Key:zone:traffic

zone:traffic
Description
Indicates urban/rural/other default set of traffic rules applies to this road.
Group: restrictions
Used on these elements
Documented values: 11
Requires
highway=*
Useful combination
maxspeed=*
See also
urban=* motorway=*
Status: in use
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This tag indicates which set of implicit traffic rules apply to a particular road (rules not set explicitly by signs). Each value of this tag is associated with a different set of default traffic rules.

Because default traffic rules vary from country to country, values are country-specific (or region-specific if traffic regulations vary within the country). The traffic regulations of most countries distinguish at least two zones: urban (inside the built-up area / city limits) and rural (outside the built-up area / city limits).

All values follow the format <ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code or ISO 3166-2 region code>:<rural or urban or something else>.

This tag is based on the trafficzone proposal, which is still in draft status but widely accepted in Germany.

Values

Belgium

Since the Sixth Belgian State Reform, the regional governments can and do set separate default speed limits, but only on non-motorways.

Situation	zone:traffic=*	Default maxspeed=*
Motorway (autosnelweg, autoroute), outside the built-up area	BE:motorway	120 km/h
Non-motorway, in the Flemish Region, outside the built-up area (buiten de bebouwde kom)	BE-VLG:rural	usually 70 km/h
Non-motorway, in the Flemish Region, inside the built-up area (binnen de bebouwde kom)	BE-VLG:urban	usually 50 km/h
Non-motorway, in the Walloon Region, outside the built-up area (sise hors agglomération)	BE-WAL:rural	usually 90 km/h
Non-motorway, in the Walloon Region, inside the built-up area (dans une agglomération)	BE-WAL:urban	usually 50 km/h
Non-motorway, in the Brussels-Capital Region, outside the built-up area	BE-BRU:rural	usually 70 km/h
Non-motorway, in the Brussels-Capital Region, inside the built-up area	BE-BRU:urban	usually 30 km/h

Germany

Situation	zone:traffic=*	Default maxspeed=*
Motorway (Autobahn)	DE:motorway	none
Non-motorway, outside the built-up area (außerhalb geschlossener Ortschaften)	DE:rural	usually 100 km/h
Non-motorway, inside the built-up area (innerhalb geschlossener Ortschaften)	DE:urban	usually 50 km/h

Various other values are also currently in use in Germany, which partially overlap with the zones defined above. This should be resolved such that every road is in a unique zone. Note that other traffic rules can be mapped with separate tags.

Netherlands

Each Caribbean island has separate traffic rules.

Situation	zone:traffic=*	Default maxspeed=*
In the European part of the country, outside the built-up area (buiten de bebouwde kom)	NL:rural	usually 80 km/h (motorways: 130 km/h, roads for motor vehicles: 100 km/h)
In the European part of the country, inside the built-up area (binnen de bebouwde kom)	NL:urban	usually 50 km/h
On Bonaire, outside the built-up area	BQ-BO:rural	60 km/h
On Bonaire, inside the built-up area	BQ-BO:urban	40 km/h
On Sint Eustatius, outside the built-up area	BQ-SE:rural	60 km/h
On Sint Eustatius, inside the built-up area	BQ-SE:urban	40 km/h
On Saba, outside the built-up area	BQ-SA:rural	60 km/h
On Saba, inside the built-up area	BQ-SA:urban	30 km/h

See also

• zone:maxspeed=* - Used to mark streets which are part of a speed limit zone
• traffic_sign=city_limit - Traffic sign typically used to mark the boundary between urban and rural zones
• Default speed limits for routing
• Default access restrictions for routing