Department of Rural Roads

Department of Rural Roads

Department of Rural Roads (DORR, is a กรมทางหลวงชนบท, Krom Thang Luang Chonnabot) is a department of the Thai government, under the Ministry of Transport. It maintains rural roads under a different numbering scheme from national roads, which is handled by the Department of Highways (DOH, กรมทางหลวง, Krom Thang Luang).

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Definition

The 1992 Highway Act (Thai: พระราชบัญญัติทางหลวง พ.ศ. 2535), revised as the 2006 Highway Act (Thai: พระราชบัญญัติทางหลวง (ฉบับที่ 2) พ.ศ. 2549), defines five highway types:[1]

A rural highway (Thai: ทางหลวงชนบท) or rural road is a highway for which the Department of Rural Roads carries out construction, expansion, upkeep and repairs. Registration of rural highways is overseen by the Director General of the DORR.

Roads Numbering

YS.4011

Signs are gold-on-blue, with a two-letter province designation prefixed to the road number. Depicted is YS.4011, for a rural road in Yasothon Province. The rural road network measures some 35,000 km, about 82 percent of which is paved. The Department of Rural Roads of the Ministry of Transport takes care of the maintenance of all the rural roads in Thailand.[2]

YS2002 KM 5.jpg

DORR milestones show the kilometer number, and the edges may show distances remaining to the next two villages.

Contact information

DOR maintains a Hot line, the number is 1146.

References

  1. ^ DOH website, ประเภททางหลวง, retrieved on November 13, 2008
  2. ^ World Bank, Transport in Thailand, retrieved October 14, 2008

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