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International E-road network

The international E-road network is a numbering system for roads in Europe developed by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). The network is numbered from E1 up and its roads cross national borders. It also reaches Central Asian countries like Kyrgyzstan, since they are members of the UNECE.

E-road network
Markers for E40 and E018
 
Map of International E-road network
System information
Formed16 September 1950 (16 September 1950)
Highway names
E-roadEuropean route nn (Enn or E nn)
System links
E-Road Network over 1990 borders
Approximate extent of completed motorway network in Europe as of May 2014

Main international traffic arteries in Europe are defined by ECE/TRANS/SC.1/2016/3/Rev.1 which consider three types of roads: motorways, limited access roads, and ordinary roads.

In most countries, the roads carry the European route designation alongside national designations. Belgium, Norway and Sweden have roads which only have the European route designations (examples: E18 and E6). The United Kingdom, Iceland, Albania and the Asian part of Russia only use national road designations and do not show the European designations at all. Andorra does not number its routes at all except in internal circumstances. Denmark only uses the European designations on signage, but also has formal names for every motorway (or part of such), by which the motorways are referred to, for instance in news and weather forecasts. In Asia, Turkey and Russia show the European designations on signage; this is not the case in many other Asian countries.

Other continents have similar international road networks, e.g., the Pan-American Highway in the Americas, the Trans-African Highway network, and the Asian Highway Network.

History

 
E3 in Denmark, before 1992: Changed to E45; the number E3 was re-attributed.

UNECE was formed in 1947, and their first major act to improve transport was a joint UN declaration no. 1264, the Declaration on the Construction of Main International Traffic Arteries,[1][2] signed in Geneva on 16 September 1950, which defined the first E-road network. Originally it was envisaged that the E-road network would be a motorway system comparable to the US Interstate Highway System.[3] The declaration was amended several times until 15 November 1975, when it was replaced by the European Agreement on Main International Traffic Arteries or "AGR",[4] which set up a route numbering system and improved standards for roads in the list. The AGR last went through a major change in 1992 and in 2001 was extended into Central Asia to include the Caucasus nations.[3] There were several minor revisions since, last in 2008 (as of 2009).

Numbering system

 
European Route Sign. This sign is used on the E40.
 
Intersection of E42 and E451 near Frankfurt Airport

The route numbering system is as follows:[4]

  • Reference roads and intermediate roads, called Class-A roads, have numbers from 1 to 129.
    • North–south routes have odd numbers; east–west routes have even numbers. The two main exceptions are E4 and E6, both north–south routes.
    • The allocation of numbers progresses upwards from west to east and from north to south, with some exceptions.
  • Branch, link and connecting roads, called Class-B roads, have three-digit numbers above 130.
  • Reference roads are roads numbered 5-95 ending with 0 or 5 or having odd numbers 101–129. They generally go across Europe and are usually several thousand kilometres long.
    • North-south reference roads have numbers that end with the digit 5 from 5 to 95, or odd numbers from 101 to 129, increasing from west to east.
    • East-west reference roads have two-digit numbers that end with the digit 0, increasing from north to south.
  • Intermediate roads are roads numbered 1 to 99 that are not reference roads. They are usually considerably shorter than the reference roads. They have numbers between those of the reference roads between which they are located. Like reference roads, north–south intermediate roads have odd numbers; east–west roads have even numbers.
  • Class-B roads have three-digit numbers: the first digit is that of the nearest reference road to the north, the second digit is that of the nearest reference road to the west, and the third digit is a serial number.
  • North-south Class-A roads located eastwards of road E99 have three-digit odd numbers from 101 to 129. Other rules for Class-A roads above apply to these roads.
  • Class-B roads located eastwards of E101 have 3-digit numbers beginning with 0, from 001 to 099.

Exceptions

In the first established and approved version, the road numbers were well ordered. Since then a number of exceptions to this principle have been allowed.

Two Class-A roads, E6 and E4 were originally scheduled to be renamed into E47 and E55, respectively. However, since Sweden and Norway have integrated the E-roads into their national networks, signposted as E6 and E4 throughout, a decision was made to keep the pre-1992 numbers for the roads in those two countries. These exceptions were granted because of the excessive expense connected with re-signing not only the long routes themselves, but also the associated road network in the area. The new numbers are, however, used from Denmark and southward, though, as do other European routes within Scandinavia. These two roads are the most conspicuous exceptions to the rule that even numbers signify west-to-east E-roads.

Further exceptions are:

  • E67, going from Finland to the Czech Republic (wrong side of E75 and E77), assigned around year 2000, simply because it was best available number for this new route.
  • Most of E63 in Finland (wrong side of E75)
  • Part of E8 in Finland on the wrong side of E12 after a lengthening around 2002
  • E82 (Spain and Portugal, wrong side of E80).

These irregularities exist just because it is hard to maintain good order when extending the network, and the UNECE does not want to change road numbers unnecessarily.

Because the Socialist People's Republic of Albania refused to participate in international treaties such as the AGR, it was conspicuously excluded from the route scheme, with E65 and E90 making noticeable detours to go around it. In the 1990s, Albania opened up to the rest of Europe, but only ratified the AGR in August 2006, so its integration into the E-road network remains weak.

Signage

Where the European routes are signed, green signs with white numbers are used.

 
The E201 in the Republic of Ireland.

There are different strategies for determining how frequently to signpost the roads.

  • Sweden, Norway and Denmark have integrated the E-road numbers into their networks, meaning that the roads usually have no other national number.
  • In Belgium, E-numbers are traditionally associated with highways, even though other grade E-roads pass through the country. As a result, the E-number is signposted (and referred to) only on the highway portions of the E-road network, while for non-motorways only the national number (if any) is shown. On the highway portions of the E-network, the E-numbers are the standard and thus referred to in news bulletins rather than the national number. Serbia and Italy have a similar principle.
  • In most countries the E-roads form a network on top of the national network. The green signs are frequent enough to show how to follow the roads, but do not usually show how to reach them.
  • In some countries, like Croatia and Bulgaria, E-roads are well signposted, but they sometimes follow older routes instead of highways.
  • In some countries, like Germany, Italy and Greece, E-roads are signposted only on motorways and main road itineraries.
  • In Ireland the signposting of E-roads is specified in Chapter 2 of the 2010 Traffic Signs Manual published by the Department of Transport, and specifies that E-roads are to be signed on route confirmation signs only.[5] The first E-road numbers were signed in July 2007 on the N11 bypass in Gorey. Since then they have gradually spread across the E-road network in Ireland.
  • In a few European countries such as the United Kingdom,[6] Iceland, Albania, Andorra, Cyprus and many Asian countries such as Uzbekistan, Mongolia, Malaysia, China and Japan, the E-roads are not signposted at all. (Although in Cyprus, signposted E roads are used to designate miscellaneous roads etc.)

Road design standards

The following design standards should be applied to Euroroutes unless there are exceptional circumstances (such as mountain passes etc.):[4]

  • Built-up areas shall be by-passed if they constitute a hindrance or a danger.
  • The roads should preferably be motorways or express roads (unless traffic density is low so that there is no congestion on an ordinary road).
  • They should be homogeneous and be designed for at least 80 km/h (50 mph) (see Design speed). The motorways should be at least 100 km/h (60 mph).
  • Gradients should not exceed 8% on roads designed for 80 km/h (50 mph), decreasing to 4% on roads designed for 120 km/h (75 mph) traffic.
  • The radius of curved sections of road should be a minimum of 120 m (390 ft) on roads designed for 60 km/h (35 mph) rising to 1,000 m (3,300 ft) on roads designed for 140 km/h (85 mph).
  • "Stopping distance visibility" should be at least 70 m (230 ft) on roads designed for 60 km/h (35 mph), rising to 300 m (980 ft) on roads designed for 140 km/h (85 mph).
  • Lane width should be at least 3.5 m (11 ft) on straight sections of road. This guarantees adequate clearance for any vehicle having a superstructure of width 2.5 m (8.2 ft) which is the maximum specified width in Directive 2002/7/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council which recognise some specific tolerances for some specific countries.
  • The shoulder is recommended to be at least 2.5 m (8.2 ft) on ordinary roads and 3.25 m (10.7 ft) on motorways.
  • Central reservations should be at least 3 m (9.8 ft) unless there is a barrier between the two carriageways.
  • Overhead clearance should be not less than 4.5 m (15 ft).
  • Railway intersections should be at different levels.

These requirements are meant to be followed for road construction. When new E-roads have been added these requirements have not been followed stringently. For example, the E45 in Sweden, added in 2006, has long parts with 6 m (20 ft) width or the E22 in eastern Europe forcing drivers to slow down to 30 km/h (20 mph) by taking the route through villages. In Norway, parts of the E10 are 5 m (16 ft) wide and in Central Asia even some gravel roads have been included.

Cultural significance

In Belgium, for example, motorway E-numbers have taken on the same kind of persistent cultural integration and significance as M-numbers in the UK, or Interstate numbers in the United States. Local businesses will refer to, or even incorporate the road designator in their business name. The annual road cycling race "E3 Harelbeke" takes part of its name from the former E3 (the part between Antwerp and Lille was renamed E17 in 1992). The same applies to the retail chain "E5-mode" (E5-fashion) that started with shops easily accessible from the former E5 (renamed E40 in 1992).

List of roads

Notes to the listings

In the road listings below,[4] a dash ('–') indicates a land road connection between two towns/cities—the normal case—while an ellipsis ('...') denotes a stretch across water. Not all such places are connected by ferry, and operating ferry connections are usually run by private companies without support from the respective governments, i.e. they may cease operating at any time.

A Class roads

 
The E-road network in Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan. However, the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan is closed due to strained relations between the two countries.
 
The E-road network in Belarus.
 
The E-road network in Belgium.
 
The E-road network in Bulgaria.
 
The E-road network in Finland.
 
The E-road network in Georgia.
 
The E-road network in Germany.
 
The main E-road network in Hungary.
 
The E-road network in Lithuania.
 
The E-road network in the Netherlands.
 
The E-road network in Poland.
 
The E-road network in Romania.
 
The E-road network in Russia (includes the disputed Crimea).
 
The E-road network in Turkey.
 
The E-road network in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
 
The E-road network in Ukraine (includes the disputed Crimea).

North-South reference

West-East reference

North-South intermediate

West-East intermediate

B Class roads

Notable E-roads

 
An aerial view of the European route E12 between the cities of Tampere and Helsinki in Finland
  • E80, together with Asian Highway 1, crosses all of Europe and Asia, linking Lisbon with Tokyo.
  • The longest E-road is E40, which is more than 8,500 km (5,300 mi) long, connecting France with Kazakhstan.
  • The shortest E-road is E844, 22 km (14 mi), in the Italian region of Calabria
  • Northernmost is E69, North Cape, Norway, 71°10' N
  • Westernmost is E1, Lisbon, Portugal, 9°10' W
  • Southernmost is E75, Crete, Greece, 35°6' N
  • Easternmost is E127, Maykapshagay, Kazakhstan, 85°36' E
  • The highest E-road is E008 which reaches 4,272 m (14,016 ft) altitude in the Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan.
  • The highest E-road in Europe is E62 reaching 2,005 m (6,578 ft) at the Simplon Pass, Switzerland.
  • The lowest E-road is E39 which reaches 262 m (860 ft) below sea level in the Bømlafjord Tunnel, Norway.
  • The longest bridge on an E-road is the Crimean Bridge (in Russia) on E97 which is 16,900 metres (55,400 ft).
  • The longest tunnel on an E-road is the Lærdal Tunnel (in Norway) on E16 which is 24,510 metres (80,410 ft), the longest road tunnel in the world. As of 2015 E16 includes 60 tunnels, covering about 15% of the road's 630 km (391 mi) within Norway.
  • The E39 includes 9 ferry crossings.
  • The E39 includes 90 tunnels, 6% of the road's 1,140 km (708 mi) within Norway.

Historical numbering

These were the historical roads before 1975:

Number Start via End
E1 London – Southampton – Le Havre – ParisLyonNice – Ventimiglia – Genoa – La Spezia – Pisa – Livorno – RomeNaples – Salerno – Reggio di Calabria – Messina – Palermo
E2 London – Dover – Calais – Reims – Dijon – Dole – Lausanne – Simplon – Milan – Parma – Modena – Bologna – Ancona – Foggia – Bari Brindisi
E3 Lisbon – Salamanca – San Sebastián – Bordeaux – Paris – Lille – Gent – Antwerp – Eindhoven – Venlo – Oberhausen – Bielefeld – Hannover – Hamburg – Flensburg – Kolding – Frederikshavn – Gothenburg – Arboga – Stockholm
E4 Lisbon – Elvas – Mérida – Madrid – Zaragoza – Barcelona – Nîmes – Chambéry – Genf – Lausanne – Bern – Basel – Karlsruhe – Frankfurt (Main) – Kassel – Göttingen – Hannover – Hamburg – Lübeck – Fehmarn – Vordingborg – Copenhagen – Helsingør – Helsingborg – Jönköping – StockholmUppsala – Sundsvall – Umeå – Tornio – Lahti – Helsinki
E5 London – Dover – Calais – Gent – Brussels – Liège – CologneFrankfurt (Main) – Würzburg – Nuremberg – Passau – Linz – Melk – Vienna – Nickelsdorf – Győr – Budapest – Szeged – BelgradeGevgelijaThessalonikiAlexandroupolis – Peplos – Ipsala – Silivri – Istanbul – İzmit – Bolu – Ankara – Aksaray – Adana – İskenderun – Turkey/Syria border
E6 Rome – Florence – Bologna – Modena – Verona – Trento – BrennerInnsbruck – Griesen – Munich – Nuremberg – Hof – LeipzigBerlin – Stralsund – Sassnitz – Trelleborg – Malmö – Helsingborg – Gothenburg – Svinesund – Oslo – Hamar – Otta – Trondheim Stjørdal
E7 Rome – Perugia – Forlì – Bologna – Ferrara – Padua – Mestre – Cervignano – Udine – Villach – Bruck an der MurViennaBrno – Cesky Tesin – Krakow Warsaw
E8 London – Harwich – Hook of Holland – The Hague – Utrecht – Osnabrück – Hannover – Magdeburg – Berlin – Poznan – Krośniewice – Warsaw Poland/USSR border
E9 Amsterdam – Maastricht – Liège – Arlon – Luxembourg – Metz – Strasbourg – Mülhausen – Basel – Olten – Luzern – Andermatt – (Gotthard) – Lugano – Chiasso – Como – Milan – Tortona – Genoa
E10 Paris – Cambrai – BrusselsAntwerpRotterdamThe Hague Amsterdam
E11 Paris – Saint-Dizier – Nancy – Strasbourg – Karlsruhe – StuttgartMunich Salzburg
E12 Paris – Metz – Saarbrücken – Mannheim – Nuremberg – Pilsen – Prague – Náchod – Kłodzko – ŁódźWarsaw – Białystok – Moscow
E13 Lyon – Modena – Turin – Milan – Brescia – Verona – Padua – Venice
E14 Trieste – Ronchi – Udine – Villach – Salzburg – Linz – Tábor – Prague – Jablonec – Szczecin
E15 Hamburg BerlinDresden – Zinnwald – PragueBrno – Břeclav – Bratislava Budapest
E16 Bratislava – Český Těšín – Katowice – Łódź – Gdańsk Gdynia
E17 Chagny – Dijon – BaselZürich – Winterthur – St. Gallen – St. Margarethen – Innsbruck – Wörgl – Salzburg
E18 Stavanger – Kristiansand – Larvik – Oslo – Karlstad – Arboga – Köping – Stockholm
E19 Albania/Greece border Ioannina – Arta – Agrinio – Antirion – Rion – Corinth
E20 Koritza – Vari – Edessa – Thessaloniki – Sofia
E21 Aosta – Turin – Savona
E21a Martigny – Grosser St. Bernhard – Aosta
E21b Geneva – Bonneville – Mont-Blanc – Aosta
E22 Berlin Wroclaw – Opole – Bytom – Krakow – Rzeszów – Przemyśl – Poland/Ukraine border
E23 Ankara – Kirsehir – Kayseri – Sivas – Erzincan – Erzurum – Agri – Turkey/Iran border
E24 Kömürler – Gaziantep – Urfa – Mardin – Cizre – Hakkari – Bajerge – Turkey/Iran border
E25 Burgos – Madrid – Bailén – Sevilla – Cádiz – Algecires
E26 Barcelona – Tarragona – Castellón de la Plana – Valencia – Granada – Málaga – Algeciras
E31 London – St. Albans – Northampton – Doncaster – Scotch Corner – Carlisle – Abington – Glasgow
E32 Abington Edinburgh
E33 Northampton – Coventry – Cannock – Warrington – Liverpool
E34 Amsterdam – Cannock – Shrewsbury – Corwen – Holyhead
E35 Amsterdam – Amersfoort – Zwolle – Groningen – Winschoten – Oldenburg – Hamburg
E36 Hook of Holland – Rotterdam – Gouda – Utrecht – Arnhem – Oberhausen – Cologne
E37 Breda – Gorinchem – Utrecht
E38 Breda Eindhoven
E39 Antwerp – Heerlen – Aachen
E40 Brussels – Namur – Bastogne
E41 Calais – Valenciennes – Mons – Charleroi – Namur – Liège
E42 Phalsbourg – Sarreguemines – Saarbrücken – Luxembourg – Echternach – Bitburg – Prüm – Euskirchen – Cologne
E43 Avallon Dijon
E44 Balfort Mülhausen
E45 Dole – La Curs – La Faucille – Gex – Geneva
E46 Lyon – Amberieu – Geneva
E47 Aix-en-Provence Marseille
E48 Nîmes Marseille
E49 Bordeaux – Toulouse – Narbonne
E50 Coimbra – Porto – Vigo – A Coruña – Oviedo – Santander – Bilbao – San Sebastián
E51 Albergaria a Velha – Viseu – Celorico da Beira
E52 Vila Franca de Xira – Pegões – Beja – Vila Verde de Ficalho – Rosal de la Frontera – Sevilla
E53 Turin – Asti – Alessandria – Tortona
E54 Canteggio Piacenza
E55 Pisa – Migliarino – Pistoia
E56 Ponte-Garigliano – Caserta – Foggia
E57 Naples Arienzo
E58 Bari Tarent
E59 Messina Syracuse
E60 Arth Zürich
E61 Bellinzona – San Bernardino – Chur – St. Margrethen – Bregenz – Lindau – Munich
E62 Hof – Karl-Marx-Stadt – Leipzig – Halle – Magdeburg
E63 Hamm – Kassel – Herleshausen – Erfurt – Karl-Marx-Stadt – Dresden
E64 Berlin – Neubrandenburg – Rostock – Warnemünde – Gedser – Nykøbing – Vordingborg – Copenhagen
E65 Lübeck – Rostock – Stralsund
E66 Esbjerg – Kolding – Middelfart – Nyborg – Korsør – Copenhagen – Malmö
E67 Vejle Middelfart
E68 Bergen – Gudvangen – Laerdalsöyra – Nystua – Fagernes – Oslo
E69 Ålesund – Åndalsnes – Dombås
E70 Winterthur – Schaffhausen – Donaueschingen – Tübingen – Stuttgart – Heilbronn – Schwäbisch Hall – Würzburg – Fulda – Hersfeld – Herleshausen
E71 Hannover – Bremen – Bremerhaven
E72 Oldenzaal – Lingen – Bremen
E73 Cologne Hamm
E74 Berlin Szczecin
E75 Stjördal – Storlien – Östersund – Sundvall
E77 Feldkirch Buchs
E78 Tornio Kilpisjärvi
E79 Vaasa – Tampere – Helsinki
E80 Turku – Helsinki – Lappeenranta – Imatra
E81 Gdańsk – Elbląg – Ostróda – Mława – Warsaw – Lublin – Poland/Ukraine border
E82 Piotrkow Warsaw
E83 Jelenia Gora – Wrocław – Poznań – Świecie – Grudziądz
E84 Prague – Jihlava – Znojmo – Vienna
E85 Olomouc – Žilina – Prešov – Košice – Romania/Bulgaria border
E86 Wörgl Rosenheim
E87 Ioannina – Trikkala – Larissa – Volos
E88 Ioannina Preveza
E89 Rion Patras
E90 Vevi Kozani
E91 Cervignano Ronchi
E92 Thessaloniki – Aghios Athanasios – Verria – Kozani – Larissa – Lamia – Athens – Corinth – Argos – Kalamai
E93 Bruck an der Mur – Graz – Spielfeld – Sentilj – Maribor – Ljubljana
E94 Klagenfurt – Loibltunnel – Ljubljana – Zagreb – Belgrad – Bela Crkva – Yugoslavia/Romania border
E95 Nis – Dimitrovgrad – Yugoslavia/Bulgaria border
E96 Rijeka – Zagreb – Čakovec – Donja Lendava – Yugoslavia/Hungary border
E97 Bulgaria/Turkey border – Edirne – Büyükkarıştıran – Silivri
E98 Kemerhisar – Niğde – Kayseri
E99 Toprakkale – Kahramanmaraş – Malatya – Elazığ – Tunceli – Selepür
E101 Madrid Valencia
E102 Mérida Link with E52
E103 Bailén – Granada – Motril – Málaga

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Still in the list despite entirely dublicating south part of E115.

References

  1. ^ (PDF). United Nations - Treaty Series. 16 September 1950. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 August 2014. Retrieved 27 December 2010.
  2. ^ "Declaration on the Construction of Main International Traffic Arteries, signed at Geneva" (PDF). United Nations - Treaty Series. 16 September 1950. Retrieved 1 July 2012.
  3. ^ a b . Archived from the original on 3 March 2012. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
  4. ^ a b c d "European Agreement on Main International Traffic Arteries" (PDF). United Nations Economic and Social Council. 14 March 2008. (PDF) from the original on 31 January 2012. Retrieved 27 December 2010.
  5. ^ "2. Directional Information Signs" (PDF). Traffic Signs Manual 2010. Ireland: Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport. November 2010. §§2.3.34–36, 2.4.108, 2.4.116, 2.5.87. (PDF) from the original on 14 June 2015. Retrieved 23 November 2017.
  6. ^ "Statutory Instrument 2002 No. 3113: The Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2002". HMSO. Retrieved 27 December 2010.

External links

  •   Geographic data related to International E-road network at OpenStreetMap
  • European roads and cities map built on OpenStreetMap's data
  • EU Transport Networks home page
  • at the Wayback Machine (archived January 9, 2008)
  • UNECE document ECE/TRANS/SC.1/2016/03/Rev1 "European Agrement [sic] On Main International Traffic Arteries (AGR)"; 1 November 2016 (PDF file, official E route list starting at p. 9)
  • Map of E-road network - UNECE document (2007)
  • Routes in Benelux as well as E routes in Europe

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E018 Map of International E road networkSystem informationFormed16 September 1950 16 September 1950 Highway namesE roadEuropean route nn Enn or E nn System linksInternational E road networkA Class B ClassE Road Network over 1990 borders Approximate extent of completed motorway network in Europe as of May 2014 update Main international traffic arteries in Europe are defined by ECE TRANS SC 1 2016 3 Rev 1 which consider three types of roads motorways limited access roads and ordinary roads In most countries the roads carry the European route designation alongside national designations Belgium Norway and Sweden have roads which only have the European route designations examples E18 and E6 The United Kingdom Iceland Albania and the Asian part of Russia only use national road designations and do not show the European designations at all Andorra does not number its routes at all except in internal circumstances Denmark only uses the European designations on signage but also has formal names for every motorway or part of such by which the motorways are referred to for instance in news and weather forecasts In Asia Turkey and Russia show the European designations on signage this is not the case in many other Asian countries Other continents have similar international road networks e g the Pan American Highway in the Americas the Trans African Highway network and the Asian Highway Network Contents 1 History 2 Numbering system 2 1 Exceptions 3 Signage 4 Road design standards 5 Cultural significance 6 List of roads 6 1 Notes to the listings 6 2 A Class roads 6 2 1 North South reference 6 2 2 West East reference 6 2 3 North South intermediate 6 2 4 West East intermediate 6 3 B Class roads 7 Notable E roads 8 Historical numbering 9 See also 10 Notes 11 References 12 External linksHistory Edit E3 in Denmark before 1992 Changed to E45 the number E3 was re attributed UNECE was formed in 1947 and their first major act to improve transport was a joint UN declaration no 1264 the Declaration on the Construction of Main International Traffic Arteries 1 2 signed in Geneva on 16 September 1950 which defined the first E road network Originally it was envisaged that the E road network would be a motorway system comparable to the US Interstate Highway System 3 The declaration was amended several times until 15 November 1975 when it was replaced by the European Agreement on Main International Traffic Arteries or AGR 4 which set up a route numbering system and improved standards for roads in the list The AGR last went through a major change in 1992 and in 2001 was extended into Central Asia to include the Caucasus nations 3 There were several minor revisions since last in 2008 as of 2009 update Numbering system Edit European Route Sign This sign is used on the E40 Intersection of E42 and E451 near Frankfurt Airport The route numbering system is as follows 4 Reference roads and intermediate roads called Class A roads have numbers from 1 to 129 North south routes have odd numbers east west routes have even numbers The two main exceptions are E4 and E6 both north south routes The allocation of numbers progresses upwards from west to east and from north to south with some exceptions Branch link and connecting roads called Class B roads have three digit numbers above 130 Reference roads are roads numbered 5 95 ending with 0 or 5 or having odd numbers 101 129 They generally go across Europe and are usually several thousand kilometres long North south reference roads have numbers that end with the digit 5 from 5 to 95 or odd numbers from 101 to 129 increasing from west to east East west reference roads have two digit numbers that end with the digit 0 increasing from north to south Intermediate roads are roads numbered 1 to 99 that are not reference roads They are usually considerably shorter than the reference roads They have numbers between those of the reference roads between which they are located Like reference roads north south intermediate roads have odd numbers east west roads have even numbers Class B roads have three digit numbers the first digit is that of the nearest reference road to the north the second digit is that of the nearest reference road to the west and the third digit is a serial number North south Class A roads located eastwards of road E99 have three digit odd numbers from 101 to 129 Other rules for Class A roads above apply to these roads Class B roads located eastwards of E101 have 3 digit numbers beginning with 0 from 001 to 099 Exceptions Edit In the first established and approved version the road numbers were well ordered Since then a number of exceptions to this principle have been allowed Two Class A roads E6 and E4 were originally scheduled to be renamed into E47 and E55 respectively However since Sweden and Norway have integrated the E roads into their national networks signposted as E6 and E4 throughout a decision was made to keep the pre 1992 numbers for the roads in those two countries These exceptions were granted because of the excessive expense connected with re signing not only the long routes themselves but also the associated road network in the area The new numbers are however used from Denmark and southward though as do other European routes within Scandinavia These two roads are the most conspicuous exceptions to the rule that even numbers signify west to east E roads Further exceptions are E67 going from Finland to the Czech Republic wrong side of E75 and E77 assigned around year 2000 simply because it was best available number for this new route Most of E63 in Finland wrong side of E75 Part of E8 in Finland on the wrong side of E12 after a lengthening around 2002 E82 Spain and Portugal wrong side of E80 These irregularities exist just because it is hard to maintain good order when extending the network and the UNECE does not want to change road numbers unnecessarily Because the Socialist People s Republic of Albania refused to participate in international treaties such as the AGR it was conspicuously excluded from the route scheme with E65 and E90 making noticeable detours to go around it In the 1990s Albania opened up to the rest of Europe but only ratified the AGR in August 2006 so its integration into the E road network remains weak Signage EditWhere the European routes are signed green signs with white numbers are used The E201 in the Republic of Ireland There are different strategies for determining how frequently to signpost the roads Sweden Norway and Denmark have integrated the E road numbers into their networks meaning that the roads usually have no other national number In Belgium E numbers are traditionally associated with highways even though other grade E roads pass through the country As a result the E number is signposted and referred to only on the highway portions of the E road network while for non motorways only the national number if any is shown On the highway portions of the E network the E numbers are the standard and thus referred to in news bulletins rather than the national number Serbia and Italy have a similar principle In most countries the E roads form a network on top of the national network The green signs are frequent enough to show how to follow the roads but do not usually show how to reach them In some countries like Croatia and Bulgaria E roads are well signposted but they sometimes follow older routes instead of highways In some countries like Germany Italy and Greece E roads are signposted only on motorways and main road itineraries In Ireland the signposting of E roads is specified in Chapter 2 of the 2010 Traffic Signs Manual published by the Department of Transport and specifies that E roads are to be signed on route confirmation signs only 5 The first E road numbers were signed in July 2007 on the N11 bypass in Gorey Since then they have gradually spread across the E road network in Ireland In a few European countries such as the United Kingdom 6 Iceland Albania Andorra Cyprus and many Asian countries such as Uzbekistan Mongolia Malaysia China and Japan the E roads are not signposted at all Although in Cyprus signposted E roads are used to designate miscellaneous roads etc Road design standards EditThe following design standards should be applied to Euroroutes unless there are exceptional circumstances such as mountain passes etc 4 Built up areas shall be by passed if they constitute a hindrance or a danger The roads should preferably be motorways or express roads unless traffic density is low so that there is no congestion on an ordinary road They should be homogeneous and be designed for at least 80 km h 50 mph see Design speed The motorways should be at least 100 km h 60 mph Gradients should not exceed 8 on roads designed for 80 km h 50 mph decreasing to 4 on roads designed for 120 km h 75 mph traffic The radius of curved sections of road should be a minimum of 120 m 390 ft on roads designed for 60 km h 35 mph rising to 1 000 m 3 300 ft on roads designed for 140 km h 85 mph Stopping distance visibility should be at least 70 m 230 ft on roads designed for 60 km h 35 mph rising to 300 m 980 ft on roads designed for 140 km h 85 mph Lane width should be at least 3 5 m 11 ft on straight sections of road This guarantees adequate clearance for any vehicle having a superstructure of width 2 5 m 8 2 ft which is the maximum specified width in Directive 2002 7 EC of the European Parliament and of the Council which recognise some specific tolerances for some specific countries The shoulder is recommended to be at least 2 5 m 8 2 ft on ordinary roads and 3 25 m 10 7 ft on motorways Central reservations should be at least 3 m 9 8 ft unless there is a barrier between the two carriageways Overhead clearance should be not less than 4 5 m 15 ft Railway intersections should be at different levels These requirements are meant to be followed for road construction When new E roads have been added these requirements have not been followed stringently For example the E45 in Sweden added in 2006 has long parts with 6 m 20 ft width or the E22 in eastern Europe forcing drivers to slow down to 30 km h 20 mph by taking the route through villages In Norway parts of the E10 are 5 m 16 ft wide and in Central Asia even some gravel roads have been included Cultural significance EditIn Belgium for example motorway E numbers have taken on the same kind of persistent cultural integration and significance as M numbers in the UK or Interstate numbers in the United States Local businesses will refer to or even incorporate the road designator in their business name The annual road cycling race E3 Harelbeke takes part of its name from the former E3 the part between Antwerp and Lille was renamed E17 in 1992 The same applies to the retail chain E5 mode E5 fashion that started with shops easily accessible from the former E5 renamed E40 in 1992 List of roads EditNotes to the listings Edit In the road listings below 4 a dash indicates a land road connection between two towns cities the normal case while an ellipsis denotes a stretch across water Not all such places are connected by ferry and operating ferry connections are usually run by private companies without support from the respective governments i e they may cease operating at any time A Class roads Edit The E road network in Georgia Armenia Azerbaijan However the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan is closed due to strained relations between the two countries The E road network in Belarus The E road network in Belgium The E road network in Bulgaria Main and E roads in Estonia The E road network in Finland The E road network in Georgia The E road network in Germany The main E road network in Hungary The E road network in Lithuania The E road network in the Netherlands The E road network in Poland The E road network in Romania The E road network in Russia includes the disputed Crimea The E road network in Turkey The E road network in the United Kingdom and Ireland The E road network in Ukraine includes the disputed Crimea North South reference Edit 2 960 km 1 840 mi Greenock Glasgow Preston Birmingham Southampton Le Havre Paris Orleans Bordeaux San Sebastian Burgos Madrid Seville Algeciras 3 590 km 2 230 mi Inverness Perth Edinburgh Newcastle London Folkestone Dover Calais Paris Lyon Orange Narbonne Girona Barcelona Tarragona Castellon de la Plana Valencia Alicante Murcia Almeria Malaga Algeciras 1 830 km 1 140 mi Hook of Holland Rotterdam Eindhoven Maastricht Liege Bastogne Arlon Luxembourg Metz Saint Avold Strasbourg Mulhouse Basel Olten Bern Lausanne Geneva Mont Blanc Aosta Ivrea Vercelli Alessandria Genoa Bastia Porto Vecchio Bonifacio Porto Torres Sassari Cagliari Palermo 1 660 km 1 030 mi Amsterdam Utrecht Arnhem Emmerich Oberhausen Cologne Frankfurt am Main Heidelberg Karlsruhe Offenburg Basel Olten Lucerne Altdorf Gotthard Pass Bellinzona Lugano Chiasso Como Milan Piacenza Parma Modena Florence Rome 5 190 km 3 220 mi Alta Kautokeino Karesuvanto Arvidsjaur Ostersund Mora Saffle Gothenburg Frederikshavn Aalborg Aarhus Vejle Kolding Flensburg Hamburg Hanover Gottingen Kassel Fulda Wurzburg Nuremberg Munich Rosenheim Worgl Innsbruck Brenner Fortezza Bolzano Trento Verona Modena Bologna Cesena Perugia Fiano Romano Naples Salerno Sicignano degli Alburni Cosenza Villa San Giovanni Messina Catania Siracusa Rosolini Gela 2 920 km 1 810 mi Helsingborg Helsingor Copenhagen Koge Vordingborg Faro Nykobing Falster Gedser Rostock Berlin Lubbenau Dresden Usti nad Labem Prague Tabor Linz Salzburg Villach Tarvisio Udine Palmanova Mestre Ravenna Cesena Rimini Fano Ancona Pescara Canosa di Puglia Bari Brindisi Igoumenitsa Preveza Rhion Patras Pyrgos Kalamata E4 was meant to be part of this route but kept old number 3 800 km 2 400 mi Malmo Ystad Swinoujscie Wolin Goleniow Szczecin Gryfino Pyrzyce Mysliborz Gorzow Wielkopolski Skwierzyna Miedzyrzecz Swiebodzin Zielona Gora Legnica Jelenia Gora Harrachov Zelezny Brod Turnov Mlada Boleslav Prague Jihlava Brno Bratislava Rajka Csorna Szombathely Zalaegerszeg Nagykanizsa Letenye Zagreb Karlovac Rijeka Split Dubrovnik Petrovac Podgorica Bijelo Polje Pristina Skopje Kicevo Ohrid Bitola Niki Vevi Kozani Larissa Domokos Lamia Bralos Itea Antirrio Rhion Aigio Corinth Tripoli Kalamata Kissamos Chania 4 340 km 2 700 mi Vardo Vadso Varangerbotn Utsjoki Inari Ivalo Sodankyla Rovaniemi Kemi Oulu Jyvaskyla Heinola Lahti Helsinki Gdansk Swiecie Lodz Czestochowa Katowice Zilina Bratislava Gyor Budapest Szeged Subotica Novi Sad Belgrade Nis Kumanovo Skopje Veles Gevgelija Evzoni Thessaloniki Katerini Larissa Lamia Athens Chania Heraklion Agios Nikolaos Sitia 2 300 km 1 400 mi Klaipeda Kaunas Vilnius Lida Slonim Kobryn Dubno Ternopil Chernivtsi Siret Suceava Roman Urziceni Bucharest Giurgiu Ruse Byala Veliko Tarnovo Stara Zagora Haskovo Svilengrad Ormenio Kastanies Didymoteicho Alexandroupoli 1 790 km 1 110 mi Saint Petersburg Pskov Gomel Kyiv Odessa Samsun Merzifon 850 km 530 mi Moscow Kaluga Bryansk Hlukhiv Kyiv 3 770 km 2 340 mi Kirkenes Murmansk Petrozavodsk Saint Petersburg Moscow Tula Orel Kharkiv Simferopol Alushta Yalta 1 730 km 1 070 mi Yaroslavl Moscow Voronezh Novorossiysk 1 050 km 650 mi Mineralnye Vody Nalchik Vladikavkaz Stepantsminda Mtskheta Tbilisi Marneuli Bolnisi Yerevan Goris Megri 2 630 km 1 630 mi Moscow Tambov Povorino Volgograd Astrakhan Makhachkala Quba Baku Alyat Astara 2 700 km 1 700 mi Samara Oral Atyrau Beineu Shetpe Zhetybai Fetisovo Bekdash Turkmenbasy Serdar Border of the Islamic Republic of Iran 2 840 km 1 760 mi Chelyabinsk Kostanay Esil Derzhavinsk Arkalyk Jezkazgan Kyzylorda Shymkent Tashkent Ayni Dushanbe Panji Poyon 2 600 km 1 600 mi Ishim Petropavl Kokshetau Astana Karaganda Balkhash Burubaytal Almaty Bishkek Naryn Torugart Pass 1 330 km 830 mi Omsk Pavlodar Semey Georgiyevka MaikapshagaiWest East reference Edit 880 km 550 mi A Svolvaer Lodingen Evenes Narvik Kiruna Tore Lulea 1 880 km 1 170 mi Shannon Limerick Dublin Liverpool Manchester Leeds Kingston upon Hull Esbjerg Copenhagen Malmo Helsingborg Halmstad Gothenburg Skara Orebro Stockholm Tallinn Narva Saint Petersburg 6 050 km 3 760 mi Cork Waterford Wexford Rosslare Fishguard Swansea Bridgend Cardiff Newport Bristol London Colchester Ipswich Felixstowe Hook of Holland The Hague Gouda Utrecht Amersfoort Oldenzaal Osnabruck Bad Oeynhausen Hanover Braunschweig Magdeburg Berlin Swiebodzin Poznan Warsaw Brest Minsk Smolensk Moscow Ryazan Penza Samara Ufa Chelyabinsk Kurgan Ishim Omsk 8 690 km 5 400 mi Calais Bruges Ghent Brussels Leuven Liege Eupen Aachen Cologne Olpe Wetzlar Giessen Bad Hersfeld Eisenach Erfurt Gera Chemnitz Dresden Gorlitz Legnica Wroclaw Opole Gliwice Zabrze Katowice Krakow Rzeszow Jaroslaw Korczowa Lviv Rivne Zhytomyr Kyiv Kharkiv Luhansk Volgograd Astrakhan Atyrau Beyneu Qo ng irot Nukus Dasoguz Bukhara Navoiy Samarkand Jizzakh Tashkent Shymkent Zhambyl Bishkek Almaty Sary Ozek Taldykorgan Ucharal Taskesken Ayagoz Georgiyevka Oskemen Ridder 5 100 km 3 200 mi Brest Rennes Le Mans Paris Reims Metz Saarbrucken Mannheim Heilbronn Nuremberg Rozvadov Plzen Prague Jihlava Brno Trencin Presov Kosice Vysne Nemecke Uzhhorod Mukachevo Stryj Ternopil Khmelnytskyi Vinnytsia Uman Kropyvnytskyi Dnipro Donetsk Rostov on Don Armavir Mineralnye Vody Makhachkala 8 200 km 5 100 mi Brest Lorient Vannes Nantes Angers Tours Orleans Montargis Auxerre Beaune Dole Besancon Belfort Mulhouse Basel Zurich Winterthur St Gallen St Margrethen Bregenz Lauterach Feldkirch Landeck Imst Telfs Innsbruck Worgl Rosenheim Bad Reichenhall Salzburg Sattledt Linz Sankt Polten Vienna Nickelsdorf Mosonmagyarovar Budapest Szolnok Puspokladany Oradea Cluj Napoca Turda Targu Mures Brasov Ploiesti Bucharest Urziceni Slobozia Harsova Constanţa Agigea Poti Senaki Samtredia Kutaisi Khashuri Gori Tbilisi Rustavi Ganja Yevlakh Baku Turkmenbasy Serdar Ashgabat Tejen Mary Turkmenabat Alat Bukhara Karshi G uzor Sherobod Termez Dushanbe Jirgatal Sary Tash Irkeshtam 4 550 km 2 830 mi A Coruna Gijon Bilbao San Sebastian Bordeaux Clermont Ferrand Lyon Chambery Susa Turin Alessandria Tortona Brescia Verona Mestre Palmanova Trieste Postojna Ljubljana Zagreb Slavonski Brod Belgrade Pancevo Vrsac Timișoara Drobeta Turnu Severin Craiova Alexandria Bucharest Giurgiu Ruse Razgrad Shumen Varna Samsun Ordu Giresun Trabzon Batumi Poti 5 600 km 3 500 mi Lisbon Valladolid Burgos San Sebastian Toulouse Nice Genoa Rome Pescara Dubrovnik Podgorica Pristina Nis Sofia Plovdiv Istanbul Izmit Gerede Amasya Erzurum Gurbulak Iran 4 770 km 2 960 mi Lisbon Madrid Barcelona Mazara del Vallo Palermo Messina Reggio Calabria Metaponto Taranto Brindisi Igoumenitsa Ioannina Kozani Thessaloniki Alexandroupoli Gelibolu Lapseki Bursa Ankara Adana Nusaybin Khabur River IraqNorth South intermediate Edit 1 460 km 910 mi Larne Belfast Newry Dublin Wicklow Rosslare A Coruna Pontevedra Vigo Valenca Porto Lisbon Albufeira Castro Marim Huelva Seville 470 km 290 mi Cherbourg Octeville La Rochelle The E4 and E6 run north south but are listed as west east routes 250 km 160 mi Pau Pyrenees Atlantiques Jaca Zaragoza 967 km 601 mi Orleans Toulouse Barcelona 540 km 340 mi Vierzon Montlucon Clermont Ferrand Montpellier 230 km 140 mi Leeds Doncaster Sheffield Nottingham Leicester Northampton London 670 km 420 mi Antwerp Beaune 520 km 320 mi Amsterdam Brussels Paris 540 km 340 mi Metz Geneva 390 km 240 mi Metz Lausanne 350 km 220 mi Belfort Bern Martigny Aosta 290 km 180 mi Cologne Sarreguemines E25 towards Strasbourg 520 km 320 mi Rotterdam Ludwigshafen 100 km 62 mi Parma La Spezia 290 km 180 mi Bremen Cologne 1 330 km 830 mi Trondheim Orkanger Vinjeora Halsa Straumsnes Kristiansund Mainland Connection Batnfjordsora Molde Vestnes Skodje Alesund Volda Nordfjordeid Sandane Forde Lavik Instefjord Knarvik Bergen Os Stord Sveio Aksdal Bokn Rennesoy Randaberg Stavanger Sandnes Helleland Flekkefjord Lyngdal Mandal Kristiansand Hirtshals Hjorring Norresundby Aalborg 760 km 470 mi Dortmund Wetzlar Aschaffenburg Wurzburg Stuttgart Schaffhausen Winterthur Zurich Altdorf 510 km 320 mi Wurzburg Ulm Lindau Bregenz St Margrethen Buchs Chur San Bernardino Bellinzona 290 km 180 mi Helsingborg Helsingor Copenhagen Koge Vordingborg Faro Rodby Puttgarden Oldenburg in Holstein Lubeck Most of the E6 route in Norway and Sweden was meant to be part of this route but kept its old number 740 km 460 mi Magdeburg Halle Plauen Schonberg Vojtanov Cheb Karlovy Vary Plzen Ceske Budejovice Halamky Vienna 410 km 250 mi Berlin Leipzig Gera Hirschberg Hof Bayreuth Nuremberg 270 km 170 mi Plzen Bayerisch Eisenstein Deggendorf Munich 380 km 240 mi Sattledt Liezen Sankt Michael Graz Maribor Ljubljana 660 km 410 mi Prague Jihlava Vienna Graz Spielfeld Maribor Zagreb 240 km 150 mi Villach Karawanks Tunnel Naklo Ljubljana Trieste Rijeka 1 110 km 690 mi Sodankyla Kemijarvi Posio Kuusamo Kajaani Iisalmi Kuopio Jyvaskyla Tampere Turku 1 630 km 1 010 mi Helsinki Tallinn Riga Kaunas Warsaw Piotrkow Trybunalski Wroclaw Klodzko Kudowa Zdroj Nachod Hradec Kralove Prague also known as the Via Baltica 130 km 81 mi Nordkapp North Cape Olderfjord 970 km 600 mi Kosice Miskolc Budapest Balatonvilagos Nagykanizsa Zagreb Karlovac Knin Split 679 km 422 mi Budapest Szekszard Mohacs Osijek Odzak Zenica Sarajevo Mostar Metkovic 1 690 km 1 050 mi Pskov Riga Siauliai Tolpaki Kaliningrad Gdansk Elblag Warsaw Radom Krakow Trstena Ruzomberok Zvolen Budapest 1 160 km 720 mi Miskolc Debrecen Berettyoujfalu Oradea Beiuș Deva Petroșani Targu Jiu Craiova Calafat Vidin Vraca Botevgrad Sofia Blagoevgrad Serres Thessaloniki 990 km 620 mi Mukachevo Halmeu Satu Mare Zalău Cluj Napoca Turda Sebeș Sibiu Pitești Bucharest Constanţa 250 km 160 mi Byala Pleven Jablanica Botevgrad Sofia 2 030 km 1 260 mi Odessa Izmail Reni Galaţi Tulcea Constanţa Varna Burgas Malko Tarnovo Derekoy Kirklareli Babaeski Havsa Kesan Gelibolu Ayvalik Izmir Selcuk Aydin Denizli Acipayam Korkuteli Antalya 130 km 81 mi Gerede Kizilcahamam Ankara 170 km 110 mi Toprakkale Iskenderun Antakya Yayladagi Syria 1 150 km 710 mi Kherson Dzhankoy Novorossiysk Sochi Sokhumi Zugdidi Senaki 750 km 470 mi Sanliurfa Diyarbakir Bitlis Dogubayazit Igdir Dilucu SadarakWest East intermediate Edit 1 590 km 990 mi Helsingborg Jonkoping Linkoping Norrkoping Nykoping Sodertalje Stockholm Uppsala Sundsvall Ornskoldsvik Umea Lulea Haparanda Tornio runs north south but listed as west east Was to be numbered as part of E55 but kept old number 3 120 km 1 940 mi Trelleborg Malmo Helsingborg Halmstad Gothenburg Oslo Hamar Lillehammer Dombas Trondheim Stjordal Steinkjer Mosjoen Mo i Rana Rognan Fauske Ballangen Narvik Setermoen Alta Olderfjord Lakselv Karasjok Varangerbotn Kirkenes runs mostly north south but listed as west east Helsingborg Alta was to be part of the E47 but kept old number 1 410 km 880 mi Tromso Nordkjosbotn Skibotn Kilpisjarvi Kolari Tornio Kemi Oulu Kokkola Vaasa Pori Turku 910 km 570 mi Mo i Rana Umea Vaasa Tampere Hameenlinna Helsinki 449 km 279 mi Trondheim Ostersund Sundsvall 710 km 440 mi Derry Belfast Glasgow Edinburgh Bergen Arna Voss Laerdal Tyin Fagernes Honefoss Sandvika Oslo Gardermoen Kongsvinger Torsby Malung Borlange Falun Sandviken Gavle 1 890 km 1 170 mi Craigavon Belfast Larne Stranraer Gretna Carlisle Newcastle Kristiansand Arendal Porsgrunn Larvik Sandefjord Horten Drammen Oslo Askim Karlstad Orebro Vasteras Stockholm Kapellskar Mariehamn Turku Naantali Helsinki Kotka Vaalimaa Vyborg Saint Petersburg 5 320 km 3 310 mi Holyhead Chester Warrington Manchester Leeds Doncaster Immingham Amsterdam Groningen Bremen Hamburg Lubeck Rostock Sassnitz Trelleborg Malmo Kalmar Norrkoping Ventspils Riga Rezekne Velikiye Luki Moscow Vladimir Nizhny Novgorod Kazan Yelabuga Perm Asia Yekaterinburg Tyumen Ishim 230 km 140 mi Birmingham Cambridge Ipswich 280 km 170 mi Hamburg Berlin 1 230 km 760 mi Berlin Szczecin Goleniow Koszalin Slupsk Gdynia Gdansk Kaliningrad Tolpaki Nesterov Marijampole Vilnius Minsk 30 km 19 mi Colchester Harwich 470 km 290 mi Zeebrugge Antwerp Eindhoven Venlo Oberhausen Dortmund Bad Oeynhausen 220 km 140 mi Berlin Lubbenau Cottbus Legnica 3 400 km 2 100 mi Hlukhiv Kursk Voronezh Saratov Oral Aktobe Karabulak Aral Novokazalinsk Kyzylorda Shymkent 620 km 390 mi Dunkirk Lille Mons Charleroi Namur Liege St Vith Wittlich Bingen Wiesbaden Frankfurt am Main Aschaffenburg 780 km 480 mi Le Havre Amiens Charleville Mezieres Luxembourg Trier Koblenz Wetzlar Giessen 720 km 450 mi Cherbourg Octeville Caen Rouen Reims Charleville Mezieres Liege 350 km 220 mi Schweinfurt Bayreuth Marktredwitz Cheb Karlovy Vary Prague 520 km 320 mi Strasbourg Appenweier Karlsruhe Stuttgart Ulm Munich Salzburg 860 km 530 mi Paris Chaumont Mulhouse Basel Waldshut Lindau Munich 310 km 190 mi Nuremberg Regensburg Passau Wels Sattledt 2 200 km 1 400 mi Vienna Bratislava Zvolen Kosice Uzhhorod Mukachevo Halmeu Suceava Iași Sculeni Chisinău Odessa Mykolaiv Kherson Melitopol Taganrog Rostov on Don 1 290 km 800 mi Nantes Poitiers Macon Geneva Lausanne Martigny Sion Simplon Gravellona Toce Milan Tortona Genoa 240 km 150 mi Turin Milan Brescia 650 km 400 mi Fortezza Innichen Spittal an der Drau Villach Klagenfurt Graz Veszprem Szekesfehervar 510 km 320 mi Szeged Arad Deva Sibiu Brasov 250 km 160 mi Bordeaux Toulouse 240 km 150 mi Nice Cuneo Asti Alessandria 80 km 50 mi Pisa Migliarino Florence 270 km 170 mi Grosseto Arezzo Sansepolcro Fano 380 km 240 mi Porto Vila Real Braganca Zamora Tordesillas 150 km 93 mi Kesan Tekirdag Silivri 200 km 120 mi Krystallopigi Florina Vevi Gefira 640 km 400 mi Ankara Yozgat Sivas Refahiye 320 km 200 mi Igoumenitsa Ioannina Trikala Larissa Volos 110 km 68 mi Corinth Megara Attiki Odos Elefsina Athens Suburbs Markopoulo Mesogeas 440 km 270 mi Izmir Usak Afyonkarahisar Sivrihisar 60 km 37 mi Topbogazi Kirikhan Reyhanli Cilvegozu SyriaB Class roads Edit 460 km 290 mi Haugesund Roldal Haukeli Seljord Kongsberg Drammen Vassum 176 km 109 mi Alesund Tresfjord Andalsnes Dombas 170 km 110 mi Cork Portlaoise 40 km 25 mi Amsterdam Amersfoort 172 km 107 mi Amersfoort Hoogeveen Groningen 132 km 82 mi Hoogeveen Haselunne Cloppenburg 162 km 101 mi Cuxhaven Bremerhaven Bremen Walsrode 281 km 175 mi Sassnitz Stralsund Neubrandenburg Berlin 350 km 220 mi Swiecie Poznan Wroclaw 417 km 259 mi Kaunas Ukmerge Daugavpils Rezekne Ostrov 280 km 170 mi Tallinn Tartu Voru Luhamaa 340 km 210 mi Johvi Tartu Valga Valka Valmiera Incukalns 60 km 37 mi Tallinn Keila Paldiski Kapellskar 296 km 184 mi Minsk Babruysk Gomel formerly began Klaipeda Kaunas Vilnius 380 km 240 mi Klaipeda Palanga Siauliai Panevezys Ukmerge Vilnius 67 km 42 mi Breda Gorinchem Utrecht 160 km 99 mi Flushing Breda Eindhoven 112 km 70 mi Antwerp Liege 125 km 78 mi Leuven Hasselt Heerlen Aachen 150 km 93 mi Dortmund Kassel 358 km 222 mi Radom Rzeszow Barwinek Vysny Komarnik Svidnik Presov 367 km 228 mi Warsaw Lublin Lviv 590 km 370 mi Lublin Kovel Rivne Kyiv 160 km 99 mi Trosna Hlukhiv 200 km 120 mi Saint Brieuc Caen 425 km 264 mi Calais Rouen Le Mans 96 km 60 mi Zeebrugge Bruges Roeselare Kortrijk Tournai 0 km 0 mi Jabbeke Zeebrugge road never built 270 km 170 mi Brussels Metz 187 km 116 mi Nivelles Charleroi Reims 153 km 95 mi Eynatten Eupen St Vith Luxembourg 82 km 51 mi Trier Saarbrucken 65 km 40 mi Tournai Halle 110 km 68 mi Chemnitz Plauen Hof E51 568 km 353 mi Karlovy Vary Teplice Turnov Hradec Kralove Olomouc Zilina 125 km 78 mi Giessen Frankfurt am Main Mannheim 190 km 120 mi Svitavy Brno Vienna 310 km 190 mi Brno Olomouc Cesky Tesin Katowice Krakow 210 km 130 mi Mukachevo Lviv 90 km 56 mi Le Mans Angers 90 km 56 mi Le Mans Tours 100 km 62 mi Courtenay Troyes 80 km 50 mi Remiremont Mulhouse 95 km 59 mi Offenburg Donaueschingen 70 km 43 mi Memmingen Fussen 125 km 78 mi Munich Garmisch Partenkirchen Mittenwald Seefeld Innsbruck 110 km 68 mi Ceske Budejovice Humpolec 230 km 140 mi Munich Braunau am Inn Wels Linz 403 km 250 mi Bratislava Zvolen Kosice 101 km 63 mi Trencin Ziar nad Hronom 193 km 120 mi Puspokladany Nyiregyhaza Chop Uzhhorod 416 km 258 mi Bacău Brașov Pitești Craiova 95 km 59 mi Bratislava Dunajska Streda Medvedov Vamosszabadi Gyor 58 km 36 mi Cluj Napoca Dej formerly continued Bistriţa Suceava 75 km 47 mi Ploiesti Buzău 228 km 142 mi Sărățel Reghin Toplița Gheorgheni Miercurea Ciuc Sfantu Gheorghe Chichiș 100 km 62 mi Gorbehaza Nyiregyhaza Vasarosnameny Beregdaroc 441 km 274 mi Tișița Tecuci Albița Leușeni Chișinău Odessa 628 km 390 mi Săbăoani Iași Bălți Mohyliv Podilskyi Vinnytsia Zhytomyr 938 km 583 mi Poltava Kropyvnytskyi Chisinău Giurgiulesti Galaţi Slobozia 415 km 258 mi Novorossiysk junction south of Rostov on Don a 113 km 70 mi Krasnodar Dzhubga 61 km 38 mi Niort La Rochelle 195 km 121 mi La Rochelle Saintes 172 km 107 mi Saintes Angouleme Limoges formerly to Sculeni 128 km 80 mi Tours Vierzon 120 km 75 mi Angouleme Bordeaux 88 km 55 mi Digoin Chalon sur Saone 58 km 36 mi Lyon Pont d Ain 54 km 34 mi Ivrea Turin 106 km 66 mi Worgl St Johann in Tirol Lofer Salzburg 73 km 45 mi Altenmarkt im Pongau Liezen 52 km 32 mi Klagenfurt Loiblpass Naklo 107 km 66 mi Letenye Tornyiszentmiklos 447 km 278 mi Balatonkeresztur Nagyatad Barcs Virovitica Okucani Banja Luka Jajce Donji Vakuf Zenica 121 km 75 mi Subotica Sombor Osijek 322 km 200 mi Timișoara Arad Oradea Satu Mare 103 km 64 mi Lugoj Ilia 59 km 37 mi Agigea Negru Vodă Kardam 460 km 290 mi Ashtarak Gyumri Ashotsk Akhalkalaki Akhaltsikhe Vale Georgia Turkgozu Posof Kars Horasan 113 km 70 mi Supsa Lanchkhuti Samtredia 111 km 69 mi Lyon Grenoble 452 km 281 mi Geneva Chambery Marseille 92 km 57 mi Valence Grenoble 117 km 73 mi Orange Marseille 141 km 88 mi Turin Savona 160 km 99 mi Rijeka Pula Koper 742 km 461 mi Bihac Jajce Donji Vakuf Zenica Sarajevo Uzice Cacak Kraljevo Krusevac Pojate Paracin Zajecar 328 km 204 mi Sarajevo Podgorica Albania 348 km 216 mi Belgrade Cacak Nova Varos Bijelo Polje 225 km 140 mi Drobeta Turnu Severin Nis 258 km 160 mi Yablanitsa Veliko Tarnovo Shumen 273 km 170 mi Popovica Stara Zagora Burgas 262 km 163 mi Coimbra Viseu Vila Real Chaves Verin 599 km 372 mi Braganca Guarda Castelo Branco Portalegre Evora Beja Ourique 463 km 288 mi Salamanca Merida Seville 292 km 181 mi Bilbao Logrono Zaragoza 124 km 77 mi Vila Nova de Famalicao Chaves 209 km 130 mi Torres Novas Abrantes Castelo Branco Guarda 36 km 22 mi Rome San Cesareo 105 km 65 mi Sassari Olbia Civitavecchia ends at E80 38 km 24 mi Avellino Salerno 257 km 160 mi Naples Avellino Benevento Canosa di Puglia 96 km 60 mi Bari Taranto 24 km 15 mi Spezzano Albanese Sybaris 112 km 70 mi Cosenza Crotone 159 km 99 mi Sicignano degli Alburni Potenza Metaponto 38 km 24 mi Sant Eufemia Lamezia Catanzaro 323 km 201 mi Petrovac Albania Prizren Pristina 29 km 18 mi Ohrid Albania 61 km 38 mi Ioannina Albania 194 km 121 mi Sofia Kyustendil Kumanovo 550 km 340 mi Izmit Bursa Balikesir Manisa Izmir Cesme 352 km 219 mi Madrid Valencia 280 km 170 mi Jaen Granada Malaga 672 km 418 mi Merida Ciudad Real Albacete Alicante citation needed 187 km 116 mi Mazara del Vallo Gela 161 km 100 mi Buonfornello Enna Catania 50 km 31 mi Alcamo Trapani 193 km 120 mi Ioannina Arta Agrinio Missolonghi 247 km 153 mi Aktio Vonitsa Amfilochia Karpenisi Lamia 101 km 63 mi Tripoli Sparti Gytheio 51 km 32 mi Eleusina Thebes 403 km 250 mi Afyon Konya Junction Aksaray Pozanti on the State road linking Ankara and Mersin on E90 66 km 41 mi Mersin Junction Tarsus East on the motorway linking Ankara and Adana on E90 117 km 73 mi Tbilisi Marneuli Sadakhlo Bagratashen Vanadzor 481 km 299 mi Alyat Saatly Rayon Megri Ordubad Julfa Nakhchivan Sadarak 1 120 km 700 mi Uchkuduk Dasoguz Ashgabat Gaudan 700 km 430 mi Kyzylorda Uchkuduk Bukhara NB most of road not built 154 km 96 mi G uzor Samarkand 298 km 185 mi Ayni Kokand 590 km 370 mi Tashkent Kokand Andijan Osh Irkeshtam 970 km 600 mi Dushanbe Kulob Kalaikhumb Khorugh Murghab Kulma Pass border of China see Pamir Highway 666 km 414 mi Jirgatal Khorugh Ishkoshim Lyanga China 650 km 400 mi Osh Bishkek 179 km 111 mi Kokpek Kegen Tyup 360 km 220 mi Almaty Kokpek Chundzha Koktal Khorgas 180 km 110 mi Sary Ozek Koktal 182 km 113 mi Usharal Druzhba 193 km 120 mi Taskesken Bakhty 495 km 308 mi Zapadnoe Zhaksy Atbasar Astana 320 km 200 mi Yelabuga Ufa 1 071 km 665 mi Jezkazgan Karaganda Pavlodar Uspenovka 289 km 180 mi Petropavl ZapadnoeNotable E roads Edit An aerial view of the European route E12 between the cities of Tampere and Helsinki in Finland E80 together with Asian Highway 1 crosses all of Europe and Asia linking Lisbon with Tokyo The longest E road is E40 which is more than 8 500 km 5 300 mi long connecting France with Kazakhstan The shortest E road is E844 22 km 14 mi in the Italian region of Calabria Northernmost is E69 North Cape Norway 71 10 N Westernmost is E1 Lisbon Portugal 9 10 W Southernmost is E75 Crete Greece 35 6 N Easternmost is E127 Maykapshagay Kazakhstan 85 36 E The highest E road is E008 which reaches 4 272 m 14 016 ft altitude in the Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan The highest E road in Europe is E62 reaching 2 005 m 6 578 ft at the Simplon Pass Switzerland The lowest E road is E39 which reaches 262 m 860 ft below sea level in the Bomlafjord Tunnel Norway The longest bridge on an E road is the Crimean Bridge in Russia on E97 which is 16 900 metres 55 400 ft The longest tunnel on an E road is the Laerdal Tunnel in Norway on E16 which is 24 510 metres 80 410 ft the longest road tunnel in the world As of 2015 update E16 includes 60 tunnels covering about 15 of the road s 630 km 391 mi within Norway The E39 includes 9 ferry crossings The E39 includes 90 tunnels 6 of the road s 1 140 km 708 mi within Norway Historical numbering EditThese were the historical roads before 1975 Number Start via EndE1 London Southampton Le Havre Paris Lyon Nice Ventimiglia Genoa La Spezia Pisa Livorno Rome Naples Salerno Reggio di Calabria Messina PalermoE2 London Dover Calais Reims Dijon Dole Lausanne Simplon Milan Parma Modena Bologna Ancona Foggia Bari BrindisiE3 Lisbon Salamanca San Sebastian Bordeaux Paris Lille Gent Antwerp Eindhoven Venlo Oberhausen Bielefeld Hannover Hamburg Flensburg Kolding Frederikshavn Gothenburg Arboga StockholmE4 Lisbon Elvas Merida Madrid Zaragoza Barcelona Nimes Chambery Genf Lausanne Bern Basel Karlsruhe Frankfurt Main Kassel Gottingen Hannover Hamburg Lubeck Fehmarn Vordingborg Copenhagen Helsingor Helsingborg Jonkoping Stockholm Uppsala Sundsvall Umea Tornio Lahti HelsinkiE5 London Dover Calais Gent Brussels Liege Cologne Frankfurt Main Wurzburg Nuremberg Passau Linz Melk Vienna Nickelsdorf Gyor Budapest Szeged Belgrade Gevgelija Thessaloniki Alexandroupolis Peplos Ipsala Silivri Istanbul Izmit Bolu Ankara Aksaray Adana Iskenderun Turkey Syria borderE6 Rome Florence Bologna Modena Verona Trento Brenner Innsbruck Griesen Munich Nuremberg Hof Leipzig Berlin Stralsund Sassnitz Trelleborg Malmo Helsingborg Gothenburg Svinesund Oslo Hamar Otta Trondheim StjordalE7 Rome Perugia Forli Bologna Ferrara Padua Mestre Cervignano Udine Villach Bruck an der Mur Vienna Brno Cesky Tesin Krakow WarsawE8 London Harwich Hook of Holland The Hague Utrecht Osnabruck Hannover Magdeburg Berlin Poznan Krosniewice Warsaw Poland USSR borderE9 Amsterdam Maastricht Liege Arlon Luxembourg Metz Strasbourg Mulhausen Basel Olten Luzern Andermatt Gotthard Lugano Chiasso Como Milan Tortona GenoaE10 Paris Cambrai Brussels Antwerp Rotterdam The Hague AmsterdamE11 Paris Saint Dizier Nancy Strasbourg Karlsruhe Stuttgart Munich SalzburgE12 Paris Metz Saarbrucken Mannheim Nuremberg Pilsen Prague Nachod Klodzko Lodz Warsaw Bialystok MoscowE13 Lyon Modena Turin Milan Brescia Verona Padua VeniceE14 Trieste Ronchi Udine Villach Salzburg Linz Tabor Prague Jablonec SzczecinE15 Hamburg Berlin Dresden Zinnwald Prague Brno Breclav Bratislava BudapestE16 Bratislava Cesky Tesin Katowice Lodz Gdansk GdyniaE17 Chagny Dijon Basel Zurich Winterthur St Gallen St Margarethen Innsbruck Worgl SalzburgE18 Stavanger Kristiansand Larvik Oslo Karlstad Arboga Koping StockholmE19 Albania Greece border Ioannina Arta Agrinio Antirion Rion CorinthE20 Koritza Vari Edessa Thessaloniki SofiaE21 Aosta Turin SavonaE21a Martigny Grosser St Bernhard AostaE21b Geneva Bonneville Mont Blanc AostaE22 Berlin Wroclaw Opole Bytom Krakow Rzeszow Przemysl Poland Ukraine borderE23 Ankara Kirsehir Kayseri Sivas Erzincan Erzurum Agri Turkey Iran borderE24 Komurler Gaziantep Urfa Mardin Cizre Hakkari Bajerge Turkey Iran borderE25 Burgos Madrid Bailen Sevilla Cadiz AlgeciresE26 Barcelona Tarragona Castellon de la Plana Valencia Granada Malaga AlgecirasE31 London St Albans Northampton Doncaster Scotch Corner Carlisle Abington GlasgowE32 Abington EdinburghE33 Northampton Coventry Cannock Warrington LiverpoolE34 Amsterdam Cannock Shrewsbury Corwen HolyheadE35 Amsterdam Amersfoort Zwolle Groningen Winschoten Oldenburg HamburgE36 Hook of Holland Rotterdam Gouda Utrecht Arnhem Oberhausen CologneE37 Breda Gorinchem UtrechtE38 Breda EindhovenE39 Antwerp Heerlen AachenE40 Brussels Namur BastogneE41 Calais Valenciennes Mons Charleroi Namur LiegeE42 Phalsbourg Sarreguemines Saarbrucken Luxembourg Echternach Bitburg Prum Euskirchen CologneE43 Avallon DijonE44 Balfort MulhausenE45 Dole La Curs La Faucille Gex GenevaE46 Lyon Amberieu GenevaE47 Aix en Provence MarseilleE48 Nimes MarseilleE49 Bordeaux Toulouse NarbonneE50 Coimbra Porto Vigo A Coruna Oviedo Santander Bilbao San SebastianE51 Albergaria a Velha Viseu Celorico da BeiraE52 Vila Franca de Xira Pegoes Beja Vila Verde de Ficalho Rosal de la Frontera SevillaE53 Turin Asti Alessandria TortonaE54 Canteggio PiacenzaE55 Pisa Migliarino PistoiaE56 Ponte Garigliano Caserta FoggiaE57 Naples ArienzoE58 Bari TarentE59 Messina SyracuseE60 Arth ZurichE61 Bellinzona San Bernardino Chur St Margrethen Bregenz Lindau MunichE62 Hof Karl Marx Stadt Leipzig Halle MagdeburgE63 Hamm Kassel Herleshausen Erfurt Karl Marx Stadt DresdenE64 Berlin Neubrandenburg Rostock Warnemunde Gedser Nykobing Vordingborg CopenhagenE65 Lubeck Rostock StralsundE66 Esbjerg Kolding Middelfart Nyborg Korsor Copenhagen MalmoE67 Vejle MiddelfartE68 Bergen Gudvangen Laerdalsoyra Nystua Fagernes OsloE69 Alesund Andalsnes DombasE70 Winterthur Schaffhausen Donaueschingen Tubingen Stuttgart Heilbronn Schwabisch Hall Wurzburg Fulda Hersfeld HerleshausenE71 Hannover Bremen BremerhavenE72 Oldenzaal Lingen BremenE73 Cologne HammE74 Berlin SzczecinE75 Stjordal Storlien Ostersund SundvallE77 Feldkirch BuchsE78 Tornio KilpisjarviE79 Vaasa Tampere HelsinkiE80 Turku Helsinki Lappeenranta ImatraE81 Gdansk Elblag Ostroda Mlawa Warsaw Lublin Poland Ukraine borderE82 Piotrkow WarsawE83 Jelenia Gora Wroclaw Poznan Swiecie GrudziadzE84 Prague Jihlava Znojmo ViennaE85 Olomouc Zilina Presov Kosice Romania Bulgaria borderE86 Worgl RosenheimE87 Ioannina Trikkala Larissa VolosE88 Ioannina PrevezaE89 Rion PatrasE90 Vevi KozaniE91 Cervignano RonchiE92 Thessaloniki Aghios Athanasios Verria Kozani Larissa Lamia Athens Corinth Argos KalamaiE93 Bruck an der Mur Graz Spielfeld Sentilj Maribor LjubljanaE94 Klagenfurt Loibltunnel Ljubljana Zagreb Belgrad Bela Crkva Yugoslavia Romania borderE95 Nis Dimitrovgrad Yugoslavia Bulgaria borderE96 Rijeka Zagreb Cakovec Donja Lendava Yugoslavia Hungary borderE97 Bulgaria Turkey border Edirne Buyukkaristiran SilivriE98 Kemerhisar Nigde KayseriE99 Toprakkale Kahramanmaras Malatya Elazig Tunceli SelepurE101 Madrid ValenciaE102 Merida Link with E52E103 Bailen Granada Motril MalagaSee also Edit Roads portal Europe portalEuropean long distance paths List of long distance hiking paths EuroVelo European cycling network Pan European corridors EU road rail and waterway investment priority areas Road transport Collective term for all forms of transport which takes place on roads National Road network Netherlands a former system devised to complement the E road network at a national level Other intercontinental highway systems Asian Highway Network International road network connecting Asia and parts of Europe Arab Mashreq International Road Network Interstate Highway System Network of freeways in the United States Trans African Highway network Transcontinental roads project in Africa United States Numbered Highway System Highway system of the United States of AmericaNotes Edit Still in the list despite entirely dublicating south part of E115 References Edit Declaration on the Construction of Main International Traffic Arteries signed at Geneva PDF United Nations Treaty Series 16 September 1950 Archived from the original PDF on 12 August 2014 Retrieved 27 December 2010 Declaration on the Construction of Main International Traffic Arteries signed at Geneva PDF United Nations Treaty Series 16 September 1950 Retrieved 1 July 2012 a b E Roads Archived from the original on 3 March 2012 Retrieved 5 September 2012 a b c d European Agreement on Main International Traffic Arteries PDF United Nations Economic and Social Council 14 March 2008 Archived PDF from the original on 31 January 2012 Retrieved 27 December 2010 2 Directional Information Signs PDF Traffic Signs Manual 2010 Ireland Department of Transport Tourism and Sport November 2010 2 3 34 36 2 4 108 2 4 116 2 5 87 Archived PDF from the original on 14 June 2015 Retrieved 23 November 2017 Statutory Instrument 2002 No 3113 The Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2002 HMSO Retrieved 27 December 2010 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to International E road network Geographic data related to International E road network at OpenStreetMap European roads and cities map built on OpenStreetMap s data EU Transport Networks home page Introduction to EU European routes with links at the Wayback Machine archived January 9 2008 UNECE document ECE TRANS SC 1 2016 03 Rev1 European Agrement sic On Main International Traffic Arteries AGR 1 November 2016 PDF file official E route list starting at p 9 Map of E road network UNECE document 2007 Routes in Benelux as well as E routes in Europe Trans Global Highway and the Eur Africa Friendship Tunnel Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title International E road network amp oldid 1132413919, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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