Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - TRANSPORTATION, DEPARTMENT OF › Title 428 - BOARD OF PUBLIC ROADS CLASSIFICATIONS AND STANDARDS › Chapter 1 - Procedures for Classifications › Section 428-1-002 - SPECIFIC CRITERIA FOR THE FUNCTIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF MUNICIPAL STREETS

Current through June 17, 2024
Municipal streets shall consist of all public streets within the limits
	 of any incorporated municipality. It is recommended the municipalities be
	 divided into three population groups to facilitate the comparison process which
	 inevitably must take place between cities and villages of similar sizes. These
	 streets shall be divided into six functional classifications groups. Each
	 incorporated municipality with a population over five thousand shall
	 approximate the guideline mileage percentages established in Table 2.
002.01 POPULATION GROUP I - OVER FIFTY
  THOUSAND (URBANIZED AREAS)
002.01A INTERSTATE
  - shall consist of the federally-designated National System of Interstate and
  Defense Highways.
002.01B
  EXPRESSWAY - which shall consist of two categories: Extension of rural
  expressways within some urban areas and some additional routes which serve very
  high volumes of local traffic.
SPECIFIC CRITERIA
1. Provide
  connecting link for rural expressways which intercept the incorporated
  municipalities.
2. Provide routes
  for major traffic generators within the city.
3. Expressway system one in which ultimately
  should be developed to multi-lane divided highway standards.
4. Provide an integrated network without stub
  connections.
002.01C
  MAJOR ARTERIAL - shall consist of extensions of rural major arterials which
  provide continuous service through municipalities for long distance rural
  travel. They are the arterial streets used to transport products into and out
  of municipalities.
SPECIFIC CRITERIA
1.
  Connecting link for rural major arterials.
2. Serve the major activity centers of the
  urban area not served by the higher systems.
3. Serve the highest traffic volume corridors
  not served by the higher systems.
4. Service to abutting land should not be a
  primary functional responsibility of this class of street.
5. Serve the longest trip desires not served
  by the higher systems.
6. Should
  (in conjunction with the higher systems) carry a high proportion of the total
  urban area travel on a minimum of mileage.
7. System should be integrated both
  internally and between major rural connections.
8. Spacing (in conjunction with the higher
  systems) may vary from less than one mile in Central Business District to five
  miles in urban fringe.
002.01D OTHER ARTERIAL - which shall consist
  of two categories: municipal extensions of rural other arterials, and arterial
  movements peculiar to a municipality's own complex, that is streets which
  interconnect major areas of activity within a municipality, such as shopping
  centers, the Central Business District, manufacturing centers, and industrial
  parks.
SPECIFIC CRITERIA
1. Provide
  connecting link for rural other arterials.
2. Intra-community connections of areas of
  activities in municipalities not connected by a higher order system, such as
  shopping centers, central business district, manufacturing and industrial
  areas.
3. Interconnect with and
  augment the urban major arterial system. This need not form an integrated
  system in all cases.
4. Spacing may
  vary from one-eighth to one-half mile in the Central Business District to two
  to three miles in the suburban fringe, but should normally be not more than one
  mile in fully developed areas.
002.01E COLLECTOR - shall consist of a group
  of streets which collect traffic from residential streets and move it to
  smaller commercial centers or to higher arterial systems.
SPECIFIC CRITERIA
1. Collect
  traffic from local streets in neighborhood and channels it to the arterial
  system.
2. Provide land access
  service within residential neighborhoods, commercial areas and industrial
  areas.
3. Spacing should be at
  intervals consistent with population density.
002.01F LOCAL - shall consist of the balance
  of streets in each municipality, principally residential access service streets
  and local business streets. They are characterized by very short trip lengths,
  almost exclusively limited to vehicles desiring to go to or from adjacent
  property.