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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: E18 and E6).
E-roads in the United Kingdom are not recognised and are therefore not signposted at all, while Ireland has started to place E-route numbers on recent road schemes (2007).
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.
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History
UNECE was formed in 1947, and their first major act to improve transportation was a joint UN declaration no. 1264, the Declaration on the Construction of Main International Traffic Arteries[1], signed in Geneva on September 16, 1950, which defined the first E-road network. This declaration was amended several times before November 15, 1975, when it was replaced by the European Agreement on Main International Traffic Arteries or "AGR"[2], 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, but there were several minor revisions since, last in 2008 (as of 2009).
Numbering system
The route numbering system is currently as follows:
- Reference roads and intermediate roads, called Class-A roads, have two-digit numbers. Branch, link and connecting roads, called Class-B roads, have three-digit numbers.
- In general:
- North-south reference roads have two-digit numbers terminating in the figure 5 and increasing from west to east.
- East-west reference roads have two-digit numbers terminating in the figure 0 and increasing from north to south.
- Intermediate roads have two-digit odd (north-south) or two-digit even (west-east) numbers between the numbers of the reference roads between which they are located.
- Class-B roads have three-digit numbers, the first digit being that of the nearest reference road to the north, the second digit being that of the nearest reference road to the west, and the third digit being 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 mentioned in paragraph 2 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 are 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 Albania refused to participate in international treaties such as the AGR for a long time (see History of Communist Albania), it was conspicuously excluded from the route scheme, with E65 and E90 making noticable 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.
Notes to the listings
In the road listings below, a hyphen ('–') indicates a land road connection between two towns/cities—the normal case—while an ellipsis (three dots, '…') denotes a stretch across water. There are not ferry connections at all these places. Usually the international ferry connections are operated by commercial companies without support or contracts with any government to operate them. This means existing lines can be cancelled.
Class A roads
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North-South reference
E 05 – 2960 km (1850 miles): Greenock – Glasgow – Preston – Birmingham – Southampton … Le Havre – Paris – Orléans – Bordeaux – San Sebastián – Burgos - Madrid – Sevilla – Algeciras
E 15 - 3590 km (2244 miles): 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
E 25 - 1830 km (1144 miles): Hoek van Holland – Rotterdam – Eindhoven – Maastricht – Liège – Bastogne – Arlon – Luxembourg – Metz – Saint-Avold – Strasbourg – Mulhouse – Basel – Olten – Berne – Lausanne – Geneva – Mont Blanc – Aosta – Ivrea – Vercelli – Alessandria – Genova … Bastia – Porto Vecchio – Bonifacio … Porto Torres – Sassari – Cagliari … Palermo
E 35 – 1660 km (1038 miles): Amsterdam – Utrecht – Arnhem – Emmerich – Oberhausen – Cologne – Frankfurt am Main – Heidelberg – Karlsruhe – Offenburg – Basel – Olten – Lucerne – Altdorf – San Gottardo – Bellinzona – Lugano – Chiasso – Como – Milan – Piacenza – Parma – Modena – Florence – Rome
E 45 - 4920 km (3075 miles): Karesuando - Arvidsjaur - Östersund - Mora - Säffle - Gothenburg … Frederikshavn – Aalborg – Århus – Vejle – Kolding – Frøslev – 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 – Cosenza – Villa San Giovanni … Messina – Catania – Siracusa – Gela
E 55 - 2920 km (1825 miles): Helsingborg … Helsingør – Copenhagen – Køge – Vordingborg – Farø – Nykøbing Falster – Gedser … Rostock – Berlin – Lübbenau – Dresden – Teplice – Prague – Tábor – Linz – Salzburg – Villach – Tarvisio – Udine – Palmanova – Mestre – Ravenna – Cesena – Rimini – Fano – Ancona – Pescara – Canosa – Bari – Brindisi … Igoumenitsa – Preveza – Rhion – Patrai – Pyrgos – Kalamáta (See also E 4 below.)
E 65 - 3800 km (2375 miles): 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 – Kicevo – Ohrid - Bitola – Niki – Vevi – Kozani – Larissa – Domokos – Lamia – Brallos – Itea – Antirrion … Rhion – Egion – Korinthos – Tripoli – Kalamata … Kissamos – Chaniá
E 75 - 4340 km (2713 miles): Vardø – Vadsø – Varangerbotn – Utsjoki – Inari – Ivalo – Sodankylä – Rovaniemi – Kemi – Oulu – Jyväskylä – Heinola – Lahti – Helsinki … Gdańsk – Świecie – Łódź – Piotrków Trybunalski – Katowice – Žilina – Bratislava – Győr – Budapest – Szeged – Subotica - Novi Sad - Belgrade – Niš – Kumanovo – Skopje – Veles - Gevgelija – Evzoni - Thessaloniki – Katerini - Larissa – Lamia – Athens … Chaniá – Iraklion – Agios Nikolaos – Sitía
E 85 - 2300 km (1438 miles): Klaipėda – Kaunas – Vilnius – Lida – Slonim – Kobrin – Dubno — Ternopil' — Chernivtsi —Siret – Suceava – Roman – Urziceni – Bucharest – Giurgiu – Rousse – Byala – Veliko Tarnovo – Stara Zagora – Haskovo – Svilengrad – Ormenio – Kastanies – Didymoteicho – Alexandroupolis
E 95 - 1790 km (1119 miles): Saint Petersburg – Pskov – Gomel – Kiev – Odessa … Samsun – Merzifon
E 101 - 850 km (531 miles): Moscow – Kaluga – Bryansk – Glukhov – Kiev
E 105 - 3770 km (2356 miles): Kirkenes – Murmansk – Petrozavodsk – Saint Petersburg – Moscow – Orel – Kharkiv – Simferopol – Alushta – Yalta
E 115 - 1730 km (1081 miles): Yaroslavl – Moscow – Voronezh – Novorossiysk
E 117 - 1050 km (656 miles): Mineralnye Vody – Nalchik – Vladikavkaz – Tbilisi – Yerevan – Goris – Megri
E 119 - 2630 km (1644 miles): Moscow – Tambov – Povorino – Volgograd – Astrakhan – Makhachkala – Kuba – Baku – Alyat – Astara
E 121 - 2700 km (1688 miles): Samara – Uralsk – Atyrau – Beineu – Shetpe – Zhetybai – Fetisovo – Bekdash – Turkmenbashi – Gyzylarbat – Border of the Islamic Republic of Iran
E 123 - 2840 km (1775 miles): Chelyabinsk – Kostanai – Esil – Derzhavinsk – Arkalyk – Zhezkazgan – Kyzylorda – Shymkent – Tashkent – Ayni – Dushanbe – Nizhniy Panj
E 125 - 2600 km (1625 miles): Ishim – Astana – Karagandy – Balkhash – Burubaytal – Almaty – Bishkek – Naryn – Torugart
E 127 - 1330 km (831 miles): Omsk – Pavlodar – Semey – Georgiyevka – Maikapshagai
West-East reference
E 10 - 880 km (550 miles): Å – Svolvær … Melbu – Sortland – Lødingen – Evenes – Narvik – Kiruna – Töre – Luleå
E 20 - 1880 km (1175 miles): Shannon – Limerick – Dublin … Liverpool – Manchester – Leeds – Kingston upon Hull … Esbjerg – Copenhagen – Malmö – Helsingborg – Halmstad – Gothenburg – Örebro – Stockholm … Tallinn – Narva – Saint Petersburg
E 30 - 6050 km (3781 miles): Cork – Waterford – Wexford – Rosslare … Fishguard – Swansea – Bridgend - Cardiff – Newport – Bristol – London – Colchester – Ipswich – Felixstowe … Hoek van 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
E 40 - 8500 km (5313 miles): Calais – Bruges – Ghent – Brussels – Leuven - Liège – Aachen – Cologne – Olpe – Wetzlar – Gießen - Bad Hersfeld - Eisenach – Erfurt – Gera – Chemnitz – Dresden – Görlitz – Legnica – Wrocław – Opole – Gliwice – Zabrze - Katowice - Kraków – Przemyśl – Lviv – Rivne – Zhytomyr – Kiev – Kharkiv – Luhansk – Volgograd – Astrakhan – Atyrau – Beineu – Kungrad – Nukus – Daşoguz – Buchara – Navoi – Samarkand – Jizzakh – Tashkent – Shymkent – Zhambyl – Bishkek – Almaty – Sary-Ozek – Taldykorgan – Ucharal – Taskesken – Ayaguz – Georgiyevska – Öskemen – Ridder
E 50 - 5100 km (3188 miles): Brest – Rennes – Le Mans – Paris – Reims – Metz – Saarbrücken – Mannheim – Heilbronn – Nuremberg – Rozvadov – Plzeň – Prague – Jihlava – Brno – Trenčín – Prešov – Košice – Vyšné Nemecké – Uzhhorod – Mukacheve – Stryj – Ternopil – Khmelnytskyi – Vinnytsia – Uman – Kirovohrad – Dnipropetrovsk – Donetsk – Rostov-na-Donu – Armavir – Mineralnye Vody – Makhachkala...also known as "Via Caroli"
E 60 - 6200 km (3875 miles): Brest – Lorient – Vannes – Nantes – Angers – Tours – Orléans – Montargis – Auxerre – Beaune – Dole – Besançon – Belfort – Mulhouse – Basel – Zürich – Winterthur – St. Gallen – St. Margrethen – Bregenz – Feldkirch – Landeck – Telfs – Innsbruck – Lauterach – Feldkirch – Imst – 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 – Samtredia – Khashuri – Tbilisi – Ganca – Evlak – Baku … Turkmenbashi – Gyzylarbat – Ashgabat – Tedjen – Mary – Chardzhu – Alat – Buchara – Karshi – Guzai – Sherobod – Termis – Dushanbe – Jirgatal – Sary Tash – Irkeshtam
E 70 - 4550 km (2813 miles): A Coruña – Bilbao – San Sebastián – Bordeaux – Clermont-Ferrand – Lyon – Chambéry – Susa – Turin – Alessandria – Tortona – Brescia – Verona – Mestre – Palmanova – Trieste – Postojna – Ljubljana – Zagreb – Slavonski Brod – Belgrade – Vršac – Timişoara – Drobeta-Turnu Severin – Craiova – Alexandria – Bucharest – Giurgiu – Rousse – Razgrad – Shumen – Varna … Samsun – Ordu – Giresun – Trabzon – Batumi – Poti
E 80 - 5600 km (3500 miles): Lisbon – Valladolid – Burgos - San Sebastián – Toulouse – Nice – Genoa – Rome – Pescara … Dubrovnik – Podgorica - Pristina – Niš - Sofia – Plovdiv - Istanbul – İzmit – Gerede – Amasya – Erzurum – Gürbulak – Iran
E 90 – 4770 km (2981 miles): Lisbon – Madrid – Barcelona … Mazara del Vallo – Palermo – Buonfornello – Messina … Reggio di Calabria – Metaponto – Taranto – Brindisi … Igoumenitsa – Ioannina - Kozani – Thessaloniki – Alexandroupolis – Gelibolu … Lapseki – Bursa – Ankara – Adana – Nusaybin – Habur – Iraq
North-South intermediate
E 01 - 1460 km (913 miles): Larne – Belfast – Dublin – Rosslare … A Coruña – Pontevedra – Valença – Oporto - Lisbon - Albufeira - Castro Marim – Huelva – Seville
E 03 - 470 km (294 miles): Cherbourg-Octeville – La Rochelle
E 06 – 3120 km (1950 miles): 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)
E 07 – 250 km (156 miles): Pau – Jaca – Zaragoza
E 09 – 967 km (601 miles): Orléans – Toulouse – Barcelona
E 11 – 540 km (338 miles): Vierzon – Montluçon – Clermont-Ferrand – Montpellier
E 13 – 230 km (144 miles): Doncaster – Sheffield – Nottingham – Leicester – Northampton – London
E 17 – 670 km (419 miles): Antwerpen – Beaune
E 19 – 520 km (325 miles): Amsterdam – Brussels – Paris
E 21 – 540 km (338 miles): Metz – Geneva
E 23 – 390 km (244 miles): Metz – Lausanne
E 27 – 350 km (219 miles): Belfort – Berne – Martigny – Aosta
E 29 – 290 km (181 miles): Cologne – Sarreguemines – E 25 (towards Strasbourg)
E 31 – 520 km (325 miles) - Rotterdam – Ludwigshafen
E 33 – 100 km (62.5 miles): Parma – La Spezia
E 37 – 290 km (181 miles): Bremen – Cologne
E 39 – 1330 km (831 miles): Trondheim – Orkanger – Vinjeøra – Halsa – Straumsnes – Krifast – 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 – Ålborg
E 41 – 760 km (475 miles): Dortmund – Wetzlar – Aschaffenburg – Würzburg – Stuttgart – Schaffhausen – Winterthur – Zürich – Altdorf
E 43 – 510 km (319 miles): Würzburg – Ulm – Lindau – Bregenz – St. Margrethen – Buchs – Chur – San Bernardino – Bellinzona
E 47 – 290 km (181 miles): Helsingborg … Helsingør – Copenhagen – Køge – Vordingborg – Farø – Rødby … Puttgarden – Oldenburg – Lübeck (See also E 06 below.)
E 49 – 740 km (463 miles): Magdeburg – Halle – Plauen – Schönberg – Vojtanov – Cheb - Karlovy Vary – Plzeň – České Budějovice – Halámky – Vienna
E 51 – 410 km (256 miles): Berlin – Leipzig – Gera – Hirschberg – Hof – Bayreuth – Nuremberg
E 53 – 270 km (169 miles): Plzeň – Bayerisch Eisenstein – Deggendorf – Munich
E 57 – 380 km (238 miles): Sattledt – Liezen – St. Michael – Graz – Maribor – Ljubljana
E 59 – 660 km (413 miles): Prague – Jihlava – Vienna – Graz – Spielfeld – Maribor – Zagreb
E 61 – 240 km (150 miles): Villach – Karavanke Tunnel – Naklo – Ljubljana – Trieste – Rijeka
E 63 – 1110 km (694 miles): Sodankylä – Kemijärvi - Posio – Kuusamo – Kajaani – Iisalmi – Kuopio – Jyväskylä – Tampere – Turku
E 67 – 1630 km (1019 miles): Helsinki … Tallinn – Riga – Kaunas – Warsaw – Piotrków Trybunalski – Wrocław – Kłodzko – Kudowa Zdrój – Náchod – Hradec Králové – Prague; also known as the Via Baltica
E 69 – 130 km (81 miles): Nordkapp (North Cape) – Olderfjord
E 71 – 970 km (606 miles): Košice – Miskolc – Budapest – Balatonaliga – Nagykanizsa – Zagreb – Karlovac – Knin – Split
E 73 – 710 km (444 miles): Budapest – Szekszárd – Mohács – Osijek – Đakovo – Šamac – Zenica – Mostar – Metković
E 77 – 1690 km (1056 miles): Pskov – Riga – Šiauliai – Tolpaki – Kaliningrad … Gdańsk – Elbląg – Warsaw – Radom – Kraków – Trstená – Ružomberok – Zvolen – Budapest
E 79 – 1160 km (725 miles): Miskolc – Debrecen – Berettyóújfalu – Oradea – Beiuş – Deva – Petroşani – Târgu Jiu – Craiova – Calafat … Vidin – Vraca – Botevgrad – Sofia – Blagoevgrad – Serres – Thessaloniki
E 81 – 990 km (619 miles): Mukacevo – Halmeu – Satu Mare – Zalău – Cluj-Napoca – Turda – Sebeş – Sibiu – Piteşti – Bucharest - Constanţa
E 83 – 250 km (156 miles): Byala – Pleven – Jablanica – Botevgrad – Sofia
E 87 – 2030 km (1269 miles): Odessa – Izmail – Reni – Galaţi – Tulcea – Constanţa – Varna – Burgas – Malko Tarnovo – Dereköy – Kırklareli – Babaeski – Havsa – Keşan – Gelibolu – Ayvalık – İzmir – Selçuk – Aydın – Denizli – Acıpayam – Korkuteli – Antalya
E 89 – 130 km (81 miles): Gerede – Kızılcahamam – Ankara
E 91 – 170 km (106 miles): Toprakkale – İskenderun – Antakya – Yayladağ – Syrian Arab Republic
E 97 – 1150 km (719 miles): Kherson – Djankoy – Novorossiysk – Sochi – Sukhumi – Poti - (missing link) - Trabzon - Gümüshane - Askale
E 99 – Sanliurfa - Diyarbakir - Bitlis - Doğubeyazit - Iğdir - Dilucu - Sadarak
West-East intermediate
- E 02 – route number not used
E 04 – 1590 km (994 miles): Helsingborg – Jönköping – Linköping – Norrköping – Södertälje – Stockholm – Uppsala – Sundsvall – Örnsköldsvik – Umeå – Luleå – Haparanda – Tornio
E 08 – 1410 km (881 miles): Tromsø – Nordkjosbotn – Skibotn – Kilpisjärvi – Kolari – Tornio – Kemi – Oulu – Kokkola – Vaasa – Pori – Turku
E 12 – 910 km (569 miles): Mo i Rana – Umeå … Vaasa – Tampere – Hämeenlinna – Helsinki
E 14 – 460 km (288 miles): Trondheim – Östersund – Sundsvall
E 16 – 710 km (444 miles): Derry – Belfast … Glasgow – Edinburgh … Bergen – Arna – Voss … Lærdal – Tyin – Fagernes – Hønefoss – Sandvika – Oslo
E 18 – 1890 km (1181 miles): 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
E 22 - 5320 km (3325 miles): Holyhead – Chester – Warrington – Manchester – Leeds – Doncaster – Immingham … Amsterdam – Groningen – Bremen – Hamburg – Lübeck – Rostock – Sassnitz … Trelleborg – Malmö – Kalmar – Norrköping … Ventspils – Riga – Rezekne – Velikie Luki – Moscow – Vladimir – Nizhny Novgorod - Kazan - Yelabuga - Perm - (Asia) - Yekaterinburg - Tyumen - Ishim
E 24 – 230 km (144 miles): Birmingham – Cambridge – Ipswich
E 26 – 280 km (175 miles): Hamburg – Berlin
E 28 – 1230 km (769 miles): Berlin – Szczecin – Goleniów – Koszalin – Słupsk - Gdynia - Gdańsk – Kaliningrad – Tolpaki – Nesterov – Marijampolė – Vilnius – Minsk
E 32 – 30 km (18.75 miles): Colchester – Harwich
E 34 – 470 km (294 miles): Zeebrugge – Antwerp – Eindhoven – Venlo – Oberhausen – Dortmund – Bad Oeynhausen
E 36 – 220 km (138 miles): Berlin – Lübbenau – Cottbus – Legnica
E 38 – Glukhov - Kursk - Voronezh - Saratov - Uralsk - Aktobe - Karabutak - Aralsk - Novokazalinsk - Kyzylorda - Shymkent
E 42 – 620 km (388 miles): Dunkerque – Lille – Mons – Charleroi – Namur – Liège – Sankt-Vith – Wittlich – Bingen – Wiesbaden – Frankfurt am Main – Aschaffenburg
E 44 – 780 km (488 miles): Le Havre – Amiens – Charleville-Mezières – Luxembourg – Trier – Koblenz – Wetzlar – Gießen
E 46 – 720 km (450 miles): Cherbourg-Octeville – Caen – Rouen – Reims – Charleville-Mezières – Liège
E 48 – 350 km (219 miles): Schweinfurt – Bayreuth – Marktredwitz – Cheb – Karlovy Vary – Prague
E 52 – 520 km (325 miles): Strasbourg – Appenweier – Karlsruhe – Stuttgart – Ulm – Munich – Salzburg
E 54 – 860 km (537.5 miles): Paris – Chaumont – Mulhouse – Basel – Waldshut – Lindau – Munich
E 56 – 310 km (194 miles): Nuremberg – Regensburg – Passau – Wels – Sattledt
E 58 – 2200 km (1375 miles): Vienna – Bratislava – Zvolen – Košice – Uzhgorod – Mukacheve – Halmeu – Suceava – Iaşi – Sculeni – Chişinău – Odessa – Mykolayiv – Kherson – Melitopol – Taganrog – Rostov-na-Donu
E 62 – 1290 km (806 miles): Nantes – Poitiers – Mâcon – Geneva – Lausanne – Martigny – Sion – Simplon – Gravellona Toce – Milan – Tortona – Genoa
E 64 – 240 km (150 miles): Turin – Milan – Brescia
E 66 – 650 km (406 miles): Fortezza – San Candido – Spittal an der Drau – Villach – Klagenfurt – Graz – Veszprém – Székesfehérvár
E 68 – 510 km (319 miles): Szeged – Arad – Deva – Sibiu – Braşov
E 72 – 250 km (156 miles): Bordeaux – Toulouse
E 74 – 240 km (150 miles): Nice – Cuneo – Asti – Alessandria
E 76 – 80 km (50 miles): Pisa - Migliarino – Florence
E 78 – 270 km (169 miles): Grosseto – Arezzo – Sansepolcro – Fano
E 82 – 380 km (237.5 miles): Porto – Vila Real – Bragança – Zamora – Tordesillas
E 84 – 150 km (94 miles): Keşan – Tekirdağ – Silivri
E 86 – 200 km (125 miles): Kristalopigi – Flórina – Vévi – Géfira
E 88 - 640 km (400 miles): Ankara – Yozgat – Sivas – Refahiye
E 92 – 320 km (200 miles)): Igoumenítsa – Ioánnina – Trikala – Larissa - Vólos
E 94 – 110 km (66 miles): Corinth – Megara – Attiki Odos (Elefsina - Athens Suburbs - Markopoulo Mesogeas).
E 96 – 440 km (275 miles): İzmir – Usak – Afyon – Sivrihisar
E 98 – 60 km (37.5 miles): Topboğazi – Kirikhan – Reyhanli – Cilvegözü → Syria
Class B roads
- E 134 – Haugesund – Røldal – Haukeli – Seljord – Kongsberg – Drammen
- E 136 – Ålesund – Tresfjord – Åndalsnes – Dombås
- E 201 – Cork – Portlaoise
- E 231 – Amsterdam – Amersfoort
- E 232 – Amersfoort – Hoogeveen – Groningen
- E 233 – Hoogeveen – Haselünne – Cloppenburg
- E 234 – Cuxhaven – Bremerhaven – Bremen – Walsrode
- E 251 – Sassnitz – Stralsund – Neubrandenburg – Berlin
- E 261 – Świecie – Poznań – Wrocław
- E 262 – Kaunas – Ukmerge – Daugavpils – Rezekne – Ostrov
- E 263 – Tallinn – Tartu – Võru – Luhamaa
- E 264 – Jõhvi – Tartu – Valga - Valka - Valmiera - Incukalns
- E 271 – Minsk – Babruysk - Homel (formerly began Klaipėda – Kaunas – Vilnius)
- E 272 – Klaipėda – Palanga – Šiauliai – Panevėžys – Ukmerge – Vilnius
- E 311 – Breda – Gorinchem – Utrecht
- E 312 – Vlissingen – Breda – Eindhoven
- E 313 – Antwerp – Liège
- E 314 – Leuven – Hasselt – Heerlen – Aachen
- E 331 – Dortmund – Kassel
- E 371 – Radom – Rzeszów – Barwinek – Vyšný Komárnik – Svidnik – Prešov
- E 372 – Warsaw – Lublin – Lviv
- E 373 – Lublin – Kovel – Rivne – Kiev
- E381 – cancelled
- E 391 – Trosna – Glukhkov
- E 401 – Saint-Brieuc – Caen
- E 402 – Calais – Rouen – Le Mans
- E 403 – Zeebrugge – Bruges – Roeselare – Kortrijk – Tournai
- E 404 – Jabbeke – Zeebrugge
- E 411 – Brussels – Metz
- E 420 – Nivelles – Charleroi – Reims
- E 421 – Aachen – Sankt-Vith – Luxembourg
- E 422 – Trier – Saarbrücken
- E 429 – Tournai – Halle
- E 441 – Chemnitz – Plauen – Hof (E 51)
- E 442 – Karlovy Vary – Teplice – Turnov – Hradec Králové – Olomouc – Žilina
- E 451 – Gießen – Frankfurt am Main – Mannheim
- E 461 – Svitavy – Brno – Vienna
- E 462 – Brno – Olomouc – Český Těšín - Katowice – Kraków
- E 471 – Mukacheve – Lviv
- E 501 – Le Mans – Angers
- E 502 – Le Mans – Tours
- E 511 – Courtenay – Troyes
- E 512 – Remiremont – Mulhouse
- E 531 – Offenburg – Donaueschingen
- E 532 – Memmingen – Füssen
- E 533 – Munich – Garmisch-Partenkirchen – Mittenwald – Seefeld in Tirol – Innsbruck
- E 551 – České Budějovice – Humpolec
- E 552 – Munich – Braunau am Inn – Wels – Linz
- E 571 – Bratislava – Zvolen – Košice
- E 572 – Trenčín – Žiar nad Hronom
- E 573 – Püspökladány – Nyíregyháza – Chop – Uzhhorod
- E 574 – Bacău – Braşov – Piteşti – Craiova
- E 575 – Bratislava – Dunajská Streda – Medved'ov – Vámosszabadi – Győr
- E 576 – Cluj-Napoca – Dej (formerly continued Bistriţa – Suceava)
- E 577 - Ploieşti - Buzău
- E 578 – Sărăţel – Reghin – Topliţa – Gheorgheni – Miercurea Ciuc – Sfântu Gheorghe – Chichiş
- E 581 – Tişiţa – Tecuci – Albiţa – Leuşeni – Chişinău – Odessa
- E 583 – Săbăoani – Iaşi – Bălţi – Mohyliv-Podilskyi – Vinnytsia – Zhitomir
- E 584 – Poltava – Kirovohrad – Chişinău – Giurgiuleşti – Galaţi – Slobozia
- E 592 – Krasnodar – Djoubga
- E 601 – Niort – La Rochelle
- E 602 – La Rochelle – Saintes
- E 603 – Saintes – Angoulême – Limoges (formerly to Sculeni)
- E 604 – Tours – Vierzon
- E 606 – Angoulême – Bordeaux
- E 607 – Digoin – Chalon-sur-Saône
- E 611 – Lyon – Pont-d'Ain
- E 612 – Ivrea – Turin
- E 641 – Wörgl – Sankt Johann in Tirol – Lofer – Salzburg
- E 651 – Altenmarkt im Pongau – Liezen
- E 652 – Klagenfurt – Loibl Pass – Naklo
- E 653 – Letenye - Torniyiszentmiklós
- E 661 – Balatonkeresztúr – Nagyatád – Barcs – Virovitica – Okučani – Banja Luka – Jajce – Donji Vakuf – Zenica
- E 662 – Subotica – Sombor – Osijek
- E 671 –
Timişoara – Arad – Oradea – Satu Mare - E 673 – Lugoj – Ilia
- E 675 – Agigea – Negru Vodă – Kardam
- E 691 – Ashtarak - Gumri – Ashotsk - Vale – Türkgözü - Posof - Kars - Horasan
- E 692 – Batumi – 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
- E 763 – Belgrade – Čačak – Nova Varos – Bijelo Polje
- E 771 – Drobeta-Turnu Severin – Niš
- E 772 – Jablanica – Veliko Tarnovo – Shumen
- E 773 – 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 – Sevilla
- E 804 – Bilbao – Logroño – Zaragoza
- E 805 – 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 – Sibari
- 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 – Ioánnina → Albania
- E 871 – Sofia – Kjustendil – Kumanovo
- E 881 – Izmit - Bursa - Balikesir - Manisa - Izmir - Cesme
- E 901 – Madrid – Valencia
- E 902 – Jaén – Granada – Málaga
- E 902 formerly Nicosia – Paphos
- E 903 (no longer exists) – Girne (Kyrenia) – Nicosia – Limassol
- E 931 – Mazara del Vallo – Gela
- E 932 – Buonfornello – Enna – Catania
- E 933 – Alcamo – Trapani
- E 951 – Ioánnina – Árta – Agrinio – Mesolóngi
- E 952 – Aktio – Vónitsa – Amfilochia – Karpenisi – Lamia
- E 961 – Tripoli – Sparti – Githio
- E 962 – Elefsina – Thiva
- E 962 formerly Tripoli – Sparta – Gytheion
- E 001 – Tbilisi – Bagratashe – Vanatzor
- E 002 – Alyat - Saatli - Mehgri - Ordubad - Djulfa - Nakhchivan – Sadarak
- E 003 – Uchkuduk – Daşoguz – Ashgabat – Gaudan
- E 004 – Kzylorda – Uchkuduk – Buchara
- E 005 – Guza – Samarkand
- E 006 – Ayni – Kokand
- E 007 – Tashkent – Kokand – Andijan – Osh – Irkeshtam
- E 008 – Dushanbe - Kulab - Kalaikhumb - Khorog – Murghab - Kulma - border of China (see Pamir Highway)
- E 009 – Jirgatal – Khorog – Ishkashim – Lyanga – China
- E 010 – Osh – Bishkek
- E 011 – Kokpek - Kegen – Tyup
- E 012 – Almaty - Kokpek - Chundzha - Koktal - Khorgos
- E 013 – Sary-Ozek – Koktal
- E 014 – Usharal – Druzhba
- E 015 – Taskesken – Bakhty
- E 016 – Zapadnoe - Zhaksy - Atbasar – Astana
- E 017 – Yelabuga – Ufa
- E 018 – Zhezkazgan – Karagandy - Pavlodar - Uspenka
- E 019 – Petropavl – Zapadnoe
Signage
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The European routes are signposted with the green number sign at right.
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 associated with motorways: for those, only the E-number is signposted, 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 poorly signposted, making it difficult to follow them. Drivers have to use the national network.
- In Ireland, they also are poorly signposted. In July 2007, the N11 bypass in Gorey, Republic of Ireland, opened with very small E 01 markers added to route confirmation signs, the first road with E-road markers in Ireland. Since then, new sections of the M8 motorway have opened with larger E 201 markers. A resigning of the M1 Motorway took place in July 2008 - here too, E 01 markers have been included. A new version of the Traffic Signs Manual 1996 may confirm this new policy but has yet to be published.
- In a few countries, such as the United Kingdom and Uzbekistan, the E-roads are not signposted at all.
Standard
In the E-road convention (from 1975) there are standard requirements indicated. The roads have to be paved, at least 8.4 m (28 ft) wide, not have overly sharp bends (suitable for at least 80 km/h, exceptionally 60 km/h), be priority roads, bypass cities and villages and other requirements. They shall have enough capacity to avoid congestion, and preferably have highway or expressway status.
In reality these requirements have not been followed stringently when new E-roads have been added. For example the E 45 in Sweden, added in 2006, has long parts with 6 m (20 ft) width or the E 22 forcing drivers to slow down to 30 km/h by taking the route through villages. The E 10 in Norway has parts with 5 m (16 ft) width and in Central Asia some gravel roads have even been included.
Notable E-roads
- The longest E-road is E 40, which is more than 8000 km (5000 miles) long, connecting France with Kazakhstan.
- The shortest E-roads are E 844, 22 km (13.75 miles), in Italy and E 32, 30 km (18.75 miles), in the United Kingdom.
- 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 (832 ft) below sea level in the Bømlafjordtunnel, Norway.
References
See also
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External links
- EU Transport Networks home page
- Introduction to EU European routes, with links
- UNECE document ECE/TRANS/SC.1/384 "Road Transport Infrastructure"; 14 March 2008 (PDF file, official E route list starting at p.14)
- Routes in Benelux as well as E routes in Europe
- Trans-Global Highway and the Eur-Africa Friendship Tunnel
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