page_title: International E-road network
section_title: Signage
hierarchical_section_title: International E-road network / Signage
caption_attribution_description: English: route confirmation signage at junction 10 M8 (Better Exposure)
context_page_description: The international E-road network is a numbering system for roads in Europe developed by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. The network is numbered from E1 up and its roads cross national borders. It also reaches Central Asian countries like Kyrgyzstan, since they are members of the UNECE.
  European main international traffic arteries are defined by ECE/TRANS/SC.1/2016/3/Rev.1 which consider three types of roads: motorways, express roads, and ordinary roads.
  In most countries, the roads carry the European route designation alongside national designations. Belgium, Norway and Sweden have roads which only have the European route designations. The United Kingdom only uses national road designations and does not show the European designations at all. Denmark only uses the European designations on signage, but also has formal names for every motorway, by which the motorways are referred to, for instance in news and weather forecasts.
  Other continents have similar international road networks, e.g., the Pan-American Highway in the Americas, the Trans-African Highway network, and the Asian Highway Network.
context_section_description: Where the European routes are signed, green signs with white numbers are used.
  There are different strategies for determining how frequently to signpost the roads.
  Sweden, Norway and Denmark have integrated the E-road numbers into their networks, meaning that the roads usually have no other national number.
  In Belgium, E-numbers are traditionally associated with highways, even though other grade E-roads pass through the country. As a result, the E-number is signposted (and referred to) only on the highway portions of the E-road network, while for non-motorways only the national number (if any) is shown. On the highway portions of the E-network, the E-numbers are the standard and thus referred to in news bulletins rather than the national number. Serbia and Italy have a similar principle.
  In most of the countries the E-roads form a network on top of the national network. The green signs are frequent enough to show how to follow the roads, but do not usually show how to reach them.
  In some countries, like Croatia and Bulgaria E-roads are well signposted, but they sometimes follow the old state routes instead of highways. State highways are signposted best.
  In some countries, like Germany, Italy and Greece, E-roads are signposted only on motorways and main road itineraries.
  In Ireland the signposting of E-roads is specified in Chapter 2 of the 2010 Traffic Signs Manual published by the Department of Transport, and specifies that E-roads are to be signed on route confirmation signs only. The first E-road numbers were signed in July 2007 on the N11 bypass in Gorey. Since then they have gradually spread across the E-road network in Ireland.
  In a few countries, such as the United Kingdom and Uzbekistan, the E-roads are not signposted at all.
caption: The E201 in the Republic of Ireland.
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