Classes and categories of public roads in Poland

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In Poland, public roads are classified into two kinds of road hierarchies: road classes (according to technical and functional parameters) and road categories (according to the function in the road network).

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Classes

The March 2, 1999 Decree of the Ministry of Transport and Maritime Economy (now Ministry of Infrastructure) on technical conditions and operational requirements for public roads, [1] introduced the following road classes and their hierarchy, starting from the road type with the highest parameters:

Categories

The classification of roads into categories according to their functions was introduced by the March 21, 1985 act "On Public Roads" of Sejm [2] The allowable road classes for particular categories were specified in the March 2, 1999 Decree. [1]

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