International E-road network

E-Road Network over 1990 borders

Approximate extent of completed motorway network in Europe as of May 2014

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 E 1 up and its roads cross national borders. It also reaches Central Asian countries like Kyrgyzstan, since they are members of the UNECE.

In most countries, roads carry the European route designation beside national road numbers. Other countries like Belgium, Denmark, Norway and Sweden have roads with exclusive European route signage (Examples: E 18 and E 6) while at the other end of the scale, British road signs do not show the routes at all.

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 September 16, 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 before November 15, 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 Caucausus 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 E 40.

Intersection of E 42 and E 451 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.
  • Numbers count upward 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 E 99 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 E 101 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, namely E 47 and E 55, have been allowed to retain their pre-1992 numbers, E 6 and E 4 respectively, within Sweden and Norway. 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, since Sweden and Norway have integrated the E-roads into their national networks and they are signposted as any other national route. These roads maintain their new numbers from Denmark and southward, though, as do other European routes within Scandinavia.

Further exceptions are E 67, going from Estonia to Poland (wrong side of E 75 and E 77), assigned around year 2000, simply because it was best available number for this new route, most of E 63 in Finland (wrong side of E 75) E 8 in Finland (partly on the wrong side of E 12 after a lengthening around 2002) and E 82 (Spain and Portugal, wrong side of E 80). 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 E 65 and E 90 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

E30

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

The E 201 in 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 only on the highway portions of the E-road network, while for non-motorways only the national number (if any) is shown. Serbia has a similar principle.
• In most of the 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, E-roads are well signposted, but they sometimes follow the old state routes instead of highways. State highways are signposted best.
• In some countries, like Germany and Italy, 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. 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 countries, such as the United Kingdom^[5] and Uzbekistan, the E-roads are not signposted at all.

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 (very exceptionally 60 km/h) (see Design speed). Motorways for at least 100 km/h.
• Gradients should not exceed 8% on roads designed for 60 km/h, decreasing to 4% on roads designed for 120 km/h traffic.
• The radius of curved sections of road should be a minimum of 120 m on roads designed for 60 km/h rising to 1000 m on roads designed for 140 km/h.
• "Stopping distance visibility" should be at least 70 m on roads designed for 60 km/h, rising to 300 m on roads designed for 140 km/h.
• Lane width should be at least 3.5 m on straight sections of road. This guarantees adequate clearance for any vehicle having a superstructure of width 2.55 m which is the maximum specified in EU directive 96/53/EC.,^[6] and 2.6 m specified by some countries.
• The shoulder is recommended to be at least 2.5 m on ordinary roads and 3.25 m on motorways.
• Central reservations should be at least 3 m unless there is a barrier between the two carriageways.
• Overhead clearance should be not less than 4.5 m.
• 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 E 45 in Sweden, added in 2006, has long parts with 6 m (20 ft) width or the E 22 in eastern Europe forcing drivers to slow down to 30 km/h by taking the route through villages. In Norway, parts of the E 10 are 5 m (16 ft) wide and in Central Asia some gravel roads have even been included.

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. There aren't ferry connections at all of these places and operating ferry connections are usually run by private companies without support from the respective governments, i.e. 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 Armenia and Azerbaijan.

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 Germany.

The E-road network in Georgia.

The E-road network in Italy.

The E-road network in the Netherlands.

The E-road network in Poland.

The E-road network in Romania.

The E-road network in Turkey.

The E-road network in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

The E-road network in Ukraine.

North-South reference

• E05 – 2,960 km (1,840 mi): Greenock – Glasgow – Preston – Birmingham – Southampton … Le Havre – Paris – Orléans – Bordeaux – San Sebastián – Burgos - Madrid – Seville – Algeciras
• E15 - 3,590 km (2,230 mi): Inverness – Perth – Edinburgh – Newcastle – London – Folkestone – Dover … Calais – Paris – Lyon – Orange – Narbonne – Girona – Barcelona – Tarragona – Castellón de la Plana – Valencia – Alicante – Murcia – Almería – Málaga – Algeciras
• E25 - 1,830 km (1,140 mi): Hook of Holland – Rotterdam – Eindhoven – Maastricht – Liège – 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
• E35 – 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
• E45 - 4,998 km (3,106 mi): Karesuvanto - Karesuando - Arvidsjaur - Östersund - Mora - Säffle - Gothenburg … Frederikshavn – Aalborg – Aarhus – Vejle – Kolding – Flensburg – Hamburg – Hanover – Göttingen – Kassel – Fulda – Würzburg – Nuremberg – Munich – Rosenheim – Wörgl – 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
• E55 - 2,920 km (1,810 mi): Helsingborg … Helsingør – Copenhagen – Køge – Vordingborg – Farø – Nykøbing Falster – Gedser … Rostock – Berlin – Lübbenau – Dresden – Ústí nad Labem – Prague – Tábor – Linz – Salzburg – Villach – Tarvisio – Udine – Palmanova – Mestre – Ravenna – Cesena – Rimini – Fano – Ancona – Pescara – Canosa di Puglia – Bari – Brindisi … Igoumenitsa – Preveza – Rhion – Patras – Pyrgos – Kalamata (See also E 4 below.)
• E65 - 3,800 km (2,400 mi): Malmö – Ystad … Świnoujście – Wolin – Goleniów – Szczecin – Gorzów Wielkopolski – Świebodzin – Zielona Góra – Legnica – Jelenia Góra – Harrachov – Železný Brod – Turnov – Mladá Boleslav – Prague – Jihlava – Brno – Bratislava – Rajka – Csorna – Szombathely – Zalaegerszeg – Nagykanizsa – Letenye – Zagreb – Karlovac – Rijeka – Split – Dubrovnik – Petrovac – Podgorica – Bijelo Polje – Pristina – Skopje – Kičevo – Ohrid - Bitola – Niki – Vevi – Kozani – Larissa – Domokos – Lamia – Bralos – Itea – Antirrio - Rhion – Aigio – Corinth – Tripoli – Kalamata … Kissamos – Chania
• E75 - 4,340 km (2,700 mi): Vardø – Vadsø – Varangerbotn – Utsjoki – Inari – Ivalo – Sodankylä – Rovaniemi – Kemi – Oulu – Jyväskylä – Heinola – Lahti – Helsinki … Gdańsk – Świecie – Łódź – Częstochowa – Katowice – Žilina – Bratislava – Győr – Budapest – Szeged – Subotica - Novi Sad - Belgrade – Niš – Kumanovo – Skopje – Veles - Gevgelija – Evzoni - Thessaloniki – Katerini - Larissa – Lamia – Athens … Chania – Heraklion – Agios Nikolaos – Sitia
• E85 - 2,300 km (1,400 mi): Klaipėda – 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
• E95 - 1,790 km (1,110 mi): Saint Petersburg – Pskov – Gomel – Kiev – Odessa … Samsun – Merzifon
• - 850 km (530 mi): Moscow – Kaluga – Bryansk – Hlukhiv – Kiev
• - 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 – Kuba – Baku – Alyat – Astara
• - 2,700 km (1,700 mi): Samara – Oral – Atyrau – Beineu – Shetpe – Zhetybai – Fetisovo – Bekdash – Türkmenbaşy – Gyzylarbat – 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 – Astana – Karaganda – Balkhash – Burubaytal – Almaty – Bishkek – Naryn – Torugart Pass
• - 1,330 km (830 mi): Omsk – Pavlodar – Semey – Georgiyevka – Maikapshagai

West-East reference

• - 880 km (550 mi): Å – Svolvær – Lødingen – Evenes – Narvik – Kiruna – Töre – Luleå
• - 1,880 km (1,170 mi): Shannon – Limerick – Dublin … Liverpool – Manchester – Leeds – Kingston upon Hull … Esbjerg – Copenhagen – Malmö – Helsingborg – Halmstad – Gothenburg – Skara - Örebro – 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 – Osnabrück – Bad Oeynhausen – Hanover – Braunschweig – Magdeburg – Berlin – Świebodzin – Poznań – Warsaw – Brest – Minsk – Smolensk – Moscow – Ryazan – Penza – Samara – Ufa – Chelyabinsk – Kurgan – Ishim – Omsk
• - 8,500 km (5,300 mi): Calais – Bruges – Ghent – Brussels – Leuven - Liège - Eupen – Aachen – Cologne – Olpe – Wetzlar – Gießen - Bad Hersfeld - Eisenach – Erfurt – Gera – Chemnitz – Dresden – Görlitz – Legnica – Wrocław – Opole – Gliwice – Zabrze - Katowice – Kraków – Rzeszów – Jarosław – Korczowa – Lviv – Rivne – Zhytomyr – Kiev – Kharkiv – Luhansk – Volgograd – Astrakhan – Atyrau – Beyneu – Qo‘ng‘irot – Nukus – Daşoguz – 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 – Saarbrücken – Mannheim – Heilbronn – Nuremberg – Rozvadov – Plzeň – Prague – Jihlava – Brno – Trenčín – Prešov – Košice – Vyšné Nemecké – Uzhhorod – Mukachevo – Stryj – Ternopil – Khmelnytskyi – Vinnytsia – Uman – Kirovohrad – Dnipropetrovsk – Donetsk – Rostov-on-Don – Armavir – Mineralnye Vody – Makhachkala...also known as "Via Caroli"
• - 8,200 km (5,100 mi): Brest – Lorient – Vannes – Nantes – Angers – Tours – Orléans – Montargis – Auxerre – Beaune – Dole – Besançon – Belfort – Mulhouse – Basel – Zürich – Winterthur – St. Gallen – St. Margrethen – Bregenz – Lauterach – Feldkirch – Landeck – Imst – Telfs – Innsbruck – Wörgl – Rosenheim – Bad Reichenhall – Salzburg – Sattledt – Linz – Sankt Pölten – Vienna – Nickelsdorf – Mosonmagyaróvár – Budapest – Szolnok – Püspökladány – Oradea – Cluj-Napoca – Turda – Târgu Mureş – Braşov – Ploieşti – Bucharest – Urziceni – Slobozia – Hârşova – Constanţa - Agigea … Poti – Senaki - Samtredia - Kutaisi – Khashuri – Gori – Tbilisi – Rustavi – Ganja – Yevlakh – Baku … Türkmenbaşy – Gyzylarbat – Ashgabat – Tejen – Mary – Türkmenabat – Alat – Bukhara – Karshi – Guzar – Sherobod – Termez – Dushanbe – Jirgatal – Sary Tash – Irkeshtam
• - 4,550 km (2,830 mi): A Coruña – Gijón – Bilbao – San Sebastián – Bordeaux – Clermont-Ferrand – Lyon – Chambéry – Susa – Turin – Alessandria – Tortona – Brescia – Verona – Mestre – Palmanova – Trieste – Postojna – Ljubljana – Zagreb – Slavonski Brod – Belgrade – Pančevo – Vršac – Timişoara – 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 Sebastián – Toulouse – Nice – Genoa – Rome – Pescara … Dubrovnik – Podgorica - Pristina – Niš - Sofia – Plovdiv - Istanbul – İzmit – Gerede – Amasya – Erzurum – Gürbulak – 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 – Iraq

North-South intermediate

• – 1,460 km (910 mi): Larne – Belfast - Newry - Dundalk - Drogheda – Dublin – Rosslare … A Coruña – Pontevedra – Vigo – Valença – Porto - Lisbon - Albufeira - Castro Marim – Huelva – Seville
• – 470 km (290 mi): Cherbourg-Octeville – La Rochelle
• – 3,120 km (1,940 mi): Trelleborg – Malmö – Helsingborg – Halmstad – Gothenburg – Oslo – Hamar – Lillehammer – Dombås – Trondheim – Stjørdal – Steinkjer – Mosjøen – Mo i Rana – Rognan – Fauske … Ballangen – Narvik – Setermoen – Alta – Olderfjord – Lakselv – Karasjok – Varangerbotn – Kirkenes (exception to the rule - see above)
• – 250 km (160 mi): Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques – Jaca – Zaragoza
• – 967 km (601 mi): Orléans – Toulouse – Barcelona
• – 540 km (340 mi): Vierzon – Montluçon – 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 – E 25 (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 – Vinjeøra – Halsa … Straumsnes – Kristiansund Mainland Connection – Batnfjordsøra – Molde … Vestnes – Skodje – Ålesund … Volda – Nordfjordeid … Sandane – Førde – Lavik … Instefjord – Knarvik – Bergen – Os … Stord – Sveio – Aksdal – Bokn … Rennesøy – Randaberg – Stavanger – Sandnes – Helleland – Flekkefjord – Lyngdal – Mandal – Kristiansand … Hirtshals – Hjørring – Nørresundby – Aalborg
• – 760 km (470 mi): Dortmund – Wetzlar – Aschaffenburg – Würzburg – Stuttgart – Schaffhausen – Winterthur – Zürich – Altdorf
• – 510 km (320 mi): Würzburg – Ulm – Lindau – Bregenz – St. Margrethen – Buchs – Chur – San Bernardino – Bellinzona
• – 290 km (180 mi): Helsingborg … Helsingør – Copenhagen – Køge – Vordingborg – Farø – Rødby … Puttgarden – Oldenburg in Holstein – Lübeck (See also E 06 below.)
• – 740 km (460 mi): Magdeburg – Halle – Plauen – Schönberg – Vojtanov – Cheb - Karlovy Vary – Plzeň – České Budějovice – Halámky – Vienna
• – 410 km (250 mi): Berlin – Leipzig – Gera – Hirschberg – Hof – Bayreuth – Nuremberg
• – 270 km (170 mi): Plzeň – 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 – Karavanke Tunnel – Naklo – Ljubljana – Trieste – Rijeka
• – 1,110 km (690 mi): Sodankylä – Kemijärvi - Posio – Kuusamo – Kajaani – Iisalmi – Kuopio – Jyväskylä – Tampere – Turku
• – 1,630 km (1,010 mi): Helsinki … Tallinn – Riga – Kaunas – Warsaw – Piotrków Trybunalski – Wrocław – Kłodzko – Kudowa-Zdrój – Náchod – Hradec Králové – Prague; also known as the Via Baltica
• – 130 km (81 mi): Nordkapp (North Cape) – Olderfjord
• – 970 km (600 mi): Košice – Miskolc – Budapest – Balatonvilágos – Nagykanizsa – Zagreb – Karlovac – Knin – Split
• – 710 km (440 mi): Budapest – Szekszárd – Mohács – Osijek – Đakovo – Šamac – Zenica – Sarajevo - Mostar – Metković
• – 1,690 km (1,050 mi): Pskov – Riga – Šiauliai – Tolpaki – Kaliningrad … Gdańsk – Elbląg – Warsaw – Radom – Kraków – Trstená – Ružomberok – Zvolen – Budapest
• – 1,160 km (720 mi): Miskolc – Debrecen – Berettyóújfalu – Oradea – Beiuş – Deva – Petroşani – Târgu Jiu – Craiova – Calafat … Vidin – Vraca – Botevgrad – Sofia – Blagoevgrad – Serres – Thessaloniki
• – 990 km (620 mi): Mukachevo – Halmeu – Satu Mare – Zalău – Cluj-Napoca – Turda – Sebeş – Sibiu – Piteşti – 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 – Dereköy – Kırklareli – Babaeski – Havsa – Keşan – Gelibolu – Ayvalık – İzmir – Selçuk – Aydın – Denizli – Acıpayam – Korkuteli – Antalya
• – 130 km (81 mi): Gerede – Kızılcahamam – Ankara
• – 170 km (110 mi): Toprakkale – İskenderun – Antakya – Yayladağı – Syria
• – cancelled, changed to E95
• – 1,150 km (710 mi): Kherson – Dzhankoy – Novorossiysk – Sochi – Sokhumi – Zugdidi - Senaki
• – 750 km (470 mi): Şanlıurfa - Diyarbakır - Bitlis - Doğubeyazit - Iğdir - Dilucu - Sadarak

West-East intermediate

• E 02 – Not used
• – 1,590 km (990 mi): Helsingborg – Jönköping – Linköping – Norrköping – Södertälje – Stockholm – Uppsala – Sundsvall – Örnsköldsvik – Umeå – Luleå – Haparanda – Tornio
• – 1,410 km (880 mi): Tromsø – Nordkjosbotn – Skibotn – Kilpisjärvi – Kolari – Tornio – Kemi – Oulu – Kokkola – Vaasa – Pori – Turku
• – 910 km (570 mi): Mo i Rana – Umeå … Vaasa – Tampere – Hämeenlinna – Helsinki
• – 460 km (290 mi): Trondheim – Östersund – Sundsvall
• – 710 km (440 mi): Derry – Belfast … Glasgow – Edinburgh … Bergen – Arna – Voss - Lærdal – Tyin – Fagernes – Hønefoss (– Sandvika – Oslo) - Gardermoen - Kongsvinger - Torsby - Malung - Borlänge - Falun - Sandviken - Gävle
• – 1,890 km (1,170 mi): Craigavon – Belfast – Larne … Stranraer – Gretna – Carlisle – Newcastle … Kristiansand – Arendal – Porsgrunn – Larvik – Sandefjord – Horten – Drammen – Oslo – Askim – Karlstad – Örebro – Västerås – Stockholm/Kapellskär … 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 – Lübeck – Rostock – Sassnitz … Trelleborg – Malmö – Kalmar – Norrköping … Ventspils – Riga – Rēzekne – 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 – Goleniów – Koszalin – Słupsk - Gdynia - Gdańsk – Kaliningrad – Tolpaki – Nesterov – Marijampolė – 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 – Lübbenau – Cottbus – Legnica
• – Hlukhiv - Kursk - Voronezh - Saratov - Oral - Aktobe - Karabulak - Aral - Novokazalinsk - Kyzylorda - Shymkent
• – 620 km (390 mi): Dunkirk – Lille – Mons – Charleroi – Namur – Liège – St. Vith – Wittlich – Bingen – Wiesbaden – Frankfurt am Main – Aschaffenburg
• – 780 km (480 mi): Le Havre – Amiens – Charleville-Mézières – Luxembourg – Trier – Koblenz – Wetzlar – Gießen
• – 720 km (450 mi): Cherbourg-Octeville – Caen – Rouen – Reims – Charleville-Mézières – Liège
• – 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 – Košice – Uzhhorod – Mukachevo – Halmeu – Suceava – Iaşi – Sculeni – Chişinău – Odessa – Mykolaiv – Kherson – Melitopol – Taganrog – Rostov-on-Don
• – 1,290 km (800 mi): Nantes – Poitiers – Mâcon – 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 – Veszprém – Székesfehérvár
• – 510 km (320 mi): Szeged – Arad – Deva – Sibiu – Braşov
• – 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 – Bragança – Zamora – Tordesillas
• – 150 km (93 mi): Keşan – Tekirdağ – Silivri
• – 200 km (120 mi): Krystallopigi – Florina – Vévi – Géfira
• - 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): İzmir – Usak – Afyonkarahisar – Sivrihisar
• – 60 km (37 mi): Topboğazi – Kırıkhan – Reyhanlı – Cilvegözü → Syria

B Class roads

• – Tbilisi – Marneuli – Sadakhlo - Bagratashen - Vanadzor
• – Alyat - Saatly Rayon - Megri - Ordubad - Julfa - Nakhchivan – Sadarak
• – Uchkuduk – Daşoguz – Ashgabat – Gaudan
• – Kyzylorda – Uchkuduk – Bukhara
• – Guza – Samarkand
• – Ayni – Kokand
• – Tashkent – Kokand – Andijan – Osh – Irkeshtam
• – Dushanbe - Kulob - Kalaikhumb - Khorugh – Murghab - Kulma Pass - border of China (see Pamir Highway)
• – Jirgatal – Khorugh – Ishkoshim – Lyanga – China
• – Osh – Bishkek
• – Kokpek - Kegen – Tyup
• – Almaty - Kokpek - Chundzha - Koktal - Khorgas
• – Sary-Ozek – Koktal
• – Usharal – Druzhba
• – Taskesken – Bakhty
• – Zapadnoe - Zhaksy - Atbasar – Astana
• – Yelabuga – Ufa
• – Jezkazgan – Karaganda - Pavlodar - Uspenovka
• – Petropavl – Zapadnoe
• – Haugesund – Røldal – Haukeli – Seljord – Kongsberg – Drammen
• E 135 – cancelled, formerly Haugesund – Drammen, changed to E 134
• – Ålesund – Tresfjord – Åndalsnes – Dombås
• E 137 – cancelled, formerly Ålesund – Dombås, changed to E 136
• E 140 – cancelled, formerly Sundsvall – Trondheim, changed to E 14
• E 160 – cancelled, formerly Turku – Kuopio, changed to E 63
• – Cork – Portlaoise
• – Amsterdam – Amersfoort
• – Amersfoort – Hoogeveen – Groningen
• – Hoogeveen – Haselünne – Cloppenburg
• – Cuxhaven – Bremerhaven – Bremen – Walsrode
• – Sassnitz – Stralsund – Neubrandenburg – Berlin
• – Świecie – Poznań – Wrocław
• – Kaunas – Ukmergė – Daugavpils – Rēzekne – Ostrov
• – Tallinn – Tartu – Võru – Luhamaa
• – Jõhvi – Tartu – Valga - Valka - Valmiera - Incukalns
• – Tallinn – Keila – Paldiski ... Kapellskär
• – Minsk – Babruysk - Gomel (formerly began Klaipėda – Kaunas – Vilnius)
• – Klaipėda – Palanga – Šiauliai – Panevėžys – Ukmergė – Vilnius
• – Breda – Gorinchem – Utrecht
• – Flushing – Breda – Eindhoven
• – Antwerp – Liège
• – Leuven – Hasselt – Heerlen – Aachen
• – Dortmund – Kassel
• – Radom – Rzeszów – Barwinek – Vyšný Komárnik – Svidník – Prešov
• – Warsaw – Lublin – Lviv
• – Lublin – Kovel – Rivne – Kiev
• – cancelled, formerly Kiev – Hlukhiv – Oryol
• – Trosna – Hlukhiv
• – Saint-Brieuc – Caen
• – Calais – Rouen – Le Mans
• – Zeebrugge – Bruges – Roeselare – Kortrijk – Tournai
• – Jabbeke – Zeebrugge
• – Brussels – Metz
• – Nivelles – Charleroi – Reims
• – Eynatten - Eupen – St. Vith – Luxembourg
• – Trier – Saarbrücken
• – Tournai – Halle
• – Chemnitz – Plauen – Hof (E 51)
• – Karlovy Vary – Teplice – Turnov – Hradec Králové – Olomouc – Žilina
• – Gießen – Frankfurt am Main – Mannheim
• – Svitavy – Brno – Vienna
• – Brno – Olomouc – Český Těšín - Katowice – Kraków
• – Mukachevo – Lviv
• – Le Mans – Angers
• – Le Mans – Tours
• – Courtenay – Troyes
• – Remiremont – Mulhouse
• – Offenburg – Donaueschingen
• – Memmingen – Füssen
• – Munich – Garmisch-Partenkirchen – Mittenwald – Seefeld – Innsbruck
• – České Budějovice – Humpolec
• – Munich – Braunau am Inn – Wels – Linz
• – Bratislava – Zvolen – Košice
• – Trenčín – Žiar nad Hronom
• – Püspökladány – Nyíregyháza – Chop – Uzhhorod
• – Bacău – Braşov – Piteşti – Craiova
• – Bratislava – Dunajská Streda – Medveďov – Vámosszabadi – Győr
• – Cluj-Napoca – Dej (formerly continued Bistriţa – Suceava)
• - Ploieşti - Buzău
• – Sărăţel – Reghin – Topliţa – Gheorgheni – Miercurea-Ciuc – Sfântu Gheorghe – Chichiş
• – Tişiţa – Tecuci – Albiţa – Leuşeni – Chişinău – Odessa
• – Săbăoani – Iaşi – Bălţi – Mohyliv-Podilskyi – Vinnytsia – Zhytomyr
• – Poltava – Kirovohrad – Chişinău – Giurgiuleşti – Galaţi – Slobozia
• – Krasnodar – Dzhubga
• – Niort – La Rochelle
• – La Rochelle – Saintes
• – Saintes – Angoulême – Limoges (formerly to Sculeni)
• – Tours – Vierzon
• – Angoulême – Bordeaux
• – Digoin – Chalon-sur-Saône
• – Lyon – Pont-d'Ain
• E 612 – Ivrea – Turin
• E 641 – Wörgl – St. Johann in Tirol – Lofer – Salzburg
• E 651 – Altenmarkt im Pongau – Liezen
• E 652 – Klagenfurt – Loiblpass – Naklo
• E 653 – Letenye - Tornyiszentmiklós
• E 661 – Balatonkeresztúr – Nagyatád – Barcs – Virovitica – Okučani – Banja Luka – Jajce – Donji Vakuf – Zenica
• E 662 – Subotica – Sombor – Osijek
• – Timişoara – Arad – Oradea – Satu Mare
• E 673 – Lugoj – Ilia
• E 675 – Agigea – Negru Vodă – Kardam
• – Ashtarak - Gyumri – Ashotsk - Akhalkalaki - Akhaltsikhe - Vale, Georgia – Türkgözü - Posof - Kars - Horasan
• – Supsa – Lanchkhuti - Samtredia
• E 711 – Lyon – Grenoble
• E 712 – Geneva – Chambéry – Marseille
• E 713 – Valence – Grenoble
• E 714 – Orange – Marseille
• E 717 – Turin – Savona
• E 751 – Rijeka – Pula – Koper
• E 761 – Bihać – Jajce – Donji Vakuf – Zenica – Sarajevo – Užice – Čačak – Kraljevo – Kruševac – Pojate – Paraćin – Zaječar
• E 762 – Sarajevo – Podgorica → Albania
• – Belgrade – Čačak – Nova Varoš – Bijelo Polje
• E 771 – Drobeta-Turnu Severin – Niš
• E 772 – Yablanitsa – Veliko Tarnovo – Shumen
• – Popovica – Stara Zagora – Burgas
• E 801 – Coimbra – Viseu – Vila Real – Chaves – Verín
• E 802 – Bragança – Guarda – Castelo Branco – Portalegre – Évora – Beja – Ourique
• E 803 – Salamanca – Mérida – Seville
• E 804 – Bilbao – Logroño – Zaragoza
• E 805 – Vila Nova de Famalicão – Chaves
• E 806 – Torres Novas – Abrantes – Castelo Branco – Guarda
• E 821 – Rome – San Cesareo
• E 840 – Sassari – Olbia … Civitavecchia – ends at E 80
• E 841 – Avellino – Salerno
• E 842 – Naples – Avellino – Benevento – Canosa di Puglia
• E 843 – Bari – Taranto
• E 844 – Spezzano Albanese – Sybaris
• E 846 – Cosenza – Crotone
• E 847 – Sicignano degli Alburni – Potenza – Metaponto
• E 848 – Sant'Eufemia Lamezia – Catanzaro
• E 851 – Petrovac → Albania → Prizren – Pristina
• E 852 – Ohrid → Albania
• E 853 – Ioannina → Albania
• – Sofia – Kyustendil – Kumanovo
• – İzmit - Bursa - Balıkesir - Manisa - İzmir - Çeşme
• – Madrid – Valencia
• – Jaén – Granada – Málaga
• - Mérida - Ciudad Real - Albacete - Alicante
• – Mazara del Vallo – Gela
• – Buonfornello – Enna – Catania
• – Alcamo – Trapani
• – Ioannina – Arta – Agrinio – Missolonghi
• – Aktio – Vonitsa – Amfilochia – Karpenisi – Lamia
• – Tripoli – Sparti – Gytheio
• – Eleusina – Thebes
• E962 formerly Tripoli – Sparta – Gytheio

Notable E-roads

• The longest E-road is E 40, which is more than 8,000 km (5,000 mi) long, connecting France with Kazakhstan.
• The shortest E-road is E 844, 22 km (14 mi), in Italy
• Northernmost is E 69, North Cape, Norway, 71°10' N
• Westernmost is E 01, Lisbon, Portugal, 9°10' W
• Southernmost is E 75, Crete, Greece, 35°6' N
• Easternmost is E 127, Maikapshagai, Kazakhstan, 85°36' E
• The highest E-road is E 008 which reaches 4272 m (13562 ft) altitude in the Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan.
• The highest E-road in Europe is E 62 reaching 2005 m (6365 ft) at the Simplon Pass, Switzerland.
• The lowest E-road is E 39 which reaches 262 m (860 ft) below sea level in the Bømlafjord Tunnel, Norway.
• The longest bridge on an E-road is the Øresund Bridge (in Sweden and Denmark) on E 20 which is 7,845 metres (25,738 ft).
• The longest tunnel on an E-road is the Lærdal Tunnel (in Norway) on E 16 which is 24,510 metres (80,410 ft), the longest road tunnel in the world. As of 2015 E 16 includes 60 tunnels, covering about 15% of the road's 630 km (391 mi) within Norway.
• The E 39 includes 8 ferry crossings.
• The E 39 includes 90 tunnels, 6% of the road's 1,140 km (708 mi) within Norway.

See also

• Asian Highway Network
• European long-distance paths
• EuroVelo
• National Road network (Netherlands) a former system devised to complement the E-road network at a national level.
• Pan-European corridors
• Road transport

References

1. "Declaration on the Construction of Main International Traffic Arteries, signed at Geneva" (PDF). United Nations - Treaty Series. 16 September 1950. Retrieved 2010-12-27.
2. "Declaration on the Construction of Main International Traffic Arteries, signed at Geneva" (PDF). United Nations - Treaty Series. 16 September 1950. Retrieved 2012-07-01.
3. "E-Roads". Retrieved 5 September 2012.
4. "European Agreement on Main International Traffic Arteries" (PDF). United Nations Economic and Social Council. 14 March 2008. Retrieved 2010-12-27.
5. "Statutory Instrument 2002 No. 3113: The Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2002". HMSO. Retrieved 2010-12-27.
6. "Council Directive 96/53/EC of 25 July 1996 laying down for certain road vehicles circulating within the Community the maximum authorized dimensions in national and international traffic and the maximum authorized weights in international traffic". Council of the European Community. 25 July 1996. Retrieved 2011-08-07.

External links

• 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.1/384 "Road Transport Infrastructure"; 14 March 2008 (PDF file, official E route list starting at p. 14)
• 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