- For further information, see Road names/USA, Road types/USA and Virginia/Mapping resources.
In Virginia, outside cities and major towns (and a couple of urban counties), nearly every road and street is designated as a "state highway" and assigned a number for VDOT inventory purposes. However, for Waze routing, we only treat primary state highways as "numbered state highways" for purposes of applying the road type guidelines. Highways marked with primary route numbers must be designated as at least "Minor Highway" in Waze, unless the road's functional classification requires a higher designation. For Virginia secondary highways, rely on the road's functional classification only.
Primary state highways have numbers in the range of 2 to 599 (and, as an exception, 895), displayed in a route marker using a shield design. All other numbers from 600 up are secondary highways; if these roads have route markers (many do not), they use a circle design instead of a shield. See route index resources for more info.
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Primary route marker
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Secondary route marker
Locking standard
Actual locks used may be more or less than values in the table below, depending on area circumstance
Please consult the RC, SM, or appropriate AM for guidance
| Segment Type | Urban | Rural | |||||||||
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| Freeway | 5 | ||||||||||
| Ramp | Highest rank of connected segment | ||||||||||
| Major Highway | 4 | 3 | |||||||||
| Minor Highway | 3 | 2 | |||||||||
| Primary Street | 2 | 1 | |||||||||
| Street | 1 | ||||||||||
| • • • • Ferry • • • • | 5 | ||||||||||
| |-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-| Railroad |-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-| | 2 | ||||||||||