5 Types of roadways

There are many various sorts of roadways used throughout the planet. Roadways are important for tourism as they assist to move workers, tourists and goods. The kinds of roadways and the way they are built can have an enormous impact on how efficient operations happen during a destination. A road may be a thoroughfare on land.

Generally, roads are surfaced or improved in how that permits for easier travel. Roads have evolved throughout history. This is often so as to stay up with new and improved transport types and ensure road safety in the least times. Different roads have different purposes. They're employed by differing kinds of transportation and thus are made up of different materials with varying characteristics.

There are different types of roadways that come under the title of lower capacity roads. For instance, an alley, boulevard or lane would all be classed as a lower capacity road. As the name suggests, these are roads that don’t see the maximum amount of traffic as major roads. B-roads are classed as lower capacity roads, as are cul-de-sacs and crescents. Many lower capacity roads are residential roads, and a few run through the centre of cities. It's clear that they don’t see the maximum amount of traffic as major roads, and this seems to be what sets them aside from what we would term as ‘higher capacity roads.

These are roadways which are generally not maintained. They are minor road systems and don’t see whilst much traffic because of the aforementioned lower capacity roads. Not classified as a part of the area’s primary road systems that has a mean annual daily traffic of 1 hundred or fewer vehicles.

Avinash Sinha

Birla School, Pilani