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Existing (blue), U/C (red) and planned (green) highway-network of Hungary as of 2015

Hungarian road categories are as follows:

  • Gyorsforgalmi út (controlled-access highway):
    • Autópálya (motorway): 2+2 travel lanes and 1+1 emergecy lane, central reservation, no at-grade intersections, speed limit: 130 kilometres per hour (81 mph)
    • Gyorsút (high-speed highway): 2+2 travel lanes, central reservation, few at-grade intersections, speed limit: 110 kilometres per hour (68 mph)
    • Autóút (expressway): 2+2, 2+1 or 1+1 travel lanes, central reservation, some at-grade intersections, speed limit: 110 kilometres per hour (68 mph)
  • Főút (arterial road or main road) (with one digit in their name, e.g.: 6-os út)
  • Megyei út (County road) (with two digits, e.g.: 16-os út)
  • Helyi út (local road) (with three or more digits)

etc.

According to the Állami Autópályakezelő Zrt. ("State Motorway Management Plc."), the total length of the Hungarian motorway system was 1,400.6 kilometers in 2013.[1] The construction of the Hungarian motorway system started in 1964 with M7, which finished in 1975 between Budapest and the Lake Balaton. The total length of the system reached 200 km in 1980, 500 km in 1998 and 1000 km in 2007.

History

Development of the overall length (at the end of):

Year 1964 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1996 2002 2006 2010 2014
Length in km 7 85 136 213 302 361 440 638 967 1,290 1,382

List of Hungarian motorways and high-speed highways

Traffic sign for an autópálya (motorway)
Traffic sign for an autóút (expressway)
Information sign

Expressways (autóutak)

[2]

Correlation with European routes

This is a list of European routes that shows which parts of them run through Hungary.

West-East routes:


431 km 		Austria – Hegyeshalom, Mosonmagyaróvár, Győr, Tatabánya - Budapest bypass - Cegléd, Szolnok, Püspökladány, Nagykereki – Romania

190 km 		Austria – Szentgotthárd, Körmend, Ajka, Veszprém, Székesfehérvár

58 km 		Szeged, Makó, Csanádpalota – Romania

21 km 		Slovenia – Tornyiszentmiklós, Letenye

North-South routes:


255 km 		Slovakia – Rajka - Mosonmagyaróvár - Csorna, Szombathely - Körmend - Zalaegerszeg - Nagykanizsa, Letenye – Croatia

495 km 		Slovakia – Tornyosnémeti, Miskolc - Gyöngyös, Gödöllő - , Budapest bypass - Székesfehérvár, Siófok, Nagykanizsa, Letenye – Croatia

212 km 		Budapest, Érd, Dunaújváros, Szekszárd, Mohács, Ivándárda – Croatia

348 km 		Slovakia – Rajka - Mosonmagyaróvár, Győr, Tatabánya - Budapest bypass - Kecskemét, Kiskunfélegyháza, Szeged, Röszke – Serbia

70 km 		Slovakia – Hont, Vác, Dunakeszi, Budapest

162 km 		Miskolc - Polgár - Debrecen, Berettyóújfalu, Nagykereki – Romania

158 km 		Püspökladány, Debrecen, Nyíregyháza, Záhony – Ukraine

92 km 		Balatonkeresztúr, Marcali, Nagyatád, Barcs – Croatia

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Does not fully comply with formal motorway specifications.
  1. ^ Állami Autópályakezelő Zrt. (ÁAK) (2013). "Az ÁAK által kezelt úthálózat részletes adatai (2013)". Retrieved 2015-05-14.
  2. ^ This list contains the limited-access roads (expressways) in Hungary with (at least) four traffic lanes and median.
General
  • Magyarország autóatlasz (Road atlas of Hungary), Dimap-Szarvas, Budapest, 2004
  • Magyarország autóatlasz (Road atlas of Hungary), Dimap-Szarvas, Budapest, 2013
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