[Talk-us] [Talk-us-newyork] Highway classification guidelines for New York State

[Eric Patrick]

I’m caught up, I’ve just been extremely busy in the last 48 hours. I’ll
post more of my thoughts & replies later today, or tomorrow (my off day).
I’m not ignoring if anyone has thought that. I have a few good replies to
Kevin and someone else.

On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 11:04 Zeke Farwell <ezekielf at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 12, 2021 at 7:52 PM Eric Patrick <txemt1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  Functional classification isn't going for looks, though, it's going for
>> function. The states have spent a lot of time and effort since FC was first
>> introduced about a decade ago.
>>
>
> Functional classification isn't going for looks, but the OSM highway=*
> classification is.  To control information density, one map may display
> only trunk and motorway roads, another may display only primary and higher,
> and yet another may display only tertiary and higher.  Ideally all three
> should be a sensible and coherent highway network map even though they are
> omitting lower classes or roads.  This is a slightly different goal than
> functional classification.  To determine which roads ought to be trunk in
> Vermont, we looked at the FHWA functional classifications, the National
> Highway System, and the state DOT snow plowing priority map.  It would have
> been nice if our state DOT had a single classification system that we could
> simply map onto OSM highway=* values to produce a good highway map.  Since
> they do not, we looked at the commonalities between these datasets and
> considered connectivity between cities and towns of regional importance.
> This gave us a pretty clear picture of which roads are the most important
> in the state.
>
>
> There should be some conversation about the lower roads, as they're just
>> as important as the major roads, especially the secondary.
>>
>
> In Vermont we're taking it one step at a time as we volunteers have
> limited time and energy.  Now that we have trunk roads determined I'm sure
> we'll move on to the lower classes, but there hasn't been much discussion
> on this yet.  I imagine Kevin is similarly trying to break the problem up
> into pieces so as not to get overwhelmed with the complexity.
>
>
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