ExpresswayNorway
Traffic rules
Norway
1. Expressway
An expressway is a road intended to carry through traffic efficiently, usually at higher speeds than ordinary roads. Expressways often have limited access, multiple lanes, separated carriageways or grade-separated junctions, but their design and legal status vary between countries.
An expressway is not always a motorway. It may have intersections, traffic lights or direct access, and the permitted road users, speed limits and special rules depend on local signs and regulations.
How do people refer to an expressway in Norway?
Norwegian law uses motortrafikkveg for this road category. It is a road for motor traffic, separate from a motorway.
🔗 lovdata.no • Norwegian signing regulation — current sign catalogue, markings and signals
Start of an expressway.
English • Traffic sign 503 • Expressway. Expressway traffic rules apply from this sign until 505 ‘End of expressway’, 502 ‘Motorway’, or the junction between an expressway exit road and a road that is not an expressway.
Norsk bokmål • Skilt 503 • Motortrafikkveg. Skiltet angir at trafikkreglenes bestemmelser om motortrafikkveg gjelder fra skiltet og til skilt 505 «Slutt på motortrafikkveg», til skilt 502 «Motorveg» eller til kryss mellom avkjøringsveg fra motortrafikkveg og veg som ikke er motortrafikkveg.
Sources
🔗 Commons.wikimedia.org
🔗 Lovdata.no • Skiltforskriften § 12
SVG source: Peter J. Acklam converted the original EPS file to PDF with Ghostscript’s ps2pdf utility and the PDF file to SVG with Inkscape. • Public domain • Original revision 2008-08-04. Wikimedia original unmodified.
End of the expressway.
English • Traffic sign 505 • End of expressway.
Norsk bokmål • Skilt 505 • Slutt på motortrafikkveg.
Sources
🔗 Commons.wikimedia.org
🔗 Lovdata.no • Skiltforskriften § 12
SVG source: Peter J. Acklam converted the original EPS file to PDF with Ghostscript’s ps2pdf utility and the PDF file to SVG with Inkscape. • Public domain • Original revision 2008-08-04. Wikimedia original unmodified.
What speed limit applies to cars on an expressway in Norway?
Follow the posted limit. The road-for-motor-traffic designation does not itself permit 110 km/h; different sections have different limits. The ordinary default outside built-up areas is 80 km/h unless otherwise signed.
🔗 lovdata.no • Norwegian signing regulation — current sign catalogue, markings and signals
Who may use an expressway in Norway?
Normally, only motor vehicles or combinations that may legally travel at at least 40 km/h on a level road are admitted. Mopeds are prohibited. This does not require maintaining 40 km/h when traffic or safety requires less.
🔗 lovdata.no • Norwegian signing regulation — current sign catalogue, markings and signals
Can I stop on an expressway in Norway?
Stopping for an ordinary break is prohibited on a motortrafikkveg and its entry and exit roads. Use a designated rest or parking facility instead, and follow police directions.
🔗 lovdata.no • Norwegian signing regulation — current sign catalogue, markings and signals
