The French territorial Department of Eure-et-Loir, the administrative centre of which is the town of Chartres, is approximately 100 kilometres to the southwest of Paris, and has one of the most extensive Departmental Road Networks in the whole of France: total highway length is approximately 7,500 kilometres. The local government authority [Conseil General] has the responsibility of managing this asset, the value of which is substantial, set at FRF 27 billion. The definition of the master plan for the Departmental Road Network made it possible to divide the network up into four ranked categories on the basis of criteria related to economic considerations, tourism and traffic load. 0 % of the Department network) form the core network for the territorial Department and are used by a relatively high level of heavy goods traffic (more than 100 trucks per day per direction on approximately 20% of total highway length). As an indication, and to help the associated goals and issues to be seen more clearly, the cost of bringing up the core Department road network to required standards is evaluated at FRF 400 million. For the covering abstract see ITRD E135448.
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