controlled-access highway

English

German Motorway (Reichsautobahn) 1943

Noun

controlled-access highway (plural controlled-access highways)

1. A road, chiefly referred to as motorway, with grade-separated crossings (rather than level crossings) and designed (and only permitted) for high-speed motor-traffic (in Europe motor vehicles with a higher speed limit than 40 km/h) running in two directions on one separate carriageway each

See also: limited-access highway

motorway — see motorway

Further reading

• Controlled-access highway on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Limited-access road on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Autobahn on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Autobahn on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de