A road is a thoroughfare, route, or way on land between two places that has been paved or otherwise improved to allow travel by some conveyance, including a horse, cart, bicycle, or motor vehicle. Roads consist of one or two roadways (British English: carriageways), each with one or more lanes and any associated sidewalks (British English: pavement) and road verges. Roads that are available for use by the public may be referred to as public roads or as highways.
With the advent of cheap arti grav and flyers with simple, computronic assisted controls, roads are more or less obsolete on most of the core worlds, but there are still many less-developed planets where roads are still built and used.
Some Union world maintains long slide ways connecting cities and locations.
The word road has also remained to be used in terms of describing connections between two points.