Editing Transport in Italy (section)

===Other classifications===
These classifications are not provided for by the Italian [[traffic code]].

====Major communication road====
[[File:SGC FI-PI-LI 15.JPG|thumb|''Strada di grande comunicazione'' [[Florence]]-[[Pisa]]-[[Livorno]]]]

In Italy, some roads of national importance are called ''strada di grande comunicazione'' (abbreviated to SGC; "major communication roads"), an expression coined by the [[Touring Club Italiano]] and used in its maps and publications since the 1920s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stradeanas.it/index.php?/news/download/file/491|title=CRONOLOGIA DEGLI 80 ANNI DELL'ANAS|access-date=29 March 2024|language=it|archive-date=3 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303171759/http://www.stradeanas.it/index.php?%2Fnews%2Fdownload%2Ffile%2F491|url-status=live}}</ref>

Law no. 126 of 12 February 1958, as amended by law no. 167 of 9 April 1971, classified state roads either as major trunk roads or as ordinary state roads.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.periti.info/legge/280.html|title=Modifiche ed integrazioni alle leggi 12 febbraio 1958, n. 126, 7 febbraio 1961, n. 59, e 21 aprile 1962, n. 181, concernenti l'Azienda nazionale autonoma delle strade e la viabilità comunale e provinciale.|date=24 April 1971|access-date=1 June 2021|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120911064254/http://www.periti.info/legge/280.html|archive-date=11 September 2012|language=it}}</ref>

For law n. 531 of 12 August 1982 (GU no. 223 of 14/08/1982), the main roads were classified as motorways, Alpine tunnels, motorway junctions, and roads that connect the main road network with the neighboring states, roads that constitute the major routes of national traffic (including Sicily and Sardinia), roads that constitute the main inter-regional connections and roads connecting to the first category ports and the most important airports.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.italgiure.giustizia.it/nir/lexs/1982/lexs_283228.html|title=Legge n°531 del 12 agosto 1982|access-date=29 March 2024|language=it}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}</ref>

The acronym SGC is not used to identify other types of roads (as is the case with the acronyms A, SS, SR, SP) but is used in address documents.

====Superstrada====
[[File:Serrenti - SS131 Carlo Felice.jpg|thumb|The ''superstrada'' [[Cagliari]]-[[Porto Torres]] ([[Strada statale 131 Carlo Felice]]), the main road artery of [[Sardinia]]]]

A ''superstrada'' ("super road") is a fast road, often with separate carriageways in each direction, reserved for the circulation of motor vehicles and without at-grade intersections and urban crossings. The colloquial classification of ''superstrada'' refers to all roads classified ''technically'' as main extra-urban roads and, in general, to secondary two-lane extra-urban roads.