CLASSIFICATION OF URBAN ROADS:-

The urban roads are classified into the following five categories;
 Expressways :- The purpose of expressways is to cater for mobility of large
volume of motor traffic at high speed. Vehicle parking , loading and
unloading of products and passengers and pedestrian traffic are not
allowed on these kind of highways.
 Arterial Road:- The roads that connects the town to a state highways or a
national highway is termed as arterial road. It passes within the city limits
and carries great masses of traffic between different parts of the town. The
arterial road include ring roads, by-pass roads, etc, and they allow free
movement of fast traffic at higher speeds.
 Sub-Arterial Roads:- These roads are also known as the major roads or
secondary roads. They are contained within city limits and they connect
important town centres.These roads serve slow moving traffic over short
distances.
 Local Roads :- These roads are also known as minor roads . They collect
traffic from various parts of the town and lead it to another minor or major
road. The local roads are not allowed to touch or to come in contact with
the arterial roads and the two are separated by a bridge and one goes over
the another.
 Streets :- A road which serves the need of an internal portions of a local
area is known as street . The portion to be served may either by
residential , commercial , or industrial .
 Pathways :- These are also known as the pedestrian ways and they are in
the form of accesses leading to individual shop or premises . The vehicular
traffic is not allowed to move on the pathway.
DIFFERENT TYPES OF STREET SYSTEM :-
1. Rectangular street system :- In this pattern , the streets are usually of equal
width and they cross at right angles. It is also known as Grid – Iron ,or
chequer-board pattern.
Example :- Jaipur
2. Rectangular with superimposed diagonal street system:- This arrangement
is an improvement on grid iron pattern . The diagonal street provides direct
communication between distant parts of the street . The point where
diagonals meet are utilized for park , garden , memorial etc.
Example :-
3. Concentric street system :- In this system the ring roads or circumferential
roads are connected with radial roads .
Example :-
4. Radial street system :- In this pattern, the ring roads spring from the
central civic centre like the spokes of a wheel.
Example :-
5. Combination of radial and rectangular street system :- In this arrangement
, the radial streets are blended or mixed with rectangular streets such a
combination can be used with great success especially where topographical
features are favourable.
Example:-
6. Topographical street system :- The street system is absolutely unplanned ,
the street pattern, however becomes pleasing and attractive only if it is
conformity with topography of the area and natural surrounding.