Back road

A 2015 study by TRIP (a national transportation research group) in the United States found that back roads have a traffic fatality rate of 2.18 deaths per 100 million vehicle miles traveled, while the average across all US roads is 0.38.

[1] Back roads tend to have narrow lanes, limited or non-existent shoulders, inconsistent pavement with gravel patches, sharp curves, steep slopes, and poor visibility.

[3] In Vermont, the Natural Resources Conservation Service has established the Better Back Roads program to help towns and organizations deal with road-related soil erosion problems through grants.

This created a system of back roads that allowed for factories to disperse away from busy urban areas.

This was done in the late 1940s under Governor Kerr Scott and was known as the states rural farm-to-market road system.