Dubai route numbering system

While within city limits, most roads and highways take alternate names, but are consistently identified by their corresponding E-route number.

D-routes connect localities within the city of Dubai and are identified by the emblem of a fort, the letter D and a two or three digit number.

Considerably shorter in length than the average E-route, D-routes provide an intra-city network of roads and streets.

D-routes perpendicular to the Persian Gulf coast are odd numbered and increase as the network moves towards the emirate of Sharjah.

Some of the D-routes include:[1] Major roads typically surround a community or locality within the city and are addressed by a name and a three digit identification number.