Extra-urban road
A Trunk Road - colloquially highway - is in Germany a road outside a built-up area .
However, this also includes motorways and motorway-like roads (including motorways ) within built-up areas. In the case of roads outside of town, you can also tell from the name who is the contractor for the road. In the case of inner-city roads, on the other hand, depending on the size of the municipality, it is possible that, for example, a federal road is under construction in the city . Another difference from the urban roads is that they usually have no street names within the meaning of xy street wear, but only a number such as B 426 or A 5 or no name and have only a community link road between location A and location B referred become.
In Germany, the speed limit depends on the type of road, unless there are corresponding traffic signs. For details, see speed limit .
Two thirds of all road fatalities in Germany are victims of road accidents. The German Road Safety Council (DVR) has long been warning of the risk of accidents on country roads.
The corresponding type of road in Austria is called an open-air road .
literature
- Wolfgang Pietzsch, Günter Wolf: Street planning . Werner Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-8041-5003-9 .
