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The existing Slovenian rails, which were mostly built in the 19th century, are out-of-date and can't compete with the motorway network.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

A motorway network across Thailand has been gradually implemented, with motorways completed in Bangkok and most of central Thailand.

The Thai motorway network is small.

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.

Since 1991, only 100 kilometers of motorway have been constructed in the entire country, of which only 26 km lie within the Randstad metropolitan area.

In the 20th century, road tolls have been introduced in Europe for financing the construction of motorway networks and specific road infrastructure such as bridges and tunnels.

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.

The New Markham Vale Loop Road has been completed and opens up the former Markham coal field areas to development, linking the town to a new junction ( 29A ) on the M1 motorway, this junction opened in early July 2008.

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.

In 1960, the A4 motorway was built and since 1966 it has been the municipal boundary between Leiden and Zoeterwoude.

This road has been superseded as a long distance route by the M4 motorway which here runs parallel three miles to the north.

Of the canal north of Preston, only the section from Preston to Tewitfield near Carnforth in Lancashire is currently open to navigation for, with the canal north of Tewitfield having been severed in three places by the construction of the M6 motorway, and by the A590 road near Kendal.

As a result, much is now buried under the M61 motorway, and in the Clayton-le-Woods area housing estates have been built on the route in the 1990s.

Suchet is vice-president of the Lichfield and Hatherton Canals Trust, whose most challenging achievement to date has been securing funding ( both via an appeal and from influencing government decisions ) concerning the building of the new M6 Toll motorway where it cuts the lines of the Lichfield Canal and the Hatherton Canal, both of which the Trust wishes to see reopened.

The original line of the Stroudwater Navigation between Stonehouse and Saul Junction on the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal has been divided by both the construction of the M5 motorway and development of the A38 trunk road.

In 1966 it had been intended that the motorway would follow a different route out of London, starting at Dalston and heading north-east to Walthamstow then north past Chingford and Waltham Cross to meet the current alignment north of Harlow and the proposed section of the motorway from South Woodford to Islington would have been the designated as the M12.

There had been plans for a service station on the motorway as long ago as 1969, at Chigwell, but after years of speculation these plans were abandoned in 1980.

The main runway at Duxford had been shortened in 1977 from to when the motorway was built.