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AUTOROUTE URBAINE [1 record]

Record 1 2015-02-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Freeways and Expressways
  • Road Networks
  • Urban Planning
CONT

Urban freeways are intended to accommodate heavy volumes of traffic moving at high speeds under free-flowing conditions. Urban freeways connect major points of traffic generation and may serve as urban extensions of principal rural highways. Uninterrupted flow condition can only be provided by grade-separated crossings and interchanges. Parking and pedestrian access are prohibited. Urban freeways are directly connected to intersecting or adjacent freeways and to most intersecting or adjacent arterial streets.

OBS

urban motorway: term proposed by the World Road Association.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Autoroutes et voies rapides
  • Réseaux routiers
  • Aménagement urbain
DEF

Route à accès limité avec échangeurs étagés, qui assure les mouvements de longue distance à l'intérieur d'une ville, entre la ville et ses environs, entre la ville et d'autres régions, ou qui traverse la ville (où une voie de contournement n'existe pas).

OBS

Elle est raccordée uniquement aux artères de la ville. L'autoroute urbaine devient souvent une route régionale [...] assurant ainsi le lien entre les réseaux urbains et ruraux.

OBS

autoroute urbaine : terme proposé par l'Association mondiale de la route.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Autopistas y vías rápidas
  • Redes viales
  • Planificación urbana
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