let's make a list of European motorways' homepages or homepages of motorways' concessionaires.
http://www.hac.hrCroatian motorways
http://www.arz.hrCroatian A1/A6 Zagreb - Rijeka
http://www.bina-istra.hrCroatian B8/B9 "Istarski ipsilon"
http://www.dars.siSlovenian motorways
http://www.autostrade.itItalian motorways
http://www.autoroutes.frFrench motorways
http://http://www.asf.frFrench Autoroutes du Sud
http://http://www.highways.skSlovakian motorways
http://www.ceskedalnice.czCzech motorways

continue

Autostrada Torino - Milano http://www.autostradatomi.it/
Autostrada del Brennero http://www.autobrennero.it/
Autovie Venete http://www.autovie.it/flah/index.html
ASFINAG Autobahnen- und Schnellstraßen- Finanzierungs- AG Austria http://www.asfinag.at
Vägverket Sweden http://www.vagverket.se/
AZM Autocesta zagreb - Macelj (Croatia, A2) www.azm.hr

Dutch:
http://www.autosnelwegen.nl includes a very good forum
http://www.autosnelwegen.net road and exit lists from NL, BE, LUX
http://www.roadpics.net LOTS of pics!
http://autosnelwegen.web-log.nl news weblog
http://www.highway-intersections.net (in English) Dutch and foreign interchanges
http://wegnummers.autosnelwegen.nl extensive site with rarities
http://www.rijkswaterstaat.nl Dutch government infrastructure ministry
http://www.belgianroads.tk Belgian hobby site
http://www.geocities.com/marcelmonterie English spoken site about roadnumbering systems.
http://www.vid.nl Dutch Traffic Information Center

French motorways compagnies
It is only for Toll motorways

Federation of french motorway compagnies (http://www.autoroutes.fr/)

Alis (http://www.alis-sa.com/)
Paris Rhin Rhones (http://www.parisrhinrhone.com/)
Rhones Alpes (http://www.area-autoroutes.fr/)
Autoroutes du Sud de la France (http://www.asf.fr/)
Autoroute du tunnel du Mont Blanc (http://www.atmb.net/)
Cofiroute (http://www.cofiroute.fr/)
Escota (http://www.escota.com/)
Sanef (http://www.sanef.com/)
Autoroutes Paris Normandie (http://www.sapn.fr/)
Sftrf (http://www.sftrf.fr/)
Tunnel du Prado (http://www.tunnelprado.com/)

http://http://www.highways.skSlovakian motorways


one more from Slovakia : dialnice.info(only Slovak) (http://dialnice.info/)

Great thread! Some more:

Hungarian motorways (http://www.motorway.hu/Engine.aspx)
Hungarian M5 motorway (http://www.aka.hu/angol/FirstPage.htm)
Hungarian motorways (http://www.nart.hu/) (in Hungarian only)
Roads of Serbia (http://www.dzp.co.yu/)
Russian highways (http://www.rosavtodor.ru/en/)
Ukrainian highways (http://www.ukravtodor.gov.ua/#) (in Ukrainian only)
Lviv - Poland motorway (http://www.transmag.lviv.ua/en/index.htm)
Finnish highways (http://www.tiehallinto.fi/servlet/page?_pageid=68&_dad=julia&_schema=PORTAL30&kieli=en&_pageid=68)
Estonian highways (http://www.mnt.ee/atp/?keel=en)
Latvian highways (http://www.lad.lv/EN/?i=1)
Lithuanian highways (http://www.lra.lt/en.php/about_lra/general_information/101)
Polish A2 motorway (http://www.autostrada-a2.pl/en/)
Polish A4 motorway (http://www.autostrada-a4.pl/index.php?lang=ang)
Swiss motorways (http://www.autobahnen.ch/index.php?lg=001&page=001)

Greece:

http://www.aodos.gr
http://www.egnatia.gr/
http://www.pathe.gr/ (website is under construction)
http://www.gefyra.gr/

Germany:
http://www.autobahn-online.de (including a very good forum with a rarely used english sub)
http://www.autobahnatlas-online.de (photos, detailed stretch-information, good map showing # of lanes)

more from Czechia:

České Dálnice (http://www.ceskedalnice.cz/en/english.htm)
Road and Motorway Directorate (http://www.rsd.cz/rsd/rsd.nsf/ed/EN)
Silnice-Dálnice (http://www.dalnice-silnice.cz/)
Dálnice (http://www.dalnice.com/)
D47 Motorway (http://www.viamoravica.cz/)
Prague Outer Bypass (http://www.okruhprahy.cz/)
Brno City Circle (http://www.brno.cz/projekty/)
R43 Expressway (http://www.brno.cz/index.php?nav01=88&nav02=89&nav03=3180)

UK:

www.highways.gov.uk (the official site)
www.cbrd.co.uk
www.sabre-roads.org.uk
www.pathetic.org.uk (this one is fun!)

I love that british pathetic roads site, very funny:)

more from Italy:
Naples city motorway(tangenziale) http://www.tangenzialedinapoli.it/
Venezia-Padova http://www.autovepd.it/
Autostrada Brescia-Verona-Vicenza-Padova http://www.autobspd.it/home.do
Autostrada dei fiori http://www.autofiori.it/
Salt http://www.salt.it/
Torino-Savona http://www.tosv.it/default.asp
Serravalle http://www.serravalle.it/pages/common/page_rete_tratteautostradali/?languageID=ita
Autocisa http://www.autocisa.com/
Telepass http://www.telepass.it/AutostradeETIWeb/indexL.jsp

Some other official sites

Vlaanderen (Flanders)
http://www.wegen.vlaanderen.be
http://www.verkeerscentrum.be
http://www.wegeninfo.be

Nederland (Netherlands)
http://www.verkeerenwaterstaat.nl or http://www.minvenw.nl
http://www.08008002-rijkswaterstaat.nl (official Q&A-site in Dutch)

More on the highway-service-districts in the Netherlands:
http://www.weginspecteur.nl

Why are most European countries building two-lane roads...:ohno: at least 3 in my opinion

^^^^ I would like to find a map of entire Europe, that shows its motorways network, something like you can find on the railways thread, for the railway sistem. I always find maps of certain countries or regions:ohno: , but what I want is a more global (zoomed-out, but that doesn't mean it suould be with fewer details: map scale is not that important) picture or map. It's not necessary for you to post the maps, but just the links. thank you wery much in advance! :cheers: It would be nice to see Eureope cowered with such a network!:)

^^ Here you go. The 'Eastern Europe' is fu*ked up (except for Poland and the Czech Republic), so don't take it too seriously. If you have any questions, just ask.

http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/9428/europehl0.png (http://imageshack.us)

:cheers:

French motorways compagnies
It is only for Toll motorways

Federation of french motorway compagnies (http://www.autoroutes.fr/)

ALIS (Autoroute de Liaison Seine-Sarthe) (http://www.alis-sa.com/)
APRR (Autoroutes Paris-Rhin-Rhône) (http://www.parisrhinrhone.com/)
AREA (Les Autoroutes Rhône-Alpes) (http://www.area-autoroutes.fr/)
ASF (Autoroutes du Sud de la France) (http://www.asf.fr/)
ATMB (Autoroute du tunnel du Mont Blanc) (http://www.atmb.net/)
Cofiroute (Compagnie Industrielle et Financière des Autoroutes) (http://www.cofiroute.fr/)
Escota (Société des autoroutes Esterel-Côte d'Azur) (http://www.escota.com/)
Sanef, Société des Autoroutes du Nord et de l'Est de la France (http://www.sanef.com/)
SAPN (Société des autoroutes Paris-Normandie) (http://www.sapn.fr/)
SFTRF (Société Française du Tunnel Routier du Fréjus) (http://www.sftrf.fr/)
Tunnel du Prado (http://www.tunnelprado.com/)

Plus
ADELAC (A41 Nord) (http://www.adelac-a41.com/)
ARCOUR (A19, Artenay-Courtenay) (http://www.arcour-a19.com/)
CEVM (Compagnie Eiffage du Viaduc de Millau) ("http://www.leviaducdemillau.com/)

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^^ Here you go. The 'Eastern Europe' is fu*ked up (except for Poland and the Czech Republic), so don't take it too seriously. If you have any questions, just ask.

http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/9428/europehl0.png (http://imageshack.us)

:cheers:^^
I don't take it too seriously coz it is NOT accurate and that is why I can't find any decent and CORRECT map....
just looka at Hungary or Croatio....completely unaccurate, but thanks aniway :lol:

^^
I don't take it too seriously coz it is NOT accurate and that is why I can't find any decent and CORRECT map....
just looka at Hungary or Croatio....completely unaccurate, but thanks aniway :lol:

the best what you can find is http://www.viamichelin.com. some .jpg or something like that is impossible to make - too much roads on too less space

^^
I don't take it too seriously coz it is NOT accurate and that is why I can't find any decent and CORRECT map....
just looka at Hungary or Croatio....completely unaccurate, but thanks aniway :lol:

Yes, but at least it's more or less accurate for the 'Western Europe'.

Yes, but at least it's more or less accurate for the 'Western Europe'.

Well, Spain and France are missing a lot of sections on that map.

Spain has the biggest motorwaysystem of Europe.

^ Oh come on, you're talking about a few kilometers.

Well, Spain and France are missing a lot of sections on that map.

Spain has the biggest motorwaysystem of Europe.

have not! Germany and France have larger, probably Italy either.

have not! Germany and France have larger, probably Italy either.

Spain: 13.156km
Germany: 12.200km
France: 12.000km
Italy: 6.621km

this is definitely both motorways + dual carriageways. Spain has the largest net of dual carriegways in Europe, while Germany almost doesn't know for them because they have mostly full profiled motorways (+bundesstrassen)

this is definitely both motorways + dual carriageways. Spain has the largest net of dual carriegways in Europe, while Germany almost doesn't know for them because they have mostly full profiled motorways (+bundesstrassen)

In Spain, you have Autopista's and Autovia's.

the only difference is that AP's are tolled, and AV's are not. They have the same looks, and the same speed limit and rules.

interesting: i have been a plenty times in Spain, but I've allways been traveling on autopistas. i thought that autovias are more narow, so with more narrow emergency lane. i know this tolled and untolled, but i didn't know that auvovias are allways untolled.

The Autovia's are allowed to have some smaller shoulders, so they can be used in mountainous areas, where there is often not much space.

But whatever? Some German Autobahns doesn't have a shoulders at all ;)

But you can look at viamichelin.com and check out Spain's huge autovia network!

I bought new Croatian Automobile Club's European Highway Atlas, and there are almost all cpuntries and main cities in Europe except Russia Aand Ukraine, but then I realised that vamichelin.com is also not accurate enough

"Autoroutes" concessionaires network in France:
http://wikisara.free.fr/wikisara/images/TG_Concessions.jpg

I bought new Croatian Automobile Club's European Highway Atlas, and there are almost all cpuntries and main cities in Europe except Russia Aand Ukraine, but then I realised that vamichelin.com is also not accurate enough

You can see that they're not accurate on the map of Cro anyway...

The Autovia's are allowed to have some smaller shoulders, so they can be used in mountainous areas, where there is often not much space.


Actually there's absolutelly no diference between autovia's and autopista's designs standards. Same lane width, shoulder width, etc...

Still, there are some older autovias(some of the one's radiating from Madrid) with lower designs standards, but those will undergo major renovation works very soon, so they will be full motorway standard too.

Actually there's absolutelly no diference between autovia's and autopista's designs standards. Same lane width, shoulder width, etc....
Ar you sure ?

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autov%C3%ADa

^ Maybe they are maintained worse?

Ar you sure ?

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autov%C3%ADa

From that article (in Spanish):

actualmente las características de trazado de las nuevas autovías proyectadas no tienen prácticamente diferencia alguna con las de las autopistas.

"Actualmente" means "Nowadays", not "Actually". It's a false friend.

Anyway, this is a new autovía (A-12):
http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/9890/urbiolawa1.jpg

And a new autopista (AP-1)
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c395/Noico/P1010027.jpg

"Actualmente" means "Nowadays", not "Actually". It's a false friend.
I know, I'm french (nowadays=actuellement) and I speak Spanish... ;)

But on the other way
actualmente las características de trazado de las nuevas autovías proyectadas no tienen prácticamente diferencia alguna con las de las autopistas.
Doesn't mean "there's absolutelly no diference between autovia's and autopista's designs standards." ;)

Moreover in this article it is also written:
La diferencia fundamental entre autovía y autopista es que esta última está especialmente proyectada, construida y señalizada para la exclusiva circulación de automóviles

So I was thinking about Autovias in their globality and not only the last generations...

A-1 near Madrid:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/A_1.jpg

^^As i've said, there are some older autovias (Madrid's radials: A-1, A-2, A-3, etc..) that don't comply with modern motorway standards.
But those will be completelly refurbished and modernized(including changes on the geometry and completelly new parts) in the next few years.

^^As i've said, there are some older autovias (Madrid's radials: A-1, A-2, A-3, etc..) that don't comply with modern motorway standards.
But those will be completelly refurbished and modernized(including changes on the geometry and completelly new parts) in the next few years.
So when you wrote "actually" you meant "nowadays" and not "in fact".
In that case, I agree with you: in the future, all autovias (new, u/c and renovated) will be equivalent to autopistas... ;)

So when you wrote "actually" you meant "nowadays" and not "in fact".
In that case, I agree with you: in the future, all autovias (new, u/c and renovated) will be equivalent to autopistas... ;)

Yes, that's the point. You have more info about that in this article (http://www.fomento.es/MFOM/LANG_CASTELLANO/INFORMACION_MFOM/PUBLICACIONES/Revistas/Febrero/Articulo1.htm) from the Spanish "Ministerio de Fomento" official magazine. (http://www.fomento.es/MFOM/LANG_CASTELLANO/INFORMACION_MFOM/PUBLICACIONES/Revistas/Febrero/)


Back to the topic. In Spain (only tolled motorways):



AP-1 Burgos-Miranda: www.europistas.es

AP-1 Vitoria-Éibar: www.bidegi.net

AP-2 Zaragoza-Barcelona: www.autopistas.com

AP-4 Sevilla-Cádiz: www.aumar.es

AP-6 Villalba-Adanero: www.iberpistas.es

AP-7 La Jonquera-Barcelona-Tarragona: www.autopistas.com

AP-7 Tarragona-Valencia-Alicante: www.aumar.es

AP-7 Alicante-Cartagena: www.ausur.es

AP-7 Cartagena-Vera: www.aucosta.es

AP-7 Málaga-Estepona-Guadiaro: www.autopistadelsol.com

AP-8 Bilbao-Behovia: www.bidegi.net

AP-9 Ferrol-A Coruña-Vigo-O Porriño: www.audasa.es

AP-15 Tudela-Pamplona-Irurtzun: www.audenasa.es

AP-36 Ocaña-La Roda: www.autopistamadridlevante.com

AP-41 Madrid-Toledo: www.autopistamadridtoledo.com

AP-51 Villacastín-Ávila: www.iberpistas.es/historia_ap51.html

AP-61 San Rafael-Segovia: www.iberpistas.es/historia_ap61.html

AP-53 Santiago de Compostela-Ourense: www.acega.es

AP-66 León-Campomanes: www.aucalsa.com

AP-68 Bilbao-Logroño-Zaragoza: www.a68.com

AP-71 León-Astorga: www.aulesa.com

M-12 Madrid-Aeropuerto: www.ejeaeropuerto.com

R-2 Madrid-Guadalajara: www.radial-2.com

R-3 Madrid-Arganda: www.radial3.com

R-4 Madrid-Ocaña: www.radial4.com

R-5 Madrid-Navalcarnero: www.radial5.com

C-16 Terrassa-Manresa: www.autema.com

C-32 Palafolls-Montgat: www.autopistas.com

C-32 Viladecans-El Vendrell: www.aucat.es


Map: http://www.aseta.es/index.html

:cheers:

So when you wrote "actually" you meant "nowadays" and not "in fact".


No, I really meant to say "in fact". But if you want to, I'il change it to:

"Actually, nowadays there's absolutelly no diference between autovia's and autopista's designs standards. Same lane width, shoulder width, etc..."
:D

why some Spanish motorways have french-style SOS lanes (with very long dashed lines), and some have normal European style (full lines, not dashed)?

^^I don't know, but I think that nowadays they allways paint the outer line in that very long dashed lines style.

^^I don't know, but I think that nowadays they allways paint the outer line in that very long dashed lines style.

no. AP7 form Barcelona to La Jonquera has full line, for instance

no. AP7 form Barcelona to La Jonquera has full line, for instance

Yeah, but that's one older Autopista.

Yeah, but that's one older Autopista.

Indeed.
I guess that when they apply a new painting they now do it usind the very long dashed lines style.
At least all new autovias and autopistas are like that.

Indeed.
I guess that when they apply a new painting they now do it usind the very long dashed lines style.
At least all new autovias and autopistas are like that.

aaaa so!!

Are there any sites which contain continueous pictures of Spanish Autopista's/Autovia's? I've seen a lot, but those are more random than one road pictured.

Sites like roadpics.net, rippachtal.de, autoroute.free.fr etc.

^^I think not.
That has been talked about in the spanish foruns.
Well, there are some photo's in my harddrive though. :)
I'il try to uppload some to the european road's photo site mentioned in another thread. ;)

i have some from west Barcelona's bypasses to Vidreres (AP7). bot too much, but at least something

Yeah i have that part already uploaded to: http://tammuz.interinter.net/galleries/18

i saw, i have more detailed + those huge toll booths

the site of romanian motorways and national roads company: www.andnet.ro

^^ web under construction but is it right that recently the motorway Bucarest-Constansa is open except the last kilometers until Constansa ?

^^ web under construction but is it right that recently the motorway Bucarest-Constansa is open except the last kilometers until Constansa ?

yes, unfortunately the web is u/c.motorway buc-ct is open till cernavoda, about 160kms from bucharest.the remaining part is about 60kms and is going to finish i hope at the end of 2010.after a few weeks the company that will construct it will be selected.

Republic of Srpska

http://www.putevirs.com/

Serbia

http://www.dzp.co.yu/index.php?lang=en




(I can't find anything about Montenegro.)

I would like to find a map of entire Europe, that shows its motorways network, something like you can find on the railways thread, for the railway sistem. I always find maps of certain countries or regions:ohno: , but what I want is a more global (zoomed-out, but that doesn't mean it suould be with fewer details: map scale is not that important) picture or map. It's not necessary for you to post the maps, but just the links. thank you wery much in advance! :cheers: It would be nice to see Eureope cowered with such a network!:)

Here is a flash map with some new railways too and can be zoomed:

http://eu-map.blogspot.com/

^^ Here you go. The 'Eastern Europe' is fu*ked up (except for Poland and the Czech Republic), so don't take it too seriously. If you have any questions, just ask.


Thanks so much.. although 'EE' is indeed fuc-ed up on the map you posted!

Thanks so much.. although 'EE' is indeed fuc-ed up on the map you posted!

Well, you replied to me already 2.5 years ago (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=11920753#post11920753). ;) Anyway, it's a bit more accurate now (+ HR, SLO, H, SK, LT, LV, EST, GR, TR).

Here's the Romanian page:

http://www.cnadnr.ro/proiecte.php?tip=79

Does anyone know if there is an interactive website like the following, concerning Poland? :

http://nowedrogi.pl/autostrady.htm

If not, it would be worthwhile to create one, starting off with Milan-Varese or AVUS to see when it became possible to travel across the EU, say from Lisbon to Kopenhagen, Budapest or elsewhere distant at the far end of the Continent?

I know them only from Poland, Netherlands (my site) and Great Britain (cbrd). Making one for Europe ? I wish you a lot of success.

If possible, could you give me the links to NL and GB interactive websites like the Polish one?
Btw, a very good motto - PL seems to be rich enough not to have good roads 21 years after the fall of the communism - our favourite summary is "somehow it will be"

Does anyone know if there is an interactive website like the following, concerning Poland? :

http://nowedrogi.pl/autostrady.htm

If not, it would be worthwhile to create one, starting off with Milan-Varese or AVUS to see when it became possible to travel across the EU, say from Lisbon to Kopenhagen, Budapest or elsewhere distant at the far end of the Continent?

Have you seen this one ?

http://stadiony.klszarak.org/scc_a_s.swf

Bulgaria:

Oops, there's none... I forgot for a second that our motorways lack any kind of maintenance...

Not all countries have documented their motorway openings all that well. For instance from the Netherlands, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Poland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Slovenia, Hungary, Czech Republic, Portugal, Slovakia, Romania, United Kingdom, Ireland, Austria and Croatia nearly all motorway openings are known. But not for countries like Spain, Italy, Norway, Switzerland, Russia, Finland, Greece, Turkey, Cyprus and Bulgaria. Especially Spain is lacking (which has approximately 18% of all European motorways).

Does anyone know if there is an interactive website like the following, concerning Poland? :

A poor atempt to create a czech one, dating back to year 2007:
http://www.ceskedalnice.cz/prilohy/prezentace/

Not all countries have documented their motorway openings all that well. For instance from the Netherlands, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Poland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Slovenia, Hungary, Czech Republic, Portugal, Slovakia, Romania, United Kingdom, Ireland, Austria and Croatia nearly all motorway openings are known. But not for countries like Spain, Italy, Norway, Switzerland, Russia, Finland, Greece, Turkey, Cyprus and Bulgaria. Especially Spain is lacking (which has approximately 18% of all European motorways).

Well, I do hope that it is possible to retrace the history of openings in the depths of the archives of Ministries of Transport or Infrastructure of the abovementioned countries.

I know them only from Poland, Netherlands (my site) and Great Britain (cbrd). Making one for Europe ? I wish you a lot of success.

Could you give the links to sites you mention, please?

To sum up, we have some sketches of proposed History of development of European Motorway Network. Hopefully, the project will be developed, as I see it as worthwhile doing.

I should be very nice if they could make the CBRD Motorway Database for all over Europe.

I have collected motorway openings for nearly every European country I could find. This includes the Netherlands, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Luxembourg, Germany, France, Austria, Portugal, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovenia, Denmark, Sweden and Finland.

^^ Where?

I processed them on the Dutch-language wegenwiki (http://www.wegenwiki.nl/). I also keep track of new motorway openings there.

And don't forget the German year-by-year listings at http://www.autobahn-online.de/geschichte.html

I processed them on the Dutch-language wegenwiki. I also keep track of new motorway openings there.

Amazing website! I didn't know they had a motorway in Albania! Wish the Wegenwiki were in English!

And don't forget the German year-by-year listings at http://www.autobahn-online.de/geschichte.html

They have a lot, but not all of the German openings.

Switzerland on the other hand has extremely few info on motorway completions. I managed to made a guesstimate of some sections of the system using maps and old news posts.

Could you give the links to sites you mention, please?

I already mentioned them. Is it so hard to visit those sites and find out yourself ?
However, here you are:

Autosnelwegen.nl (http://www.autosnelwegen.nl/asw/netw/netwerk2-en.htm)

CBRD.co.uk (http://www.cbrd.co.uk/histories/chronologymaps/1958.shtml)

Amazing website! I didn't know they had a motorway in Albania! Wish the Wegenwiki were in English!

Google Translate (http://translate.google.nl/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=nl&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=nl&tl=en&u=www.wegenwiki.nl) will help...

I processed them on the Dutch-language wegenwiki (http://www.wegenwiki.nl/). I also keep track of new motorway openings there.

You have a few mistakes for Slovenia, but that's Dars' fault for not being precise enough.

A nice diagram of US Interstate system over the decades:

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/interstate/densitymap.htm

Wish we, Europeans were able to create a similar or even better, more detailed, interactive one :cheers:

Greece :

A1 Aegean Motorway: http://www.aegeanmotorway.gr/

A2 Egnatia odos: http://www.egnatia.eu/page/

A5 Ionia odos: ----------------------

A6 Attiki odos: http://www.aodos.gr/

A7 Moreas: http://www.moreas.com.gr/

A8 Olympia Odos: http://www.olympiaodos.gr/

Some unofficial sites about Greek Infrastracture

http://www.ypodomes.com/

http://www.greek-motorway.net/