From Tokyo to Istanbul, they drove a total of before joining the European motorway network for another to London.

Barcelona is the transport hub with one of Europe's principal ports, Barcelona international airport, which handles above 34 million passengers per year, extensive motorway network and also is a hub of high-speed rail, particularly that which is intended to link Spain with France and the rest of Europe as the second longest in the world.

The motorway network now covers 1, 111 km while the railway network totals 2, 667 km of operational track.

The road network in 2008 totalled 73, 197 km of paved road, including 1, 111 km of motorway.

The motorway network totals with additional reserved only for motor traffic.

The French motorway network or autoroute system consists largely of toll roads, except around large cities and in parts of the north.

New motorway sections are being added to the existing network, that already connects many major economically important cities to the Capital City.

It comprises both an extensive motorway network ( 6, 400 km ), mostly toll roads, and national and local roads.

It is one of the busiest and most congested parts of the British motorway network: 196, 000 vehicles were recorded in a single day near London Heathrow Airport.

The Netherlands has a motorway density of 57. 5 kilometers per 1, 000 km², the most dense motorway network in the European Union.

The population has grown by 1. 5 million since, creating significant pressure on the motorway network.

The Netherlands has one of the most advanced motorway networks in the world, with Variable Message Signs and electronic signalization across most of the network.

The Dutch motorway network is one of the densest in the world, but many motorways are lacking sufficient capacity, and many bottlenecks of 4-lane motorways are present throughout the Netherlands.

Map of planned motorway and expressway network in Poland.

By the end of 2012, 8 of the 10 largest Polish cities ( Gdańsk, Poznań, Wrocław, Łódź, Warsaw, Kraków, Katowice, Szczecin ) will have a motorway connecting them with the motorway network of Europe.

The region has the longest motorway network amongst the Italian regions ( about 800 km ).

As of July 2012, 500 km are already in use. The construction of an extensive motorway network was among top priorities for previous government.

The existing Slovenian rails, which were mostly built in the 19th century, are out-of-date and can't compete with the motorway network.

The Swiss motorway network has a total length of 1, 638 km ( as of 2000 ) and has also-with an area of 41, 290 km²-one of the highest motorway densities in the world.

The Thai motorway network is small.

Bel Geddes expounds upon his design in his book Magic Motorways, stating, “ Futurama is a large-scale model representing almost every type of terrain in America and illustrating how a motorway system may be laid down over the entire country – across mountains, over rivers and lakes, through cities and past towns – never deviating from a direct course and always adhering to the four basic principles of highway design: safety, comfort, speed and economy .” He had acknowledged this in the belief that “ A free-flowing movement of people and goods across our nation is a requirement of modern living and prosperity .”

A full motorway network across Britain is also set to be developed over the coming decade and into the 1970s.

Housing and industrial estates have been built on some of the area that was Heston Aerodrome, and the M4 motorway with its large service area ( Heston services ) cuts across the former aerodrome site east-west, but a substantial area to the north of the M4 is host to the Airlinks 18-hole golf course.

There have been plans for a connection to the A12 motorway to the north ( to facilitate for a better connection from the western parts of Houten ) since 2002, but since this road needs to be built across land of the neighbouring municipality Bunnik, these plans are blocked by NIMBY lobby groups.

This corridor effectively divides the former municipality in two sections, called Farum East and Farum West, which are only connected by bridges across the motorway.

* Second Severn Crossing, a motorway bridge across the River Severn from England to Wales

Turning south west again, it runs across the south of Basingstoke, before reaching Junction 8, where lane 1 becomes the A303 road and the motorway continues as a dual two lane road through open countryside and Micheldever Wood until it reaches the north of Winchester.

Major employers include Siemens, which moved its UK headquarters to the area in 2007, Burlington Group who moved into Watchmoor Park in 2009 and, until 2010, Sun Microsystems, whose UK headquarters was located just across the Hampshire border in Minley next to the M3 motorway at junction 4a, before the takeoverby Oracle and subsequent move to Thames Valley Park in Reading.

This plan had developed from early schemes prior to the Second World War through Patrick Abercrombie's County of London Plan, 1943 and Greater London Plan, 1944 to a 1960s Greater London Council ( GLC ) scheme that would have involved the construction of many miles of motorway standard roads across the city and demolition on a massive scale. Due to the huge construction costs and widespread public opposition, most of the scheme was cancelled in 1973 and the Westway, the West Cross Route and East Cross Route in east London were the only significant parts to be built.

The government also started several projects for social housing, restarted the construction of the motorway connecting Bucharest to Romania's main port, Constanţa, and began the construction of a motorway across the western region of Transylvania.

They required either the construction of both a motorway and railway across Saltholm or an expansion of the existing island to serve the same purpose.

Maghull is separated from the rest of the Greater Liverpool sprawl from a green belt which runs across the Switch Island motorway junction.

In 1967, at the time of the first public inquiry there were discussions regarding an extension of the motorway across the Peak District National Park It was to provide a second motorway link across the Pennines to the south of the planned M62 and avoid the Snake and Woodhead passes, which are often closed in snowy weather.

In the south the road's importance has been eclipsed by ( 1 ) the A90 across the Forth Road Bridge and the M90 motorway, which now link Edinburgh more directly with Perth, bypassing Stirling and Bridge of Allan as formerly important bridge points, and ( 2 ) the M9, which is now the main road between Edinburgh and Bridge of Allan.

The road starts at its junction with the M25 motorway and A20 road just east of Swanley, then continues south east across the River Darent, north of Farningham through the North Downs, past West Kingsdown and Wrotham to meet the M26.

Between 2006 and 2007 junction 10 near Ashford was remodelled to increase capacity when the bridges across the motorway was modified to provide three lanes of traffic at the roundabout, and local approach roads were widened, with new traffic lights to control traffic flows at the junction between the A292 Hythe Road and the London-bound M20 entry slip road.

A new footbridge was also constructed across the motorway.

The M23 plan was gradually scaled back further to omit the section across Mitcham Common and end the motorway at an unsuitable location on Croydon Road ( A232 ) before the plan was postponed indefinitely.

With 56. 8 km of motorway per 1, 000 km < sup > 2 </ sup >, Luxembourg probably now has the highest density of motorways in Europe.

The motorway system has been incorporated with the Øresund Bridge ; the European route E20 goes over the bridge and then, together with the European route E6 follows the Swedish west coast from Malmö – Helsingborg to Gothenburg.

Originally built mainly as a dual three-lane motorway, much of the motorway has subsequently been widened to dual four-lanes in places and to a dual five-lane section between junctions 12 and 14 and a dual six-lane between junctions 14 and 15.

Current motorway expansion mostly occurs outside the Randstad, and very little construction has taken place inside the Randstad since the 1980s.

Nevertheless, it has been gaining momentum with the completion of the motorway cross.

Slovenia has a very high motorway density compared to the European Union average.

The opening of the Drogheda bypass has led to the development of two large retail parks adjacent to the motorway, either side of the Boyne cable bridge.

At the heart of Scotland's Central Belt, Stirling has direct road connections to the major cities of Glasgow, via the M80 motorway, and Edinburgh, via the M9 motorway, as well as inter-city rail links from Stirling Railway Station.

Numerous infrastructure connecting adjacent junction as directional Torano it branches in the A25 to Pescara, Teramo to Giulianova on SS80, SS81 to Chieti and on the A14 Bologna-Taranto, exit on the freeway Rieti Valley Jump-Terni, exit west on SS80 to L ' Aquila Teramo, near Tivoli and the connection to the A1 motorway allows easy connections with Naples and Milan, the highway construction has contributed greatly to the economic development of the region.

Italy has been the first European country to apply the use of motorway tolls on a 50 km motorway section near Milan in 1924.

The UK Highways Agency has a publicly-owned CCTV network of over 1, 200 cameras covering the English motorway and trunk road network.

The name " Parkway " has since been applied to other out-of-town stations of a park and ride nature despite its presumed original reference to the Bristol Parkway, the nearby M32 motorway running through parkland.