Trunk road

Under an extra-urban road is understood outside a closed town in Germany a road.

However, This also includes motorways and similar roads (including motor roads ) within built-up areas. With roads out of town you can also see from the name, who is the responsible for construction of the road. For urban roads, however, it is, depending on how large the community is possible that, for example, a federal road is in the public easement of the city. Another difference from the urban roads is that they usually wear no street name within the meaning of xy - road, but only a number as B 426 or A 5 or have no name and only as a community link road between location A and location B denotes be.

In Germany the speed limit depends, unless appropriate traffic signs are placed on the type of road from. For details see speed limit.

The corresponding in Austria road type is called an open country road.