Red Vial Francia

General information

Area 551 000 sq.km (metropolitan France)
Population 59 million inhabitants
Car ownership (beg.99)....
  • Private cars
  • Goods vehicles
blanc
  • 26 800 000
  • 5 500 000
Households with
private cars(1996)
78,8 % of households possess at least one
vehicle and 28,1 % possess more than one
Gross domestic
product (GDP)
8 821 billion francs (1999)
State budget 1 686 billion francs (1999)
Administrative organization
  • 21 Metropolitan Regions
  • 3 Territorial Authorities
  • 100 Counties
  • 36 500 Communes
  • 60 Communes with more
    than 100 000 inhabitants
  • The State, Counties, Communes
    and Territorial Authorities, unlike
    the Regions, each have their own
    road assets.

Road network lengths and traffic

  Kilometres Vehicles per day
MOTORWAYS 9300 30294 (*)
NATIONAL HIGHWAYS 27223 10117 (**)
COUNTY ROADS 358500 1300
LOCAL ROADS 586000 150
(*) Calculated on the basis of 8 763 km of the motorway network
(**) Calculated on the basis of 24 000 km of the road network

Consistency of the national road network

National roads (01-01-99)
Metropolitan France

Road types

Lengths (in km)

% of overall length

2-lane roads
3-lane roads
4-lane roads
Dual carriageways, 2-lanes or more

18 820,5
2 830,2
621,8
4950,5
69,1
10,4
2,3
18,2

Total

27 223 100 %

Overseas departments: 1 534 km

 Motorway network
(1 January 1999)

Road types

Lengths (in km)

% of overall length

Rural motorways
*under concession (toll)
* not under concession (toll-free)

.
7 048
2 297,6 (*)
.
75,4
24,6

Total

9 345,6 100 %

Rural motorways scheduled for opening in 1999
* under concession
** not under concession

.
.
143 (**)
132
.
.

52
48

Total

275 100 %

(*) provisional figure
(**) Source: CESI

Traffic trends on the national work

Journeys Annual Average
1990 / 1985
Annual Average
1995 / 1990
Annual Average
1998 / 1995
on toll motorways
on freeways
Subtotal for motorways
on national highways
Total for toll-free network
+ 10,5 %
+ 5,5 %
+ 8,5 %
+ 3,5 %
+ 4,0 %
+ 5,0 %
+ 4,8 %
+ 4,9 %
+ 1,4 %
+ 2,3 %
+ 3,3 %
+ 5,1 %
+ 4,0%
+ 2,3 %
+ 3,1 %
Total for national network + 5,6 % + 3,1 % + 3,2 %