Road

As a trunk road (including highway ) is the German language area, a public transport route designated high state of development, of the long-range transport is primarily used. These include generally motorways and motor roads. The highways form a transport network that is also associated with the transport networks of neighboring states within a state.

In the Weimar Republic, the national roads have been since the beginning of the numbering on January 17, 1932 " highways " ( in official documents with " FVS " hereinafter) called. 1934, the highways were renamed Empire streets (R). In the GDR, also the term " highway " with the abbreviation "F" was used for road classification. The numbering of the imperial roads has been adopted in many areas.

In Germany, according to the Federal Highway Act, both federal motorways and federal roads to the highways. The Austrian road traffic law does not define this term specifically. He is, however, used in common parlance for federal motorways and federal highways. In Switzerland, there is also no traffic law definition. There, national highways are called highways.

Since June 18, 2013 Write the before "Guidelines for the design of rural roads ( RAL ) " to expand highways as a three-lane roads in the 2 1 system. The carriageways are separated here by a double solid line, in which the gap is colored for better differentiation with green color.