Types of Roads
Roman roads varied from simple corduroy roads to paved roads using deep roadbeds of tamped rubble as an underlying layer to ensure that they kept dry, as the water would flow out from between the stones and fragments of rubble, instead of becoming mud in clay soils. According to Ulpian, there were three types of roads:
- Viae publicae, consulares, praetoriage or militares
- Viae privatae, rusticae, glareae or agrariae
- Viae vicinales
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