Highways in Hungary
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)
- Elsődrendő főút (primary arterial road or primary main road) (with one digit in their name, e.g.: 6-os főút)
- Másodrendű főút (secondary main road) (with two or three digits, e.g.: 57-es főút)
- 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 | 2016 |
Length in km | 7 | 85 | 136 | 213 | 302 | 361 | 440 | 638 | 967 | 1,290 | 1,382 | 1,480 |
List of Hungarian motorways and high-speed highways
M0 → (2x3 lane expressway) Budapest körgyűrű
- ring road around Budapest
- Total length: 108 km – Existing: 79 km (73.13 %)
M1 → (2x2 lane motorway)
- Budapest - Bicske - Tatabánya - Tata - Győr - Mosonmagyaróvár - Hegyeshalom (Austrian border)
- Total length: 171 km – Existing: 171 km (100.00 %)
M10
- Budapest - Pilisvörösvár - Kesztölc (Slovak border)
- Total length: ~34 km – Existing: 0 km (00.00 %)
M15 [nb 1] → / (2x1 lane semi-highway)
M19 / (2x1 lane semi-highway)
- Győrszentiván (M1) - Győr
- Total length: 10 km – Existing: 10 km (100.00 %)
M2 [nb 1] → / (2x2 lane expressway)
M25
- Füzesabony (M3) - Eger
- Total length: 12.6 km – Existing: 2.6 km (20.26 %)
M3 → (2x2 lane motorway)
- Budapest - Gödöllő - Gyöngyös - Füzesabony - Mezőkövesd - Tiszaújváros - Polgár - Nyíregyháza - Vásárosnamény - Beregdaróc (Ukrainan border)
- Total length: 307 km – Existing: 280 km (91.21 %)
- M30 →
- M31 →
- Nagytarcsa (M0) - Gödöllő (M3)
- Total length: 12 km – Existing: 12 km (100.00 %)
- M34
- Vásárosnamény (M3) - Záhony (Ukrainan border)
- Total length: ~38 km – Existing: 0 km (00.00 %)
- M35 →
- Görbeháza (M3) - Hajdúböszörmény - Debrecen - Berettyóújfalu (M4)
- Total length: 68.8 km – Existing: 44 km (63.95 %)
- M4 [nb 1] →
- Budapest - Üllő - Cegléd - Szolnok - Törökszentmiklós - Karcag - Püspökladány - Berettyóújfalu - Nagykereki (Romanian border)
- Total length: 233 km – Existing: 29 km (12.45 %)
- M43 →
- Szeged (M5) - Algyő - Makó - Csanádpalota (Romanian border)
- Total length: 57.7 km – Existing: 57.7 km (100.00 %)
- M44
- Kecskemét (M8) - Szarvas - Békéscsaba - Gyula (Romanian border)
- Total length: ~138 km – Existing: 26 km (18.84 %)
- M49
- Kántorjánosi (M3) - Csenger (Romanian border)
- Total length: 48 km – Existing: 0 km (00.00 %)
- M5 →
- M51
- Budapest (M5) - Dunaharaszti (M0)
- Total length: 12 km – Existing: 12 km (100.00 %)
- M6 →
- M60
- M7 →
- Budapest - Érd - Székesfehérvár - BALATON - Nagykanizsa - Letenye (Croatian border)
- Total length: 233 km – Existing: 233 km (100.00 %)
- M70 →
- Letenye (M7) - Tornyiszentmiklós (Slovenian border)
- Total length: 21 km – Existing: 21 km (100.00 %)
- M8 →
- Szolnok (M4) - Kecskemét - Dunaújváros - BALATON - Veszprém - Ajka - Körmend - Szentgotthárd (Austrian border)
- Total length: 330.2 km – Existing: 34.8 km (10.54 %)
- M85
- M86 →
- Szombathely - Csorna - Mosonmagyaróvár (M1)
- Total length: 115 km – Existing: 71 km (62 %)
- M87
- Szombathely (M86) - Kőszeg (Austrian border)
- Total length: 20 km – Existing: 0 km (00.00 %)
- M9
- Szombathely (M86) - Zalaegerszeg - Nagykanizsa - Kaposvár - Dombóvár - Szekszárd - Szeged (M5)
- Total length: ~300 km – Existing: 20.6 km (6.87 %)
Expressways (autóutak)
- Road 3 between M3 and Gyöngyös (7 km)
- Several parts of Road 4 between Budapest and Püspökladány
- Road 5 between M5 and Kecskemét (8 km)
- Road 6 between Szekszárd and Tolna (4 km)
- Several parts of Road 8 between Veszprém and Székesfehérvár
- Road 11 between Budapest and Szentendre (4 km and 9 km within the city limit of Budapest)
- Several parts of Road 21 between Hatvan and Salgótarján
- Road 26 between Miskolc and Sajóbábony (10 km)
- Road 44 between Békéscsaba and Gyula (11 km)
- Road 47 between Szeged and Hódmezővásárhely (24 km)
- Road 84 between Sopron and the border with Austria (4 km)
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 |
– Hegyeshalom, Mosonmagyaróvár, Győr, Tatabánya - Budapest bypass - Cegléd, Szolnok, Püspökladány, Nagykereki – |
190 km |
– Szentgotthárd, Körmend, Ajka, Veszprém, Székesfehérvár |
58 km |
Szeged, Makó, Csanádpalota – |
21 km |
– Tornyiszentmiklós, Letenye |
North-South routes:
255 km |
– Rajka - Mosonmagyaróvár - Csorna, Szombathely - Körmend - Zalaegerszeg - Nagykanizsa, Letenye – |
495 km |
– Tornyosnémeti, Miskolc - Gyöngyös, Gödöllő - , Budapest bypass - Székesfehérvár, Siófok, Nagykanizsa, Letenye – |
212 km |
Budapest, Érd, Dunaújváros, Szekszárd, Mohács, Ivándárda – |
348 km |
– Rajka - Mosonmagyaróvár, Győr, Tatabánya - Budapest bypass - Kecskemét, Kiskunfélegyháza, Szeged, Röszke – |
70 km |
– Hont, Vác, Dunakeszi, Budapest |
162 km |
Miskolc - Polgár - Debrecen, Berettyóújfalu, Nagykereki – |
158 km |
Püspökladány, Debrecen, Nyíregyháza, Záhony – |
92 km |
Balatonkeresztúr, Marcali, Nagyatád, Barcs – |
See also
References
- ↑ Állami Autópályakezelő Zrt. (ÁAK) (2013). "Az ÁAK által kezelt úthálózat részletes adatai (2013)". Retrieved 2015-05-14.
- ↑ 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
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Motorways in Hungary. |
- National Toll Payment Services Plc (in Hungarian, some information also in English)
- Home page of the National Toll Payment Services Plc.
- Detailed map of the Hungarian motorway system (2015)