Iran route numbering system

Iran route numbering system is a network of highways and roads in Iran that is managed by Iran Road Maintenance & Transportation Organization. The network comprises main highways and several major and minor country roads.

Route signs

blue on motorways, green on other roads. 3-digit numbers appear in black on a white rectangle

• Common route signs used in Iran
• 
  Freeway marker
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  Expressway marker
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  Road marker

Routes

Asian Highways

• AH1
• AH2
• AH8
• AH70
• AH71
• AH72
• AH75
• AH78
• AH82

Motorway (Freeway)

Numbers roughly increase from west to east .

• Freeway 1 (Qazvin-Rasht Freeway)
• Freeway 2
• Freeway 2
• Freeway 3 (Tehran-Shomal Freeway), under construction
• Freeway 5
• Freeway 6 (Saveh-Hamedan Freeway), (Hamedan-Kermanshah-Khosravi) planned
• Freeway 7
• Freeway 9 (Mo'allem Freeway) (Isfahan-Shahinshahr Freeway), under construction
• Freeway 16 (Tabriz-Urmia Freeway), Partly built
• Freeway 51 (Zobahan Freeway), under construction

National highway

Odd numbers (11-99) generally denote north-south routes, while even numbers (12-98) denote east-west routes. Numbers increase in eastbound and southbound direction respectively. There are some A roads without a national number. Motorways do not have national numbers. 3-digit numbers are derived from 2-digit numbers by adding a digit at the end.

• Road 71 (Tehran-Qom Highway)
• Road 65 (Tehran-Saveh Highway)
• Road 22 (Coastal Road of Caspian Sea)
• Road 79 (Sevad Kooh RD) (Sari-Tehran) Some parts of it under construction
• Road 77 (Haraz Road)
• Road 62 (Esfahan-KhorramAbad Esfahan-Yazd)
• Road 65 (Tehran-Isfahan Highway)
• Road 86 (Shiraz-Kerman Shiraz-Ahvaz)
• Road 22 Turkmenistan-Mashhad-Mazandaran
• Road 36 Bardaskan-Taybad
• Road 44 (Tehran Highway) Tehran-Mashhad
• Road 16 (Azerbaijan lake Bridge)

References

• Iran Road Maintenance & Transportation Organization
• Road management center of Iran
• Ministry of Roads & Urban Development of Iran Archived 2017-01-21 at the Wayback Machine