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access provided to land uses; the lower the road classification, the great- er the land service provided. As the Orange County Land Use Plan is concerned primarily with those areas outside the corporate and planning boundaries of the urban areas, the focus of the classification scheme is the rural road network. A modified version of the N.C. Highway Functional Classification System' was used by the Orange County Planning Department to describe the County's road network. The system describes parts of the road network according to the level of service they are intended to supply based on the factors of access and mobility. The classification of roads reflects the integration of road types in providing transportation service through- out the County. The classification scheme used describes roads according to the follow- ing categories: Interstate, arterial, collector, local, sub-collector and minor. The categories of particular relevance, however, are the Interstate arterial, collector and local roads. The Interstate and arterial highways provide the best service (shortest travel times) to and from important employment, shopping, educational and population centers. They are characterized by relatively high travel speeds with minimum interference to through movement. Collector roads do not pro- vide areas with access to the major road system. Local roads are least important in terms of traffic movement, but provide the greatest ser- vice in terms of land service, in aggregate providing large land, areas with access to more important roads. In terms of total road miles, local roads will account for the largest proportion of road miles in the County given the large land areas they serve, while arterials will account for the smallest proportion. The classification of roads in Orange County is presented on the follow- ing page and on the Orange County Highway Classification System map. 1Highway Functional Classification: -COncepts Criteria and Procedures. -p- ox ansport. ion: Federal Highway Administration.' July, 1974.