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    The public road network in Mainland Tanzania is classified as:

    • National roads
    • District roads

    The National road shall include:

    a) A Trunk road which is primarily:
      (i)A national route that links two or more regional headquarters; or
      (ii)An international through route that links regional headquarters and another major or important city or town or major port outside Tanzania
       
    b) A Regional road is a secondary road that connects
      (i) A Trunk road and a district or regional headquarters;
      (ii)A regional headquarters and district headquarters.
       
    The District road shall include:
       
    a) A collector road which is –
      (i) A road linking a district headquarters and a division centre;
    (ii) A road linking a division centre with any other division centre;
    (iii) A route linking a division centre with a ward centre;
    (iv) A road within urban an area carrying through traffic which predominantly originates from and destined out of the town and links with either regional or a trunk road;
       
    b) A feeder road which shall be –
      (i) A road within urban area that links a collector road and other minor road within the vicinity and collects or distributes traffic between residential, industrial and principal business centres of the town;
    (ii) A village access road linking wards to other wards centres
       
    c) A community road within the village or a road which links a village to a village.

    Tanzania Road Network Length

    Road Category
    Paved (km)
    Unpaved (km)
    Total (km)
     Trunk Roads
    3,917
    6,027
    9,944
     Regional Roads
    327
    18,629
    18,956
     District Roads
    0
    29,537
    29,537
     Feeder Roads
    0
    21,191
    21,191
     Urban Roads
    790
    5,107
    5,897
     TOTAL
    5,034
    80,491
    85,525

    Source:
    Road Subsector Maintainance Financing and Strategies for year 2007/2008 to year 2011/2012 by Roads Fund Board, March 2007.