road bridges

Highway crossing constructions

Road bridges are bridges designed to carry vehicular traffic, as distinguished from railway bridges, footbridges, or aqueducts.

The term appears mainly in engineering and planning contexts where specifying the type of bridge matters: The county maintains 47 road bridges across the district.

Related
  • overpassBridge spanning a road
  • flyoverElevated road crossing
  • trussLoad-bearing beam arrangement
  • spanDistance between endpoints
  • archCurved spanning structure

viaduct · river crossing · crossing · support · deck · culvert · beam · steel girders · cantilever · girders · load bearing · lifeline · connections · superstructure · abutment · linkage · steel · construction zone

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crossing method

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Underground hollow pathways

underwater tunnels · ferries · underpasses · car ferries · fords

transport mode infrastructure

road bridgesrailway bridges

Structures supporting train tracks over gaps

rail bridges · pedestrian bridges · footbridges · aqueducts · canal locks

permanence and fixedness

road bridgesferries

Regular water transport vessels

ferry crossings · pontoon bridges · floating bridges · fords · ice roads

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G