The trans-European road network shall comprise motorways and high-quality roads, whether existing, new or to be adapted, which:

• play an important role in long-distance traffic, or

• bypass the main urban centres on the routes identified by the network, or

• provide interconnection with other modes of transport, or

• link landlocked and peripheral regions to central regions of the Community.

The network shall guarantee users a high, uniform and continuous level of services, comfort and safety.

The network shall also include infrastructure for traffic management, user information, dealing with incidents and emergencies and electronic fee collection, such infrastructure being based on active cooperation between traffic management systems at European, national and regional level and providers of travel and traffic information and value added services, which will ensure the necessary complementarity with applications whose deployment is facilitated under the trans-European telecommunications networks programme.