Arterials

Arterials are major through roads that are expected to carry large volumes of traffic. Arterials are
often divided into major and minor arterials, and rural and urban arterials.
In some places there are large divided roads with few or no driveways that cannot be called
freeways because they have occasional at-grade intersections with traffic lights that stop traffic
(expressways in California, dual carriageways in Britain) or they are just too short (superarterials
in Nevada). Such roads are usually classified as arterials.
Frontage roads are often used to reduce the conflict between the high-speed nature of an arterial
and property access concerns.