European E-Road Network

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Introduction

This site gives a detailed overview of all European E-roads. Each E-road can be accessed via the List of E-Roads.
Reactions are welcome. The Reaction Form can be used for this. The remaining of this page has some further explanatory notes.

UNECE

The European road network is the responsibility of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). This is stated in the European Agreement on Main International Traffic Arteries (AGR), done at Geneva on 15 November 1975. At the UNECE website (www.unece.org) one can find more information.

The UNECE provides the list of E-roads consisting of reference places. These reference places are important cities, border towns or places where roads connect. A reference place is not necessarily situated directly at the actual E-road. The UNECE data have been enriched on this site by country codes, latitude/longitude, distance and cumulative distance between reference places, and connections to other E-roads.

Sources:
1975 version of the Agreement:
TRANS-SC1-2001-03e.pdf

Major consolidated version 2002:
TRANS-SC1-AC5-2002-03e.pdf

Changes implemented afterwards:
TRANS-SC1-369e.pdf
TRANS-SC1-371e.pdf
TRANS-SC1-373e.pdf

Road types

The list of all E-road numbers is divided into different types. The types are described below.
  1. 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.
  2. North-south orientated reference roads have two-digit odd numbers terminating in the figure 5 and increasing from west to east. East-west orientated reference roads have two-digit even numbers terminating in the figure 0 and increasing from north to south. Intermediate roads have respectively two-digit odd and two-digit even numbers comprised within 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 of the B-road concerned, and the second digit being that of the nearest reference road to the west of the B-road concerned; the third digit is a serial number.
  3. North-south oriented class-A roads located eastward from road E 99 have three-digit odd numbers from 101 to 129. Other rules mentioned in paragraph 2 above apply to these roads.
  4. Branch, link and connecting roads located eastwards of E 101 have 3-digit numbers, beginning with 0, from 001 to 099.

Explanation of the used structure

E53

North-south intermediate road

[Every table has its E-road number and the road type as a header.]

Country City Lat/Long Km (section) Km (cuml.) Connection
CZPlzeň49° 45' N 13° 25' E00E50, E49
...     

[The countries are indicated by a country code. The list of codes can be found below. The names of the original places have been changed in some cases. These changes concern extensions (e.g. Altenmarkt im Pongau instead of Altenmarkt, Sanli Urfa instead of S. Urfa) and spelling changes in case of inconsistencies (e.g. Massalongi and Messolongi). Furthermore the latitude/longitude of every place name is given.]

Country City Lat/Long Km (section) Km (cuml.) Connection
FStrasbourg48° 35' N 07° 45' E00E25
DAppenweier48° 32' N 07° 59' E1818 
DKarlsruhe49° 03' N 08° 24' E6583E35
...     

[In the example the section Strasbourg - Appenweier is 18 km. The section Appenweier - Karlsruhe is 65 km. The cumulative distance (Strasbourg - Karlsruhe) is 83 km. The distance figure is the place-to-place distance based on the latitude/longitude. The cumulative distance is the sum of all section distances. The place-to-place distance is an estimate rather than the real section distance of the actual road. This inaccuracy will be substantially greater for the cumulative distance.]

Country City Lat/Long Km (section) Km (cuml.) Connection
...     
DMünchen48° 08' N 11° 35' E121342E54, E45, E53, E533, E552
...     

[The connection field indicates connections to other E-roads. These are not necessarily direct connections. It only implies that the place is a reference for all mentioned roads.]

Country City Lat/Long Km (section) Km (cuml.) Connection
...     
GBDover51° 08' N 01° 19' E11845 
F» Calais50° 57' N 01° 52' E43889E40, E402
...     

[The »-sign denotes that Dover - Calais is a water crossing. A water crossing is not necessarily a ferry or a sea crossing. Furthermore the section can run partially over land, e.g. Rodby-Lübeck. The distance of a water crossing is calculated as a normal section.]

Country City Lat/Long Km (section) Km (cuml.) Connection
...     
TRGürbulak39° 25' N 44° 21' E1155082 
 Border of Iran39° 20' N 44° 30' E165098 

[Some references are non-member state borders. Normally this is an end point. Only the E851 is a road traversing Albania.]

Country codes

Code Country
A Austria
ARM Armenia
AZ Azerbaijan
B Belgium
BG Bulgaria
BIH Bosnia-Herzegovina
BY Belarus
CH Switzerland
CZ Czech Republic
D Germany
DK Denmark
E Spain
EST Estonia
F France
FIN Finland
GB United Kingdom
GE Georgia
GR Greece
H Hungary
HR Croatia
I Italy
IRL Ireland
KS Kyrgyzstan
KZ Kazakhstan
L Luxembourg
LT Lithuania
LV Latvia
MD Moldova
MK Macedonia
N Norway
NL Netherlands
P Portugal
PL Poland
RO Romania
RUS Russia
S Sweden
SCG Serbia-Montenegro
SK Slovakia
SLO Slovenia
TJ Tajikistan
TMN Turkmenistan
TR Turkey
UA Ukraine
UZ Uzbekistan