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| Classification | Scale | Speed | Location | Specific feature |
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| Highway | Long-distance | Medium | Open country | Free of intersections, driveways, and adjacent buildings |
| Boulevard | Long-distance | Medium | Urbanized area | Buildings line, expansive parking, and sidewalk inside and planting trees in center |
| Avenue | Short-distance | Medium | Urban area | Ends with a significant building or monument |
| Drive | Edge of the urban area and beside of natural zone | Medium | Along a waterfront, park, or headland | One side of the drive, boulevard, with sidewalk and buildings, while the other has the qualities of a parkway, with naturalistic planting and rural detailing |
| Street | Small-scale | Low | Access to higher density areas like business zones or rowhouses | Raised curbs, wide sidewalks, closed drainage, parallel parking, trees in individual planting areas, and buildings aligned on short setbacks |
| Road | Small-scale | Low | Frontage of low-density buildings such as houses | Rural landscape with open areas, plantings and narrow sidewalks |
| Alley | Narrow access route | — | Servicing the rear of buildings on a street | Usually paved to their edges, with center drainage via an inverted crown |
| Lane | Narrow access route | — | Access to houses' backyard | Useful for accommodating utility runs, enhancing the privacy of rear yards, and providing play areas for children |
| Passage | Narrow, pedestrian-only connector | — | Cutting between buildings | Access from the middle of long blocks and connect frontage and backyard of blocks |
| Path | Narrow pedestrian and bicycle connector | — | A park or the open country | Emerge from the sidewalk network, necessary along highways but not required to supplement boulevards, streets, and roads |
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