Morocco 1152 km
35) Croatia 1050 km
36) Griekenland 1030km
37) Denmark 1010km
38) Czechia 1002km
Egypt 988km ( i doubt of all these motorways are real motorways)
Syria 877km
Taiwan 872km
Hungary 860km
Russia 770km
Iran 751km
Belarus 750km
Finland 653km
Algeria 640km
Cuba 638km
Serbia 560km
Oman 550km
Lithuania 523km
Slovenia 442km
Kuwait 420km
Jordan 401km
Indonesia 385km (i thought they had more)
Norway 350 km
Qatar 333km
Uzbekistan 332km
Bulgaria 328km
El Salvador 327km
Slovakia 316km
Cyprus 276km
Peru 276km
Romania 266km
Dominican Republic 263km
Libya 262km
Uruguay 252km
Tunisia 249km
Cameroon 240km
Macedonia 192km
Philippines 170km ( i thought they had more)
Cote d’Ivoire 162km
Kenya 153km
Singapore 150km
Lebanon 145km
New Zealand 144km
Latvia 132km
Israel 126km
Luxembourg 114km
Myanmar 101km
Vietnam 100km (new motorways)
Estonia 75km
Zambia 50km
Ghana 35km
Jamaica 33km
Bahrain 30km
Gabon 30km
Guinea-Bissau 15km

ChrisZwolle

June 21st, 2010, 09:24 AM

That list is outdated anyway. China has 65.000 km and the USA 100.000 km

Lydon

June 21st, 2010, 12:58 PM

And South Africa has more than that :lol:

shiphone

June 23rd, 2010, 05:34 AM

11) India 4885 km (seems unlikely to me)

according to the wiki, the number is around 650. about 2500km is under construction or planned...

wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Expressway_%28India%29)

bebe.2006

October 21st, 2010, 11:10 AM

Source: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=11619612#post11619612 :

Let`s make some changes to the list by ChrisZwolle. All data from this thread.

Highways, motorways, expressways, freeways in length:

The modified Chris's list contains only dual carriageway (four or more lanes), grade separated (access controlled, limited-access) roads:

1) United States 100.000 km
2) China 75.000 km
3) Spain 14.000/15.000 km
4) Germany 14.185 km
5) France 13.786 km
6) Brazil 11.000 km
7) Japan 6.946 km
8) Italy 6.621 km
9) Canada 6.165 km
10) Mexico 6.144 km (growing fast)
11) United Kingdom 3421 km
12) Saudi Arabia 3348 km
13) Thailand 2885 km (are those all expressways?)
14) Chile 2653 km
15) Netherlands 2360 km
16) Iraq 2227 km (i don't think they are all motorways)
17) Pakistan 2225 km
18) Portugal 2002 km
19) Argentina 2000 km (aprox.)
20) South Korea 1996 km
21) South Africa 1927 km
22) Belgium 1729 km
23) Turkey 1726 km
24) Australia 1700 km
25) Sweden 1700 km
26) Austria 1677 km
27) Switzerland 1638 km
28) Poland 1498 km ( + about 1300 under construction)
29) Malaysia 1471 km
30) United Arab Emirates 1392 km
31) Taiwan 1335 km
32)Algeria 1300 km
33) Hungary 1288 km
34) Venezuela 1256 km
35) Nigeria 1194 km
36) Morocco 1152 km
37) Czechia 1147 km
38) Croatia 1050 km
39) Griekenland 1030 km
40) Denmark 1010 km
Egypt 988 km ( i doubt of all these motorways are real motorways)
Syria 877 km
Russia 770 km
Iran 751 km
Belarus 750 km
Argentina 734 km
Finland 653 km
India 650 km
Cuba 638 km
Slovakia 605 km
Serbia 560 km
Oman 550 km
Lithuania 523 km
Bulgaria 444 km
Slovenia 442 km
Kuwait 420 km
Jordan 401 km
Indonesia 385 km (i thought they had more)
Norway 350 km
Qatar 333 km
Uzbekistan 332 km
El Salvador 327 km
Cyprus 276 km
Peru 276 km
Romania 266 km
Dominican Republic 263 km
Libya 262 km
Uruguay 252 km
Tunisia 249 km
Cameroon 240 km
Ukraine 200 km
Macedonia 192 km
Philippines 170 km ( i thought they had more)
Cote d’Ivoire 162 km
Kenya 153 km
Singapore 150 km
Lebanon 145 km
New Zealand 144 km
Latvia 132 km
Israel 126 km
Luxembourg 114 km
Myanmar 101 km
Vietnam 100 km (new motorways)
Estonia 75 km
Zambia 50 km
Ghana 35 km
Jamaica 33 km
Bahrain 30 km
Gabon 30 km
Guinea-Bissau 15 km

GRAND TOTAL: about 300.000 km

You must notice, that a motorway in Cameroon or The Dominican Republic can completely differ from what we seen in Europe and the United States. Length shown here can be seen as highly controversial for some countries. Most data token from wikipedia or the CIA Factbook, and, in some rare cases, i figured it out with maps.

Sometimes, wikipedia doesn’t seems to be very accurate, for example they say Australia has about 16000kms of Expressway, which seems to me as highly unlikely.

Any comments or corrections are very welcome.

Before i starting to figure this out, i thought, there were some 270.000 kilometers of motorway/expressways on our globe, and, it seems to be i was quite close to that.

Restless

October 21st, 2010, 05:28 PM

I've amended the China figure below as they've added about 10000km in the past 10months. It should reach 76,114 km by the end of 2010.

Source: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=11619612#post11619612 :

Let`s make some changes to the list by ChrisZwolle. All data from this thread.

Highways, motorways, expressways, freeways in length:

The modified Chris's list contains only dual carriageway (four or more lanes), grade separated (access controlled, limited-access) roads:

1) United States 100.000 km
2) China 65.000 km (Dec-2009). 75.000km (estimated Oct-2010)
3) Germany 14.185 km
4) France 13.786 km
5) Spain 12.946 km
6) Brazil 11.000 km
7) Japan 6.946 km
8) Italy 6.621 km
9) Canada 6.165 km
10) Mexico 6.144 km (growing fast)
11) India 4885 km (seems unlikely to me) ??? or only 650 km ???
12) United Kingdom 3421 km
13) Saudi Arabia 3348 km
14) Thailand 2885 km (are those all expressways?)
15) Chile 2653 km
16) Netherlands 2360 km
17) Iraq 2227 km (i don't think they are all motorways)
18) Pakistan 2225 km
19) Portugal 2002 km
20) Argentina 2000 km (aprox.)
21) South Korea 1996 km
22) South Africa 1927 km
23) Ukraine 1770 km (most of them are grade-expressways i guess)
24) Belgium 1729 km
25) Turkey 1726 km
26) Australia 1700 km
27) Sweden 1700 km
28) Austria 1677 km
29) Switzerland 1638 km
30) Poland 1498 km
31) Malaysia 1471 km
32) United Arab Emirates 1392 km
33) Taiwan 1335 km
34) Venezuela 1256 km
35) Nigeria 1194 km
36) Hungary 1174 km
37) Morocco 1152 km
38) Czechia 1055 km
39) Croatia 1050 km
40) Griekenland 1030 km
41) Denmark 1010 km
Egypt 988 km ( i doubt of all these motorways are real motorways)
Syria 877 km
Russia 770 km
Iran 751km
Belarus 750km
Argentina 734km
Finland 653km
Algeria 640km
Cuba 638km
Serbia 560km
Oman 550km
Lithuania 523km
Slovenia 442km
Kuwait 420km
Jordan 401km
Indonesia 385km (i thought they had more)
Norway 350 km
Qatar 333km
Uzbekistan 332km
Bulgaria 328km
El Salvador 327km
Slovakia 316km
Cyprus 276km
Peru 276km
Romania 266km
Dominican Republic 263km
Libya 262km
Uruguay 252km
Tunisia 249km
Cameroon 240km
Macedonia 192km
Philippines 170km ( i thought they had more)
Cote d’Ivoire 162km
Kenya 153km
Singapore 150km
Lebanon 145km
New Zealand 144km
Latvia 132km
Israel 126km
Luxembourg 114km
Myanmar 101km
Vietnam 100km (new motorways)
Estonia 75km
Zambia 50km
Ghana 35km
Jamaica 33km
Bahrain 30km
Gabon 30km
Guinea-Bissau 15km

GRAND TOTAL: 259.027km

Muttie

October 24th, 2010, 09:49 AM

Im still confused with the list, are expressways counted yes or no? It would explain the weird high positions of some countries.

bebe.2006

October 24th, 2010, 09:55 PM

seem

October 24th, 2010, 10:26 PM

^^ Well. Some up to date info -

Slovakia has about 605 km of M/E (D/R) roads. (Thank God 110 km U/C and another 50 km or even more next year)
Cezch republic has 1 147 km.
Hungary has 1288,4 km.

I don't know how many but Spain has much more km of motorways. It is about 14000/15000.

mediar

October 25th, 2010, 08:16 AM

According to this post - http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=64693343&postcount=2954 , Bulgaria has 444km motorways and 164km under construction. The information has to be updated in the list above.

bebe.2006

October 25th, 2010, 09:26 AM

^^done

PLH

October 25th, 2010, 10:54 AM

No way Ukraine has 1770 km of grade separated, 2x2 roads.

ChrisZwolle

October 25th, 2010, 11:09 AM

I think Ukraine has around 200 kilometers of road that could be considered motorways. The 1770 km figure may be right for regular 2x2 roads, there are quite a lot of them.

abdeka

October 25th, 2010, 12:02 PM

Source: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=11619612#post11619612 :

Let`s make some changes to the list by ChrisZwolle. All data from this thread.

Highways, motorways, expressways, freeways in length:

The modified Chris's list contains only dual carriageway (four or more lanes), grade separated (access controlled, limited-access) roads:

1) United States 100.000 km
2) China 65.000 km
3) Spain 14.000/15.000 km
4) Germany 14.185 km
5) France 13.786 km
6) Brazil 11.000 km
7) Japan 6.946 km
8) Italy 6.621 km
9) Canada 6.165 km
10) Mexico 6.144 km (growing fast)
11) India 4885 km (seems unlikely to me) ??? or only 650 km ???
12) United Kingdom 3421 km
13) Saudi Arabia 3348 km
14) Thailand 2885 km (are those all expressways?)
15) Chile 2653 km
16) Netherlands 2360 km
17) Iraq 2227 km (i don't think they are all motorways)
18) Pakistan 2225 km
19) Portugal 2002 km
20) Argentina 2000 km (aprox.)
21) South Korea 1996 km
22) South Africa 1927 km
23) Ukraine 1770 km (most of them are grade-expressways i guess)
24) Belgium 1729 km
25) Turkey 1726 km
26) Australia 1700 km
27) Sweden 1700 km
28) Austria 1677 km
29) Switzerland 1638 km
30) Poland 1498 km
31) Malaysia 1471 km
32) United Arab Emirates 1392 km
33) Taiwan 1335 km
34) Hungary 1288 km
35) Venezuela 1256 km
36) Nigeria 1194 km
37) Morocco 1152 km
38) Czechia 1147 km
39) Croatia 1050 km
40) Griekenland 1030 km
41) Denmark 1010 km
Egypt 988 km ( i doubt of all these motorways are real motorways)
Syria 877 km
Russia 770 km
Iran 751km
Belarus 750km
Argentina 734km
Finland 653km
Algeria 640km (1300 km)
Cuba 638km
Slovakia 605km
Serbia 560km
Oman 550km
Lithuania 523km
Bulgaria 444 km
Slovenia 442km
Kuwait 420km
Jordan 401km
Indonesia 385km (i thought they had more)
Norway 350 km
Qatar 333km
Uzbekistan 332 km
El Salvador 327 km
Cyprus 276 km
Peru 276km
Romania 266km
Dominican Republic 263km
Libya 262km
Uruguay 252km
Tunisia 249km
Cameroon 240km
Macedonia 192km
Philippines 170km ( i thought they had more)
Cote d’Ivoire 162km
Kenya 153km
Singapore 150km
Lebanon 145km
New Zealand 144km
Latvia 132km
Israel 126km
Luxembourg 114km
Myanmar 101km
Vietnam 100km (new motorways)
Estonia 75km
Zambia 50km
Ghana 35km
Jamaica 33km
Bahrain 30km
Gabon 30km
Guinea-Bissau 15km

GRAND TOTAL: about 300.000 km

edit.

Muttie

October 25th, 2010, 06:49 PM

^^
The list contains all roads: highways, motorways, expressways, freeways...
those have dual carriageway (four or more lanes) and are grade separated (access controlled, limited-access).

Not only motorways.

So a road like this one below is also counted?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Fnideq-med.jpg

Just checking....

zlobna raca

October 25th, 2010, 06:58 PM

^^ Obviously, if it's grade separated and at least 2x2 it counts.

Ωρτimuş

October 25th, 2010, 07:01 PM

So a road like this one below is also counted?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Fnideq-med.jpg

Just checking....

This is a genuine Expressway, since it has a dual carriageway (with four lines), in which the two directions of traffic are separated by a central barrier, and with limited access and grade separated junctions
I guess yes i should be counted
Dual carriageway

A dual carriageway (divided highway) is a highway in which the two directions of traffic are separated by a central barrier or strip of land, known as a central reservation (median). It may also have limited access and grade separated junctions. Where more than 1 lane is provided in each direction this type of road is usually able to carry a great deal more traffic than normal single carriageways (undivided highways). A dual carriageway may described as dual single lane, dual 2-lane or dual 3-lane. In the United Kingdom the term is used for a road with divided carriageways that is not a motorway.

http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/7858/ukcarriagewayguidec.png

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_carriageway

Muttie

October 25th, 2010, 07:10 PM

In that case, the list should be updated -

Morocco has 1779 km at the moment then.

Next year over 300km will open. (A9)

Ωρτimuş

October 25th, 2010, 07:35 PM

In that case, the list should be updated -

Morocco has 1779 km at the moment then.

Next year over 300km will open. (A9)

In 2011 it should be 1420 km (Toll) Highways + 660 km (Free) Expressways
so the sum is 2080 km

http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/5953/infrastruttureetrasport.jpg

Muttie

October 25th, 2010, 07:57 PM

In 2011 it should be 1420 km (Toll) Highways + 660 km (Free) Expressways
so the sum is 2080 km

http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/5953/infrastruttureetrasport.jpg

2080 by the end of 2011. But im taking present day as a benchmark - because thats what this list is about.

dark_shadow1

October 28th, 2010, 12:02 AM

Source: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=11619612#post11619612 :

Let`s make some changes to the list by ChrisZwolle. All data from this thread.

Israel 126 km

This is extremely outdated- according to wikipedia the actual figure is 320 kilometers, highway 6 alone is 140 kilometers long:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_6_(Israel)
http://www.ppc.org.il/gallery/IMG_2373.jpg

lucaf1

October 28th, 2010, 12:11 AM

Italy 6.621 km

Superstrade are not included ;)

bebe.2006

October 28th, 2010, 05:05 AM

Italy 6.621 km

Superstrade are not included ;)

What do you mean?

________________________________

So a road like this one below is also counted?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Fnideq-med.jpg

Just checking....

I think we should count roads on that you can drive 80-120 km/h without stops: no crossroads, no traffic lights (except that it's a jam :)).
So, if a road like this one below is also counted? I would say yes.
________________________________

Source: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=11619612#post11619612 :

Let`s make some changes to the list by ChrisZwolle. All data from this thread.

Highways, motorways, expressways, freeways in length:

The modified Chris's list contains only dual carriageway (four or more lanes), grade separated (access controlled, limited-access) roads:

1) United States 100.000 km
2) China 75.000 km
3) Spain 14.689 km
4) Germany 14.185 km
5) France 13.786 km
6) Brazil 11.000 km
7) Italy 7.079 km
8) Japan 6.946 km
9) Canada 6.165 km
10) Mexico 6.144 km (growing fast)
11) United Kingdom 3421 km
12) Saudi Arabia 3348 km
13) Thailand 2885 km (are those all expressways?)
14) Chile 2653 km
15) Netherlands 2360 km
16) Iraq 2227 km (i don't think they are all motorways)
17) Pakistan 2225 km
18) Portugal 2002 km
19) Argentina 2000 km (aprox.)
20) South Korea 1996 km
21) South Africa 1927 km
22) Morocco 1779 km
23) Belgium 1729 km
24) Turkey 1726 km
25) Australia 1700 km
26) Sweden 1700 km
27) Austria 1677 km
28) Switzerland 1638 km
29) Poland 1503 km ( + about 1300 under construction)
30) Malaysia 1471 km
31) United Arab Emirates 1392 km
32) Taiwan 1335 km
33)Algeria 1300 km
34) Hungary 1288 km
35) Venezuela 1256 km
36) Nigeria 1194 km
37) Czechia 1147 km
38) Croatia 1050 km
39) Griekenland 1030 km
40) Denmark 1010 km
Egypt 988 km ( i doubt of all these motorways are real motorways)
Syria 877 km
Russia 770 km
Iran 751 km
Belarus 750 km
Argentina 734 km
Finland 653 km
India 650 km
Cuba 638 km
Slovakia 605 km
Slovenia 600 km
Serbia 560 km
Oman 550 km
Lithuania 523 km
Bulgaria 444 km
Kuwait 420 km
Jordan 401 km
Indonesia 385 km (i thought they had more)
Norway 350 km
Qatar 333 km
Uzbekistan 332 km
El Salvador 327 km
Israel 320 km
Cyprus 276 km
Peru 276 km
Romania 266 km
Dominican Republic 263 km
Libya 262 km
Uruguay 252 km
Tunisia 249 km
Cameroon 240 km
Ukraine 200 km
Macedonia 192 km
Philippines 170 km ( i thought they had more)
Cote d’Ivoire 162 km
Kenya 153 km
Singapore 150 km
Lebanon 145 km
New Zealand 144 km
Latvia 132 km
Luxembourg 114 km
Myanmar 101 km
Vietnam 100 km (new motorways)
Estonia 75 km
Zambia 50 km
Ghana 35 km
Jamaica 33 km
Bahrain 30 km
Gabon 30 km
Guinea-Bissau 15 km

GRAND TOTAL: about 300.000 km

You must notice, that a motorway in Cameroon or The Dominican Republic can completely differ from what we seen in Europe and the United States. Length shown here can be seen as highly controversial for some countries. Most data token from wikipedia or the CIA Factbook, and, in some rare cases, i figured it out with maps.

Sometimes, wikipedia doesn’t seems to be very accurate, for example they say Australia has about 16000kms of Expressway, which seems to me as highly unlikely.

Any comments or corrections are very welcome.

Before i starting to figure this out, i thought, there were some 270.000 kilometers of motorway/expressways on our globe, and, it seems to be i was quite close to that.

lucaf1

October 28th, 2010, 11:58 AM

What do you mean?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Italian_traffic_signs_-_Inizio_strada_extraurbana_principale.svg/424px-Italian_traffic_signs_-_Inizio_strada_extraurbana_principale.svg.png

http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/1281/immagineli.png

Verso

October 28th, 2010, 05:32 PM

If you're already making changes, you can change Slovenia to 600 km, it won't increase much anyway.

bebe.2006

October 29th, 2010, 05:20 AM

^^ So it means there are 6.621 km motorways in Italy. And then, there are also superstrades, right? Then the question is: How many superstrades do we have?

caserass

October 29th, 2010, 12:37 PM

Spain : 13872 km

lucaf1

October 29th, 2010, 12:48 PM

^^ So it means there are 6.621 km motorways in Italy. And then, there are also superstrades, right? Then the question is: How many superstrades do we have?

and then there are also raccordi autostradali.

Raccordi autostradali (total 418 km) are all dual carriageway, some are autostrada (277 km), some are strada extraurbana principale (aka superstrada) some are strada extraurbana secondaria (without emergency lane).

Exemple:

RA2 Salerno Avellino (autostrada) managed by ANAS

http://i47.tinypic.com/332qvyp.jpg

RA3 Firenze Siena (strada extraurbana secondaria even if dual carriageway with same restriction of superstrade) managed by ANAS
http://i47.tinypic.com/52kop4.jpg

RA5 Sicignano (A3)-Potenza (autostrada) managed by ANAS
http://i50.tinypic.com/se8zkm.jpg

RA6 Bettolle (A1) -Perugia managed by Anas
http://i45.tinypic.com/10ygm7l.jpg

RA9 A16 - Benevento (autostrada) managed by ANAS
http://i47.tinypic.com/2qiclsm.jpg

RA12 Chieti Pescara (autostrada) managed by ANAS
http://i45.tinypic.com/2s0bjpg.jpg

SO:

+6.661,3 km MOTORWAY
+277 KM of RACCORDI AUTOSTRADALI classified as MOTORWAY
+141 KM of RACCORDI AUTOSTRADALI with DUAL CARRIAGEWAY
+??? KM of STRADA EXTRAURBANA PRINCIPALE
+??? KM of STRADA EXTRAURBANA SECONDARIA with DUAL CARRIAGEWAY with/without emergency lane with/without access restriction (no bycicle, ... )

----------------------------------------------------------------------------

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Rete_autostradale_italiana_con_superstrade.svg/425px-Rete_autostradale_italiana_con_superstrade.svg.png
(C) Gigillo83 @ http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rete_autostradale_italiana_con_superstrade.svg

This map shows all autostrade/category A (green).

List:
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autostrade_in_Italia

This map also shows all 17 RA-raccordi autostradali.
Raccordi autostradali are all two lanes and are all two carriageways.
Raccordi autostradali can be classified as:
*autostrada/category A (green)
*strada extraurbana principale/category B (blue)
*strada extraurbana secondaria/category C (blue) with two carriageways and with access restrictions. In this case the emergency lane is often absent.

List: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raccordo_autostradale#RA-Raccordi_autostradali

This map also shows superstrade longer than 30 km (blue).
Superstrada can be classified as:
*strada extraurbana principale (category B)
*strada extraurbana secondaria (category C) with two carriageways (with access restrictions or without; with emergency lane or without)

List:
Superstrade > 30km: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superstrada#A_carreggiate_separate

Eddard Stark

October 29th, 2010, 01:00 PM

and then there are also raccordi autostradali.

Raccordi autostradali (total 418 km) are all dual carriageway, some are autostrada (277 km), some are strada extraurbana principale (aka superstrada) some are strada extraurbana secondaria (without emergency lane).

Exemple:

RA2 Salerno Avellino (autostrada) managed by ANAS

http://i47.tinypic.com/332qvyp.jpg

RA3 Firenze Siena (strada extraurbana secondaria even if dual carriageway with same restriction of superstrade) managed by ANAS
http://i47.tinypic.com/52kop4.jpg

RA5 Sicignano (A3)-Potenza (autostrada) managed by ANAS
http://i50.tinypic.com/se8zkm.jpg

RA6 Bettolle (A1) -Perugia managed by Anas
http://i45.tinypic.com/10ygm7l.jpg

RA9 A16 - Benevento (autostrada) managed by ANAS
http://i47.tinypic.com/2qiclsm.jpg

RA12 Chieti Pescara (autostrada) managed by ANAS
http://i45.tinypic.com/2s0bjpg.jpg

SO:

+6.661,3 km MOTORWAY
+277 KM of RACCORDI AUTOSTRADALI classified as MOTORWAY
+141 KM of RACCORDI AUTOSTRADALI with DUAL CARRIAGEWAY
+??? KM of STRADA EXTRAURBANA PRINCIPALE
+??? KM of STRADA EXTRAURBANA SECONDARIA with DUAL CARRIAGEWAY with/without emergency lane with/without access restriction (no bycicle, ... )

----------------------------------------------------------------------------

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Rete_autostradale_italiana_con_superstrade.svg/425px-Rete_autostradale_italiana_con_superstrade.svg.png
(C) Gigillo83 @ http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rete_autostradale_italiana_con_superstrade.svg

This map shows all autostrade/category A (green).

List:
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autostrade_in_Italia

This map also shows all 17 RA-raccordi autostradali.
Raccordi autostradali are all two lanes and are all two carriageways.
Raccordi autostradali can be classified as:
*autostrada/category A (green)
*strada extraurbana principale/category B (blue)
*strada extraurbana secondaria/category C (blue) with two carriageways and with access restrictions. In this case the emergency lane is often absent.

List: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raccordo_autostradale#RA-Raccordi_autostradali

This map also shows superstrade longer than 30 km (blue).
Superstrada can be classified as:
*strada extraurbana principale (category B)
*strada extraurbana secondaria (category C) with two carriageways (with access restrictions or without; with emergency lane or without)

List:
Superstrade > 30km: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superstrada#A_carreggiate_separate

of course there are many more superstrade, especially around towns.

Some +30km superstrade here are also lacking,as this is not very updated.

pepin0

October 29th, 2010, 07:42 PM

Spain : 13872 km
in 2006. Now over 14.689 km (+under construction)

bebe.2006

November 1st, 2010, 09:43 PM

big-dog

January 7th, 2011, 07:01 AM

China's expressways ends up being 74,000 km by the end of 2010.

Let`s make some changes to the list by ChrisZwolle. All data from this thread.

Highways, motorways, expressways, freeways in length:

The modified Chris's list contains only dual carriageway (four or more lanes), grade separated (access controlled, limited-access) roads:

1) United States 100.000 km
2) China 75.000 km
3) Spain 14.689 km
4) Germany 14.185 km
5) France 13.786 km
6) Brazil 11.000 km
7) Italy 7.079 km
8) Japan 6.946 km
9) Canada 6.165 km
10) Mexico 6.144 km (growing fast)
11) United Kingdom 3421 km
12) Saudi Arabia 3348 km
13) Thailand 2885 km (are those all expressways?)
14) Chile 2653 km
15) Netherlands 2360 km
16) Iraq 2227 km (i don't think they are all motorways)
17) Pakistan 2225 km
18) Portugal 2002 km
19) Argentina 2000 km (aprox.)
20) South Korea 1996 km
21) South Africa 1927 km
22) Morocco 1779 km
23) Belgium 1729 km
24) Turkey 1726 km
25) Australia 1700 km
26) Sweden 1700 km
27) Austria 1677 km
28) Switzerland 1638 km
29) Poland 1503 km ( + about 1300 under construction)
30) Malaysia 1471 km
31) United Arab Emirates 1392 km
32) Taiwan 1335 km
33)Algeria 1300 km
34) Hungary 1288 km
35) Venezuela 1256 km
36) Nigeria 1194 km
37) Czechia 1147 km
38) Croatia 1050 km
39) Griekenland 1030 km
40) Denmark 1010 km
Egypt 988 km ( i doubt of all these motorways are real motorways)
Syria 877 km
Russia 770 km
Iran 751 km
Belarus 750 km
Argentina 734 km
Finland 653 km
India 650 km
Cuba 638 km
Slovakia 605 km
Slovenia 600 km
Serbia 560 km
Oman 550 km
Lithuania 523 km
Bulgaria 444 km
Kuwait 420 km
Jordan 401 km
Indonesia 385 km (i thought they had more)
Norway 350 km
Qatar 333 km
Uzbekistan 332 km
El Salvador 327 km
Israel 320 km
Cyprus 276 km
Peru 276 km
Romania 266 km
Dominican Republic 263 km
Libya 262 km
Uruguay 252 km
Tunisia 249 km
Cameroon 240 km
Ukraine 200 km
Macedonia 192 km
Philippines 170 km ( i thought they had more)
Cote d’Ivoire 162 km
Kenya 153 km
Singapore 150 km
Lebanon 145 km
New Zealand 144 km
Latvia 132 km
Luxembourg 114 km
Myanmar 101 km
Vietnam 100 km (new motorways)
Estonia 75 km
Zambia 50 km
Ghana 35 km
Jamaica 33 km
Bahrain 30 km
Gabon 30 km
Guinea-Bissau 15 km

GRAND TOTAL: about 300.000 km

ChrisZwolle

January 7th, 2011, 08:29 AM

By 2050, China will likely have more motorways/expressways than the rest of the world combined.

hammersklavier

January 7th, 2011, 03:57 PM

^^ I dunno about that. More than 90% of China's population lives in the eastern half of the country. There is little need to build more than a handful of expressways out in Xinjiang or Tibet, e.g. those from the heartland out to Lhasa, Urumqi, Kashgar, etc., and ringroads around the most populous of those.

Verso

January 7th, 2011, 04:01 PM

^^ I doubt that; what about India and other countries? And don't forget that only eastern China will have many expressways, not western.

EDIT: hammersklavier was faster.

seem

January 7th, 2011, 04:03 PM

If you're already making changes, you can change Slovenia to 600 km, it won't increase much anyway.

Nice. 600 km = but you have all main motorways and basically your motorway network is completed. We have a bit more than 600 km but we even don't have a motorway between two biggest cities. Just a second, yes we do! Via Hungary!

Next year it will be about 700 km I think. :cheers:

ChrisZwolle

January 7th, 2011, 04:07 PM

oliver999

January 7th, 2011, 04:21 PM

So a road like this one below is also counted?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Fnideq-med.jpg

Just checking....

not by chinese standard,because it's not closed both side.

Verso

January 7th, 2011, 04:38 PM

The Chinese Expressway network is supposed to be 250.000 kilometers long.

But if there're about 225,000 km of motorways outside China now, there will surely have been more than 250,000 km by 2050, don't you think?

g.spinoza

January 7th, 2011, 04:49 PM

lucaf1, thank you for the detailed list for Italy. What we have now is: 6661 + 277 + 141 = 7079 km

+??? KM of STRADA EXTRAURBANA PRINCIPALE
+??? KM of STRADA EXTRAURBANA SECONDARIA

unknown

Italian superstrade are a nightmare for those who like a little bit of clear classifications.

As soon as I have some spare time I will start counting the most important superstrade and try to give an approximate figure about their extensions.

Restless

January 7th, 2011, 04:52 PM

So a road like this one below is also counted?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Fnideq-med.jpg

Just checking....

I think the gradient looks too steep and the curves too extreme for an expressway. Plus it's not really grade separated and where are the breakdown lanes at the side?

michal_OMB

January 7th, 2011, 05:07 PM

in Poland is 1602 km - http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1142261

fragel

January 7th, 2011, 09:37 PM

China's expressways ends up being 74,000 km by the end of 2010.

This number in the table only covers expressways. I think a lot of Chinese Class I highways should be counted since they also meet the requirement in this post:
dual carriageway (four or more lanes), grade separated (access controlled, limited-access) roads

Class I highway may be only partially access controlled, for example
http://www.tengdajs.com/uploadfile/201012/20101209155216309.jpg

But there are many Class I roads which are fully access controlled, and they are not included in the 74,000km of expressways network. For instance

西湟一级公路 XiHuang Class I Highway
http://www.qhjt.gov.cn/upload/www.qhjt.gov.cn/image/2010/10/19/1287450437925.jpg

西柏坡一级公路 Xibaipo Class I Highway
http://www.chinahighway.com/imgs/2009-08/600.jpg

横坪一级公路 Hengping Class I Highway
http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/22153681.jpg

The problem is that there is no classification of 'dual carriageway, grade separated roads' in China, it is either expressway(freeway) or Class I-IV highway, so it is hard to count the length of grade separated Class I highways.

Muttie

January 8th, 2011, 11:10 AM

I think the gradient looks too steep and the curves too extreme for an expressway. Plus it's not really grade separated and where are the breakdown lanes at the side?

Not all expressways have breakdown-lanes (look at the first class I highway pic in China for example), and to me this looks pretty seperated. The max speed on this road is 80-100 km/h and is based on its french counterparts.

Apparently the definition of an expressway differs heavily from region to region.

Where I live, we make distinction between normal N roads - expressways and autoroutes.

This is an autoroute:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4087/5170911502_6fa7cb6356_b.jpg

This is seen an expressway:

http://i55.tinypic.com/ws2xae.jpg

nerdly_dood

January 9th, 2011, 04:15 AM

So how do different countries rank in terms of length of autoroute/Interstate-comparable highways?

bubach_hlubach

January 9th, 2011, 05:43 AM

Croatian motorway network as of September 2010 consists of 1124.9 km, not 1050 km. 75 kilometers can make a huuuge difference! :lol: :nuts: :lol:

A1 - 454.5 km
A2 - 59.0 km
A3 - 306.5 km
A4 - 96.4 km
A5 - 55.0 km
A6 - 81.2 km
A7 - 35.7 km
A9 - 27.6 km
A11 - 9.0 km

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highways_in_Croatia

:cheers:

Chrissib

January 12th, 2011, 02:12 AM

The Chinese Expressway network is supposed to be 250.000 kilometers long.

India will probably develop a large network as well, but its geography won't require as much expressways as it will in China. At least 18 more east-west and 9 more north-south expressways are planned in China.

The motorway-network in the Ganges valley will be incredibly dense. Imagine an area of 500,000km² with the motorway density of the Dutch randstad.

Restless

January 12th, 2011, 11:01 AM

The Class 1 highway in China is not classified as an expressway.

They're regarded as 2 separate categories for statistical purposes.

Not all expressways have breakdown-lanes (look at the first class I highway pic in China for example), and to me this looks pretty seperated. The max speed on this road is 80-100 km/h and is based on its french counterparts.

Apparently the definition of an expressway differs heavily from region to region.

Where I live, we make distinction between normal N roads - expressways and autoroutes.

This is an autoroute:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4087/5170911502_6fa7cb6356_b.jpg

This is seen an expressway:

http://i55.tinypic.com/ws2xae.jpg

ngfede

January 15th, 2011, 03:36 AM

updating the list we count

Argentina:
Highways ~1700 km.
Expressway ~350 km. (autovia nº 2)

Total: ~2050 km.

Projected to future: +15.000 km.
Link: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=70666357#post70666357

goliath01

January 20th, 2011, 12:36 AM

Hey guys, here are South Africas numbers, I do however think that these arent up-to-date, as their have been massive upgrades these last few years and much more going on.:)

Roads in South Africa are classified as follows:

· National Highway Roads - these are classified by a number and having the letter "N" before them. Examples of these roads are the N1 and N2 from Cape Town, the N3 from Durban to Johannesburg and the N6 from East London to Bloemfontein.
· Metropolitan Freeways - these are noted by a number with the "M" prefix.
· The Provincial Main Roads - identified by the letter "R". Examples are the R21 from Pretoria to Johannesburg International Airport and the R27 from Cape Town to Upington.
· Gravel Roads and secondary roads that are surfaced, and these are classified with a number.
· Urban streets and roads in the major cities and towns of South Africa.
· Generally unclassified roads. These roads are located off the beaten track in rural countryside areas.

In total, there are just under 760,000 kilometers of road network in South Africa. Nearly 10,000 km of fully surfaced National Highway toads and metropolitan freeways. This total includes over 2,400 km of toll roads that are fully surfaced.

56,000km of Provincial roads are completely surfaced to a very high quality finish.

There are 300,000km of gravel roads that are in very good condition and are perfect to drive on with just a two-wheel drive vehicle.

There are almost 170,000km of surfaced and non-surfaced roads in urban areas that are in excellent driving condition.

Over 220,000 km of unclassified roads that are located in rural country areas. The majority of these are perfect driving conditions for two wheel drive vehicles.

In fact, there are very few roads in South Africa that are totally exclusive for four wheel drive vehicles. This includes the National Parks that are largely self-drive parks, and the safari areas that are off the beaten track. Most of the National roads have a tarred surface and are in excellent driving condition. Obviously the more rural the road, the more possibility that it will have a poor driving surface and have pot holes and plenty of bumps!

In South Africa, many of the national highways that connect the major centres are toll roads, for example the N1 and N2. It is important to check out the toll fees before you embark on your journey and ensure that you have the cash/credit card on hand to pay to gain access! The average fees for a standard light two wheel drive vehicle range up to 50 South Africa Rands.
http://ezinearticles.com/?Types-of-Roads-in-South-Africa&id=3049989
Our roads,...

Or, another site just for confirmation...

The highways, freeways and provincial main roads in South Africa are built and maintained to the highest possible standards. Together with safe South Africa driving conditions you are ensured of a smooth and safe ride. All our national highways have petrol stations with restaurants, restrooms and shops dispersed along the route.

The entire network of roads in South Africa comes to a total of 755,000 kilometres, classified as follows;
9,600 km of surfaced national highways and metropolitan freeways, including 2,400 km of toll roads of the highest standard. National highways are identified by a number with the prefix “N”. Metropolitan freeways are identified by a number with the prefix “M”.

56,000 km of surfaced provincial roads of a very high standard. Provincial roads are identified by a number with the prefix “R”.

300,000 km of gravel roads in excellent condition, usually identified by just a number. Perfectly driveable with an ordinary 2WD vehicle.

168,000 km of surfaced and non-surfaced urban roads in good condition.

221,000 km unclassified roads in rural areas. South Africa driving conditions of most of them are good enough for ordinary 2WD vehicles.
http://www.south-africa-tours-and-travel.com/south-africa-driving.html

ChrisZwolle

February 19th, 2011, 12:03 PM

I compiled an updated list for Europe. If you think there are errors let me know.

http://i.imgur.com/E4sYl.png

lucaf1

February 19th, 2011, 12:54 PM

Italy:
6.661,3 (31 12 2009 http://www.aiscat.it/pubblicazioni/downloads/trim_3_4_2009.pdf ) +

277 (RA classified as motorways) =

6938,3 km

RustySword

February 19th, 2011, 04:11 PM

@ChrisZwolle
Why not from the longest to the shortest?

lucaf1

February 19th, 2011, 05:46 PM

@ChrisZwolle

Spain: autopistas and autovias
Italy: only autostrade and not superstrade
Germany: autobahn and gelbe autobahn?

ChrisZwolle

February 19th, 2011, 05:56 PM

Spain: motorways (Autovías and Autopistas)
Italy: motorways (Autostrade)
Germany: motorways (Autobahnen)

I do have the near exact figure for German Autobahnähnliche Straßen, but I do not have precise figures about the Italian Superstrade.

lucaf1

February 19th, 2011, 06:11 PM

According to the law (Ley 25/1988, de 29 de julio, de Carreteras http://noticias.juridicas.com/base_datos/Admin/l25-1988.html#) autovias are not motorways/autopistas.

IMHO it is appropriate to do a ranking considering only motorways not including gelbe autobahn, superstrade and autovias.

In fact, the definition of motorways is similar in many countries. The definition of dual carriageway is different and especially the data are not available uniformly

khoojyh

February 19th, 2011, 06:15 PM

India and Indonesia are totally out of what we expected.

I nvr been to Indonesia but India. India have to learn to make the road evenly build before they plan more motorway or expressway.

I believe those who visit Delhi or Mumbai will ask the same question as i ask "where is the expressway" "this is expressway???"

ChrisZwolle

February 19th, 2011, 08:41 PM

According to the law (Ley 25/1988, de 29 de julio, de Carreteras http://noticias.juridicas.com/base_datos/Admin/l25-1988.html#) autovias are not motorways/autopistas.

That law was created to apply Autovía status to the radials of Madrid. Virtually all Spanish Autovías built since are of the exact samen design standard as Autopistas. Only their function is slightly different.

There are good reasons to consider Autovías as full motorways like in any other country, the speed limit is 120 km/h to begin with, which is higher than any other expressway system except for some German Autobahnähnliche Straßen and the Polish 2x2 S-roads since January 1st or even higher than some motorway systems (Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom, until recently Denmark too).

Gadiri

February 20th, 2011, 06:25 AM

Morocan highways

Now : 1096 km (RN8-Agadir)
June 2011 : 1416 km (Fes-Oujda)
2015 : 1800 km

http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/9126/dossierdepressevf06.jpg (http://img510.imageshack.us/i/dossierdepressevf06.jpg/)
http://www.adm.co.ma/ click on "dossier de presse"

malegi

February 22nd, 2011, 07:31 PM

OK,
the rank of Highways(at least 4 lanes)

The world:230,000 kilometers

1.USA:90,000 kilometers
2.China(mainland):40,000 kilometers
3.Canada:16,500 kilometers
4.Germany:11,000 kilometers
5.France:10,000 kilometers

Brazil has 11,000 kilometers of highways (at least 4 lanes). Soon it will be around 12,000km.

lucaf1

February 22nd, 2011, 07:41 PM

There are good reasons to consider Autovías as full motorways

I agree.

But a ranking with no comparable data (yes autovias; not gelbe autobahn, ...) is not a ranking ;)

Positronn

February 23rd, 2011, 01:51 AM

Brazil has 11,000 kilometers of highways (at least 4 lanes). Soon it will be around 12,000km.

If it is considered the same standards, all the listed countries have more than that. Brazil 11,000km highway system has a much smaller portion with grade separation and minimum radius for curvees.

poshbakerloo

February 23rd, 2011, 02:59 AM

An interesting map of the UK network...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/UK_motorway_map.png

m56phil

February 23rd, 2011, 01:25 PM

Theres quite a bit missing on the above map....

M6 Connection to Scottish border missing.
M23 looks abit short?
M45 Missing
M55 Not connected to the M6
M57 Missing
M58 Missing
M61 Not connected to the M60
M181 Missing (ok its tiny)
M271 Missing (ok its tiny too)
A1(M) Missing in Cambridgeshire and all of Yorkshire...

must be at least 150km in total missing from this map.......

Also, technically it shouldnt be on it yet, but the M80 in Central scotland will be linked up, fixing yet again another missing link.

Alex Roney

February 23rd, 2011, 11:32 PM

If it is considered the same standards, all the listed countries have more than that. Brazil 11,000km highway system has a much smaller portion with grade separation and minimum radius for curvees.

I feel as if that's the case for the vast majority of developing countries, their figures are probably all inflated as well. I've been recently interested in Brazil's highway system, their seems to be some work done but I think theirs a lack of vision in various projects they seem very "local" by nature. Brazil needs a visionary project that seeks to connect most state capitals with a proper motor way, you see quite a few projects of a few kilometers here and there but nothing of a large state by state basis. I guess the BR 101 projects is the exception to that rule.