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13 <br /> 5Q <br /> The functional criteria, as expressed in this document, are in primarily qualitative terms <br /> with respect to travel patterns and usage. Because of varying geographic conditions, <br /> (e.g., population densities, spacing between and sizes of cities, and patterns of the road <br /> networks) Orange County's references to sizes of population centers and trip lengths <br /> may be unique to Orange County in some instances. <br /> A comparison of the distribution of Orange County's Functional Classifications for its <br /> public road system outside municipal jurisdictions and the recommended functional <br /> classification distribution by FHWA and NCDOT is depicted in Table 3. Below. <br /> Table 3. Percentage of Total Road Network by Classification. <br /> ORANGE COUNTY FHWA/NCDOT FHWA/ ORANGE <br /> FUNCTTONAL FUNCTIONAL NCDOT COUNTY <br /> CLASSIFICATION CLASSIFICATION <br /> 2 -4 3 <br /> 6 - 12 9 <br /> 20 - 25 27 <br /> 65 - 75 61 <br /> C. ANALYSIS OF EXISTING CONDITIONS <br /> Policy Issues <br /> The functional Classification of Orange County's road system identifies Interstate/major <br /> transportation corridors, arterial and collector roads. These form the basic roadway <br /> infrastructure or skeleton for the movement of people and goods. In addition, the <br /> functional road classification for major and minor local roads comprise the majority of <br /> the system mileage and the greatest degree of interface between roadway and land <br /> use. <br /> A properly designed road system should have a sufficient number of evenly spaced <br /> roads of each classification in order to adequately serve the desired land uses and <br /> intensity of development. Because roads consume land and resources in addition to <br /> capital and maintenance costs, providing more roads than necessary to serve such <br /> demand is undesirable. A proper balance of roads serving each function is desirable to <br /> serve the existing and planned land use as well as through or out-of-county travel. <br /> F:\PLANNING\KLINCOLN\compplan\transele.doc\2-10-00\2-15-00 <br />