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    Highways provide relatively fast connections between places. Major highways are often named and numbered by the governments that develop and maintain them. The Pan-American Highway is considered the longest at 48,000 miles, stretching from Alaska to Argentina and Chile. Australia's Highway 1 covers 14,500 km around the continent. The United States has the largest highway network including the Interstate Highway System and U.S. Highway System. National Highway 7 in India is the longest at 2,542 km from Kanyakumari to Varanasi.

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    Highways provide relatively fast connections between places. Major highways are often named and numbered by the governments that develop and maintain them. The Pan-American Highway is considered the longest at 48,000 miles, stretching from Alaska to Argentina and Chile. Australia's Highway 1 covers 14,500 km around the continent. The United States has the largest highway network including the Interstate Highway System and U.S. Highway System. National Highway 7 in India is the longest at 2,542 km from Kanyakumari to Varanasi.

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    Highways provide relatively fast connections between places. Major highways are often named and numbered by the governments that develop and maintain them. The Pan-American Highway is considered the longest at 48,000 miles, stretching from Alaska to Argentina and Chile. Australia's Highway 1 covers 14,500 km around the continent. The United States has the largest highway network including the Interstate Highway System and U.S. Highway System. National Highway 7 in India is the longest at 2,542 km from Kanyakumari to Varanasi.

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    Highways provide relatively fast connections between places. Major highways are often named and numbered by the governments that develop and maintain them. The Pan-American Highway is considered the longest at 48,000 miles, stretching from Alaska to Argentina and Chile. Australia's Highway 1 covers 14,500 km around the continent. The United States has the largest highway network including the Interstate Highway System and U.S. Highway System. National Highway 7 in India is the longest at 2,542 km from Kanyakumari to Varanasi.

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    EXPRESS HIGHWAYS

    Highway usually refers to a long road, giving a relatively fast connection between two places.

    Any interconnected set of highways can be variously referred to as a "highway system", a "highway network. Each country has its own national highway system. Major highways are often named and numbered by the governments that typically develop and maintain them. The Pan-American Highway is considered the longest highway in the world. It stretches from Alaska to Argentina and Chile and covers 48,000 miles. Some parts are barely passable during wet season, as it crosses multiple different countries and climates.

    Australia's Highway 1 covers 14,500 km (9,000 miles) and runs almost the entire way around the continent. The United States has the world's largest network of highways, including both the Interstate Highway System and the U.S. Highway System National highway no 7 is the longest highway of INDIA . It travels from Kanyakumari to Varanasi having total length of 2542.097 KM.

    The state has the power to control and regulate the use of public highways, provided its regulations do not constitute an unreasonable interference with the right of travel. The state may determine the character of motor vehicles that use its highways and may properly exclude vehicles weighing in excess. A reasonable tax may be imposed on vehicles based on their excess weight in order to compensate the state for the additional costs of maintaining the highway as a result of the severe wear and tear placed on the road by such vehicles.

    To protect the public health, the state may prohibit trucks that transport chemicals or explosives from driving through populated or residential areas. The secretary of transportation regulates the safety performance of all commercial motor carriers transporting explosives or dangerous articles, such as flammable or radioactive materials, in interstate or foreign commerce. The state may restrict the speed of vehicles, or proscribe parking alongside the highway except in emergencies. Bicycles used on highways may be subject to reasonable restrictions, such as the requirement that they be equipped with lights at night.

    ADVANTAGES
    Reducing travel times relative to city or town streets, modern highways with limited access and grade separation create increased opportunities for people to travel for business, trade or pleasure. Also they provide trade routes for goods. Modern highways reduce commute and other travel time by additional road capacity. Positive externalities of transport networks may also include the ability to provide emergency services.

    High-occupancy vehicle lanes are being added to some newer/reconstructed highways in North America and other countries around the world to encourage carpooling and mass-transit. These lanes help in reducing traffic congestion by promoting the use of carpooling . However, they tend to require dedicated lanes on a highway, which makes them difficult to construct in dense urban areas where they are the most effective.

    DISADVANTAGES
    Negative externalities are wide-ranging and may include local air pollution, noise pollution, light pollution, safety hazards.etc. Roadway noise increases with operating speed so major highways generate more noise than arterial streets. Therefore, considerable noise health effects are expected from highway systems. New highways can also cause habitat fragmentation, encourage urban sprawl and allow human intrusion into previously untouched areas, as well as increasing congestion, by increasing the number of intersections.

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    Pan american highway

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