Highways of Arcerion

Arcerion National Highway System
System map with National Highways in Red and Governorate/Interstate Highways in Blue, planned expansions in yellow.
System information
Formed	October 21, 1991 (1991-10-21)
Highway names
National Highways	Highway 1 Highway 2 Highway 3
Interstate Highways	Highways 11, 12, 13, 14, 21, 22, 31 (planned)

The Arcerion National Highway System (ANHS) is a network of strategic national highways, including the Governorate Roadway System, and other roads that serve major urban centres, ports of entry such as dockyards and airports, trucking terminals and logistics hubs, military bases, and rail junctions/switchyards. Its combines length makes it one of the largest and most well-maintained road networks in Crona, and carries the most amount of logistical truck-borne commerce of any road system in the Malentine Basin. Within Arcerion, individual governorates are given federal funding from the Confederate Parliament's Ministry of Transportation to improve, maintain, and expand their interstate roads as required. The roads are all for public use, as Arcerion has no national or interstate toll highways, instead relying on existing methods of taxation to repair and maintain the network.

The National Highway System was an informal series of roads and highways but was rapidly expanded and improved in the 1970s and 1980s, culminating with the Highways Act of 1991 which established the ANHS.

The ANHS is policed by the 'P' (Patrol) Division of the Royal Arcerion Constabulary.

Legislation

The Confederate Parliament passed the Highways Act of 1991, which outlined both what highways were to be amalgamated and nationalized, as well as which of the existing plans for highways would be included in the forecasted 1992 budget for the country as it expanded infrastructure into the Arcer Heartland. It provided the architecture to develop a National Transportation Plan in conjunction with the Arco National Railway Service and maritime ports, as up to this point Arcerion had predominantly relied on heavy rail and maritime commerce, and had a relatively underdeveloped medium and long-haul trucking capacity compared to other Occidental nations. It also laid out the plans for future roadways that incorporated green energy and environmental protections, and the Ministry of Transportation worked closely with the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources to ensure that the placement of large roadways would not alter the local ecology of Arcerion or threaten agricultural efforts.

Overview

Road signs for the National Highways (left) and Interstate Highways (right).