Editing Transport in the Czech Republic (section)

==Roads==
[[File:Motorways in Czechia map.svg|alt=|thumb|Map of the Czech motorway network (2024)]]
[[File:Dálnice D8 u Lovosic.jpg|thumb|right|Lovosice junction (km 45)]]

The Czech Republic has, in total, {{convert|55653|km|abbr=on}}<ref name="transtats">{{cite web|url=http://www.iraptranstats.net/cz |title=Transport in Czech Republic |access-date=2008-10-06 |date=2008-04-13 |work=International Transport Statistics Database |publisher=[[International Road Assessment Programme|IRAP]] }}</ref> of roads. It has {{convert|1247|km|abbr=on|}}<ref name=":0" /> of motorways. In the 1980s and 1990s there was a significant increase in passenger transport on the roads in the Czech Republic, which was associated with a sharp increase in the accident rate. Between 2007 and 2013, the death rate fell in every year, with a record low of 583 deaths in 2013, compared with the 1994 high of 1,473 casualties.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/news/zpravy/number-of-traffic-victims-in-czechrep-lowest-in-history-in-2013/1025609|title=Number of traffic victims in Czech Republic lowest in history in 2013|work=ceskenoviny.cz|date=1 January 2014|access-date=30 January 2014}}</ref> Despite this however, the fatality rate per head of population is moderately high, comparable to the [[United States]].<ref name="transtats"/>

===Highways===
{{main|Highways in the Czech Republic}}

There are 2 main categories of roads forming the main network: Motorways and Highways. These roads are managed by the state-owned Directorate of Highways and Motorways of the Czech Republic – ŘSD, established in 1997. Among the first modern motorways in the Czech Republic was the motorway from [[Prague]] to the [[Slovakia|Slovak border]] through [[Brno]] whose construction was started on May 2, 1939.

Motorways are dual carriageways with tolls and a speed limit of 130 km/h.
Highways can be single and dual carriageway with a speed limit of 90 km/h (dual carriageways are commonly signposted as Roads for motorcars with a speed limit of 110 km/h).

ŘSD currently manages and maintains 1,369&nbsp;km of motorways (''dálnice'').<ref name=":0">{{cite web| url = http://www.ceskedalnice.cz| title = České dálnice}}</ref>