Roadgeek

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Driving south on The Alaska Tok Cutoff Highway.

A roadgeek (sometimes roadfan or Roads Scholar) is a person that is interested in roads as a hobby. Typical roadgeek behaviors include:

Taking road trips for the roads rather than the destination (sometimes called roadgeeking or Roads Scholaring)
Taking photos of road signs or the highways themselves.
Collecting old road maps to study the roads
Maintaining web sites dedicated to the road network or highway system in a particular area

From the perspective of urban planning, roadfans tend to favor service (capacity)-oriented and classical urban development over transit-centered trends such as New Urbanism and Smart Growth.