Shanghai has an expansive grade-separated highway and expressway network consisting of 14 city elevated and surface expressways, 9 provincial-level expressways, and 8 national-level expressways. Several city highways and provincial-level expressways are also under construction.
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Most city expressways are found in the inner districts of Shanghai, including several elevated highways which run directly above surface-level roadways. In Chinese, these expressways are literally termed City High-speed Roadways (Chinese: 城市快速道路), although the maximum speed is usually 80 kilometres per hour (50 mph). These are still considered expressways or controlled-access highways because of the presence of ramps, grade-separated junctions, and the absence of traffic lights. Most of these expressways are elevated and run above a lower-speed roadway. Two city expressways, the Inner Ring Road and Middle Ring Road, are, or will be, ring roads or beltways.
English name | Hanzi name | Termini | Notes |
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Inner Ring Road Also known as Inner Ring Elevated Road |
上海内环线 内环高架路 |
Ring road | 47.7 kilometres (29.6 mi) long. Crosses the Huangpu River using the Yangpu Bridge and Nanpu Bridge. |
Yan'an Elevated Road | 延安高架路 | Hongqiao International Airport The Bund, Bund Tunnel, East Zhongshan No. 1 Road |
15 kilometres (9.3 mi) long. |
South-North Elevated Road | 南北高架路 | Jiyang Road and Yaohua Road, Lupu Bridge S20 Outer Ring Expressway |
18.1 kilometres (11.2 mi) long. |
Yixian Elevated Road | 逸仙高架路 | Inner Ring Road S20 Outer Ring Expressway and G1501 Shanghai Ring Expressway |
9.5 kilometres (5.9 mi) long. |
Middle Ring Road | 中环路 | Jinqiao Road and Pudong Avenue, Pudong Middle Huaxia Road, Shenjiang Road, and Huaxia Elevated Road, Pudong |
Sections of Middle Ring Road are still under construction. Its length so far is 59.25 kilometres (36.82 mi). When complete, it will become a ring road. Crosses the Huangpu River using the Jungong Road Tunnel and Shangzhong Road Tunnel. |
Humin Elevated Road | 沪闵高架路 | Inner Ring Road G60 Shanghai–Kunming Expressway, G92 Hangzhou Bay Ring Expressway, S20 Outer Ring Expressway, and S4 Shanghai–Jinshan Expressway |
13.32 kilometres (8.28 mi) long. |
Jiamin Elevated Road | 嘉闵高架路 | Beidi Elevated Road S124 Husong Highway |
Part of the Hongqiao Comprehensive Transportation Hub. |
Huaxia Elevated Road | 华夏高架路 | Middle Ring Road at Shenjiang Road S1 Yingbin Expressway near Pudong International Airport |
15.6 kilometres (9.7 mi) long. |
Beidi Elevated Road | 北翟高架路 | Jiamin Elevated Road Middle Ring Road |
7.3 kilometres (4.5 mi) long. Part of the Hongqiao Comprehensive Transportation Hub. |
Songze Elevated Road | 崧泽高架路 | G15 Shenyang–Haikou Expressway Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station and Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport Terminal 2 |
Part of the Hongqiao Comprehensive Transportation Hub. |
Jianhong Elevated Road | 建虹高架路 | Part of the Hongqiao Comprehensive Transportation Hub. | |
Hongdi Elevated Road | 虹翟高架路 | Part of the Hongqiao Comprehensive Transportation Hub. | |
Hongyu Elevated Road | 虹渝高架路 | Part of the Hongqiao Comprehensive Transportation Hub. | |
Caobao Elevated Road | 漕宝高架路 | Part of the Hongqiao Comprehensive Transportation Hub. |
Designations for provincial-level and federal-level expressways in Shanghai had the letter prefix A before the number of the expressway. Starting at the Yingbin Expressway, which was designated the number 1, the numbers increased clockwise around the city. For ring expressways, the designations A20, A30, A40, etc., were used. For expressways connecting to other provinces which already had national designations (beginning with the letter G), designations with the letter A were attached.
In August 2009, Shanghai replaced its system of naming expressways with the prefix A with the letter prefix S, in order to conform to the general designations for provincial-level highways. The S means Shengdao, or provincial-level roads. The letter prefix A was abolished.
Designation | Former designation | English name | Hanzi name | Termini | Notes |
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S1 | A1 | Yingbin Expressway | 迎宾高速公路 | S2 Shanghai–Luhugang Expressway and S20 Outer Ring Expressway Pudong International Airport; continues as S32 Shenjiahu Expressway |
12 kilometres (7.5 mi) long. |
S2 | A2 | Shanghai–Luhugang Expressway | 沪芦高速公路 | S1 Yingbin Expressway and S20 Outer Ring Expressway Yangshan Port |
74.8 kilometres (46.5 mi) long including the Donghai Bridge. |
S3 | A3 | Shanghai–Fengxian Expressway | 沪奉高速公路 | In planning. | |
S4 | A4 | Shanghai–Jinshan Expressway | 沪金高速公路 | Interchange with S20 Outer Ring Expressway, Humin Elevated Road, G60 Shanghai–Kunming Expressway, and G92 Hangzhou Bay Ring Expressway G15 Shenyang–Haikou Expressway |
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S5 | A12 | Shanghai–Jiading Expressway | 沪嘉高速公路 | Middle Ring Road Yecheng Road, Jiading District |
20.5 kilometres (12.7 mi) long. |
S6 | A17 | Shanghai–Nanxiang Expressway | 沪翔高速公路 | In planning. | |
S7 | A13 | Yanjiang Expressway (Second Phase) | 沿江高速公路 (二期) | In planning. | |
S19 | A6 | Xinnong–Jinshanwei Expressway | 新卫高速公路 | G1501 Shanghai Ring Expressway and S36 Tinglin–Fengjing Expressway Jinshanwei, Jinshan District |
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S20 | A20 | Outer Ring Expressway | 外环高速公路 | Ring road | 99 kilometres (62 mi) long. Crosses the Huangpu River using the Xupu Bridge and the Outer Ring Tunnel. It is the third in a series of four ring roads around the city of Shanghai. |
S26 | A16 | Shanghai–Changzhou Expressway | 沪常高速公路 | G1501 Shanghai Ring Expressway Jiangsu border |
Continues into Changzhou, in Jiangsu province. |
S32 | A15 | Shanghai–Jiaxing–Huzhou Expressway | 申嘉湖高速公路 | Pudong International Airport; continues north as S1 Yingbin Expressway Zhejiang border |
Continues to Huzhou, Zhejiang. |
S36 | A7 | Tinglin–Fengjing Expressway | 亭枫高速公路 | G60 Shanghai–Kunming Expressway G1501 Shanghai Ring Expressway and S19 Xinnong–Jinshanwei Expressway |
National highways and expressways in Shanghai both have the prefix G, an abbreviation for Guodao (Chinese: 国道), which literally means National roads. It is important to note that both grade-separated, controlled-access expressways and normal at-grade highways both have the prefix G. Only the national-level expressways are mentioned here. National-highways which are at grade and not controlled-access are also found in Shanghai, and these include G204, G312, G318, and G320. Expressways also have green-coloured signs while their highway counterparts have red-coloured signs.