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Highway Types All state highway systems and most of the local highway and street systems encompass several type or classes of highway .At one extreme are high-speed ,high-volume facilities carrying though traffic , with no attempt made to serve abutting property or purely local traffic. At the other are local rural roads or streets that carry low volumes ‘sometimes at low speeds ,and with a primary function of land service. Definitions for the various types of highways (and for many other highway term ) were prepared in 1968 by an (then) AASHO Special committee on Nomenclature .These are published as AASHO Highway Definitions .some of these are as follows: Expressway? Divided arterial highway for though traffic with full or partial control of access and generally with grade separations at major intersectio n. Freeway? Expressway with full control of access? Parkway- Arterial highway for noncommercial traffic , with full or partial control of access .and usually located within a park or a ribbon of parklike development ? Control of access 一 Condition where the right of owner or occupants of abutting land or other persons to access ?light ,air ,or view in connection with a highway is full or partially controlled by public authorit y. Full control of access means that the authority to control access is exercised to give preference to though traffic by providing access connections with selected public roads only and by prohibiting crossings at grade or direct private driveway connections. Partial control of access means that the authority to control access is to give preference to though traffic to degree that .in addition to access connections with selected public roads ,there many be some crossings at grade and some private driveway connections? The other highway types lack the feature of access control .they include: Major street or major highway 一 Arterial highway within intersections at grade and direct access to abutting property , and on which geometric design an