The international E-road network is a network of roads in Europe, numbered E01 and up. They cross national borders and are the responsibility of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). In some countries like Germany, roads carry the European route designation beside national road numbers. Other countries like Sweden have roads with exclusive European route signage. Other continents have similar international road networks: e.g. the Pan-American Highway in the Americas, and the Asian Highway Network.
Two Class-A roads, namely E47 and E55, have been given their pre-1992 numbers, E6 and E4 respectively, within Sweden and Norway. These exceptions were granted because the expenses connected with re-signing these extremely long road portions would be too large. Since Sweden and Norway integrated the E-roads into their national networks, there are a lot of signs showing how to reach them, not just how to follow them as in most other countries. These roads maintain their new numbers from Denmark and southward, though, as are other European routes within Scandinavia. This has violated the logical numbering principle of the network, but on the other hand the reason to have the network is to support international traffic, not to "beautify" the logics in the system.
Further exceptions are E67, going from Estonia to Poland (wrong side of E75 and E77), assigned around year 2000, simply because it was best available number for this new route, most of E63 in Finland (wrong side of E75) E8 in Finland (partly on the wrong side of E12 after a lengthening around 2002) and E82 (Spain and Portugal, wrong side of E80).
The European routes are signposted with the green number sign at right.
There are different strategies for determining how frequently to signpost the roads.
International E-road network | Lists of roads | Transport in Europe
Европейски път | Evropská silnice | Europastraße | Carreteras europeas | Route européenne | Europese weg | Europaveg | Trasa europejska | Europaväg | Европейский автомобильный маршрут
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