Coupe d'une route

Coupe d'une route
Coupe d'une route: voie principale si situant hors des villes.
Plate-forme: surface horizontale située plus haut que le terrain environnant.
Accotement: espace entre la chaussée et le fossé.
Terre-plein central: séparation de deux chaussées.
Chaussée: partie médiane réservée à la circulation des véhicules.
Fossé: canal servant à l'évacuation des eaux.
Couche de surface: niveau supérieur d'une route.
Couche de base: niveau médian d'une route.
Couche de fondation: niveau inférieur d'une route.

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EN : Highway - Motorway
FR : Autoroute
ES : Autopista

Autoroute

Highway is a term commonly used is to designate major roads intended for travel by the public between important destinations, such as cities. Highway designs vary widely. They can include some characteristics of grade separations, multiple lanes of traffic, a median between lanes of opposing traffic, and access control, ramps and grade separation. Highways can also be as simple as a two-lane, shoulderless road. The term highway can also be varied country-to-country, and can be referred to a road, freeway, superhighway, autoroute, autobahn, parkway, expressway, autostrasse, autostrada, byway, auto-estrada or motorway.

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