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Fclassification, the greater the land service provided. 13 As the Orange County Land Use Element 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 Systeml 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 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 throughout the County. . The classification scheme used describes roads according to the following categories: Interstate, arterial, collector and local. 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 provide areas with access to the major road system. Local roads are least important in terms of traffic movement, but provide the greatest service in terms of land area, 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 following page and on the Orange County Highway Classification System Map on the following page. OTHER SIGNIFICANT TRANSPORTATION EL NTS Orange County's transportation system is dominated by the road network, but is not entirely defined by it. Rail facilities and air services additionally comprise the transportation system and contribute to the movement of people and goods through Orange County. &a,l Facilities. Orange County is served by the Southern Railroad which traverses the central portion of the County in an east /west direction through Eno Hillsborough and Cheeks Townships parallel to the I -85 /US 70 corridor. The Southern Railroad also serves the southern portion of the Carrboro /Chapel Hill area, although this segment of the line is now rarely used. Air Serviceg. Orange County is served by publicly -owned airport. Horace Williams, a general aviation airport, is owned and operated by the University of North Carolina. Concentrated residential development has surrounded the airport during recent decades and resulted in conflict between the airport and its environs. In an effort to reduce the level of conflict the University of North Carolina has elected to impose a 50 -craft limit on based aircraft and a corresponding ceiling on aircraft activity, effectively limiting the airport to one -third of its 1- Highway Functional Classification: Concepts; Criteria and Procedures. U.S. Department of Transportation: Federal Highway Administration. July 1974. 2.6-3