Department of Rural Roads

Department of Rural Roads (DORR), กรมทางหลวงชนบท, Krom Thang Luang Chonnabot is a department of the Thai government, under the Ministry of Transport. It maintains rural roads, under a different numbering scheme from national roads, which are managed by the Department of Highways (DOH), กรมทางหลวง, Krom Thang Luang).

Definition

The 1992 Highway Act (Thai: พระราชบัญญัติทางหลวง พ.ศ. 2535), revised as the 2006 Highway Act (Thai: พระราชบัญญัติทางหลวง (ฉบับที่ 2) พ.ศ. 2549), defines five highway types.[1]

A rural highway (Thai: ทางหลวงชนบท) or rural road is a highway which the Department of Rural Roads constructs and maintains. Registration of rural highways is overseen by the director general of the DRR.

Road numbering

Rural road signs are gold-on-blue, with a two-letter provincial designation prefixed to the road number. Depicted is YS4011, a rural road in Yasothon Province. The rural road network measures some 35,000 km, about 82% of which is paved.[2]

DORR milestone shows the kilometre number, and the sides may show distances to the nearest two villages.

References

  1. ↑ DOH website, ประเภททางหลวง, retrieved on November 13, 2008 Archived January 23, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ↑ "Transport in Thailand". The World Bank. Retrieved 27 September 2015.

See also


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