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Higways are called motorways in Aethelnia. All motorways have the prefix "M", followed by their construction number, Motorway M1 being the first motorway to be constructed.

All motorways in Aethelnia are equiped with Automatic Number Plate Recognition ANPR for road surveillance, security, traffic management and taxation purposes.

Automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) is a mass surveillance method that uses optical character recognition on images to read the licence plates on vehicles. As of 306, systems can scan number plates at around one per second on cars traveling up to 100 mph (160 km/h). They can use existing closed-circuit television or road-rule enforcement cameras, or ones specifically designed for the task. They are used by the Aethelnian police and Aethelnian Secret Service, and as a method of electronic toll collection on pay-per-use roads and congestion charge zones, and monitoring traffic activity, such as red light adherence in an intersection.

The federal ministry of Transport is studying a treffic management system, which will include a sophisticated array of sensors and transmitters under the road that guide the cars in their lanes and that give orders to the cars from a "traffic management computer" that relinquishes control when you exit the motorway. The system could be compared to airways controlling systems in use.

Aet motorways

Motorways of Aethelnia