A road is a
thoroughfare for the conveyance of
traffic that mostly has an
improved surface for use by vehicles (motorized and non-motorized) and pedestrians. Unlike
streets, whose primary function is to serve as public spaces, the main function of roads is transportation.
"the Appian way is commonly said to be the queen of the long roads"
The road is named after
Appius Claudius Caecus, the Roman
censor who began and completed the first section as a military road to the south in 312 BC during the
Samnite Wars.
The following are images from various road-related articles on Wikipedia.
Image 1Different layers of road including asphalt layer. The total thickness of a pavement can be measured using
granular base equivalency (from Road surface)
Image 2Pateros Traffic Enforcer And Roadworks Road Closed Construction in Pateros, Metro Manila, Philippines. (from Roadworks)
Image 3The schedule of maximum tolls allowed on the
Woodstock to Rollright Turnpike Trust on the Great Road to Worcester in 1751 (from History of road transport)
Image 4John Metcalf, also known as Blind Jack of Knaresborough. Drawn by J R Smith in The Life of John Metcalf published 1801. (from History of road transport)
Image 8According to
Eurostat and
European Railway Agency, in European
railway mode of transport, there is a fatality risk for passengers and occupants 28 times lower compared with car usage. Based on data by EU-27 member nations, 2008–2010. (from Road traffic safety)
Image 19Vehicles experiencing a
breakdown or an emergency can stop in the
emergency lane; these lanes may themselves present risks to traffic. (from Road traffic safety)
Image 20Closeup of asphalt on a driveway (from Road surface)
Image 25Car fatalities per pax-km vs. car usage per pax-day; in Europe. It seems, at least in these European countries, that car fatalities per person-km have no strong correlation with massification of car usage. The average car usage in these countries is around 30km per person-day with varying number of fatalities ratios. These differences might be related with different cultural approaches to traffic codes, or more safety measures implemented on such countries. (from Road traffic safety)
Image 29Pavement ends and turns into gravel surface road (from Road surface)
Image 30The
Great North Road near Highgate on the approach to London before turnpiking. The highway was deeply rutted and spread onto adjoining land. (from History of road transport)
Image 31The
Dutch Reach - Use far hand on handle when opening to avoid
dooring cyclists or injuries to exiting drivers and passengers. (from Road traffic safety)
Image 35Jan Brueghel (I) - Travellers on the Way, second half of 16th Century (from History of road transport)
Image 36According to
Eurostat, there is almost a linear proportion between the total number of passenger-km driven by car and road fatalities. (from Road traffic safety)
Image 37Sacrifices to the Modern
Moloch, a 1922 cartoon published in
The New York Times, criticizing the apparent acceptance by society of increasing automobile-related fatalities (from Road traffic safety)
Image 38An example of composite pavement: hot-mix asphalt overlaid onto Portland cement concrete pavement (from Road surface)
Image 39Polymer cement overlaying to change asphalt pavement to brick texture and color to create decorative crosswalk (from Road surface)
Image 40Replacing the old road with cobblestones of cement in Bo'ao Road area,
Haikou City, Hainan, China. (from Roadworks)
Image 41Construction crew laying down asphalt over fiber-optic trench, in New York City (from Road surface)
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Interchange in
Dubai,
United Arab Emirates where Al Quta'eyat Road and Zabeel Road meet adjacent to Zabeel Park (on the left in the picture) next to the neighborhoods of Zabeel (at the bottom),
Karama (in the upper left), and Oud Metha (in the upper right). Credit:
Imre Solt
...that there are trans-national highways and road networks that span entire continents, including the Pan-American Highway and the continental road networks in Asia, Africa, and Europe?
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