5202.1 Major Arterial Streets (or Primary Arterial, or Urban Principal Arterial): Streets that serve the highest traffic volume corridors and the longest trip. Provides travel between business districts and outlying residential areas, between major inner city communities and between major suburban centers, and connects communities to major state and interstate highways. No or limited access is allowed from residential streets. Access is usually partially controlled. Spacing of major arterial streets is generally from one mile to 5 miles.
5202.2 Minor Arterial Streets (or Secondary Arterial, or Urban Minor Arterial): Streets that interconnect and augment the major arterial streets. No or limited access is allowed from residential lots. Accommodate trips of moderate length at a lower level of travel mobility than major arterial streets. Spacing of minor arterial streets is generally from one-half mile to 3 miles.
5202.3 Industrial/Commercial Collector (or Collector, or Urban Collector): Streets that collect traffic to and from commercial or industrial areas and distribute it to arterial streets.
5202.4 Residential Collector Streets (or Collector, or Urban Collector): Streets that collect traffic to and from residential areas and distribute it to arterial streets. Limited access is allowed from residential lots. Desirable maximum ADT = 3,000 for residential collector streets.
5202.5 Residential Local Streets (or Local, or Urban Local): Streets that only carry traffic having its origin or destination within the immediate neighborhood. Desirable maximum ADT = 1,000 for local streets. (ADT = 10 trips per day per typical single-family residence.)
5202.6 Residential Access Streets: Streets that carry traffic between residential lots and residential local streets or residential collector streets. Residential access streets usually carry no through traffic and include short loop streets, culs-de-sac, and courts. Desirable maximum ADT = 200 for culs-de- sac and 400 for loop streets. Maximum length of culs-de-sac = 500 feet and 1,000 feet for loop streets (ADT = ten trips per day per typical single-family residence.)