A limited-access road, known by various terms worldwide, including limited-access highway, dual-carriageway, expressway, and partial controlled-access highway, is a highway or arterial road for high-speed traffic which has many or most characteristics of a controlled-access highway, including limited or no access to adjacent property, some degree of separation of opposing traffic flow, use of grade separated interchanges to some extent, prohibition of slow modes of transport, such as bicycles, horse-drawn vehicles or ridden horses, or self-propelled agricultural machines; and very few or no intersecting cross-streets or level crossings. The degree of isolation from local traffic allowed varies between countries and regions. The precise definition of these terms varies by jurisdiction.
The Veterans Memorial Parkway in London, Ontario is a modern at-grade expressway, with intersections
The Dunedin Northern Motorway, a typical non-freeway-type motorway in New Zealand
G50 Huyu Expressway crossing over the Si Du River Bridge in Enshi Prefecture, Hubei, China.
The Mumbai-Pune Expressway as seen from Khandala
A highway is any public or private road or other public way on land. It is used for major roads, but also includes other public roads and public tracks. In the United States, it is used as an equivalent term to controlled-access highway, or a translation for Autobahn, autostrada, autoroute, etc.
A typical Interstate Highway in Chicago, Illinois, United States
The Tampere Highway in Vantaa, Finland
The I-75/I-85 Downtown Connector in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States
Part of the AVUS road in Berlin, the first automobile-only road, which served as an inspiration for Piero Puricelli's 1924 autostrada between Milan and the northern Italian lakes, the first motorway in the world.