ROROs

[someone17]

I was looking through my old posts here and I saw something about ROROs, and naturally, I decided to look them up. There wasn't a very good source for seeing a RORO other than Google Maps; as I have looked everywhere for one. Google (not maps)? About the way of loading boats. AARoads? Nothing, really. I am enlisting your help to find and show good examples of RORO interchanges, and how it differs from RIRO interchanges.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Mt+Elam+Rd,+Massachusetts/@42.5475403,-71.8132528,217m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x89e3e6801cd65aa1:0x27f3ab12cbb18f88!8m2!3d42.5555335!4d-71.8077568

[hotdogPi]

What is the difference between a RIRO and a RORO?

[someone17]

What is the difference between a RIRO and a RORO?

No idea, that's why I'm asking and why I made this thread lmao

[hotdogPi]

Referring to this post?

MA 2 in/near Leominster has a few at-grades. MA/RI 146 also has two segments (one in each state) with several at-grade intersections.

The only remaining at-grade intersection on MA 2 in the Leominster area is Mt. Elam Road.  And the full intersection was removed in the early 1990s.  It's now just a pair of ROROs (right off, right on).  Likewise, most of the at-grade intersections on MA 146 in Millbury and Sutton have also ben converted to ROROs.  The only remaining full at-grade intersection on the MA segment is at Boston Road.

RIRO and RORO mean the exact same thing.

[vdeane]

RIRO is right in/right out (like this or even this).  Going by the Google Maps link, RORO appears to be ramp off/ramp on.

[TEG24601]

RIRO, is Right-in, Right-on/out


RORO is Roll-on, Roll-off.  This is typical terminology for ferries that that take vehicles on one end and they drive off the other end.

[Road Hog]

I assume the definition of a RIRO/RORO is the presence of on and off ramps in a location where there is no crossover and thus no full interchange. But if a crossover exists a mile or two up the road, is this really a true RIRO/RORO? Hmmmm.

[mgk920]

RORO to mean 'right off/right off', there is one of those at I-41/Main St (interchange 132) in Neenah, WI:

https://goo.gl/maps/3jkEHsEKLaLGLPpYA

It is 'off only' in both directions.



Mike

[RobbieL2415]

I was looking through my old posts here and I saw something about ROROs, and naturally, I decided to look them up. There wasn't a very good source for seeing a RORO other than Google Maps; as I have looked everywhere for one. Google (not maps)? About the way of loading boats. AARoads? Nothing, really. I am enlisting your help to find and show good examples of RORO interchanges, and how it differs from RIRO interchanges.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Mt+Elam+Rd,+Massachusetts/@42.5475403,-71.8132528,217m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x89e3e6801cd65aa1:0x27f3ab12cbb18f88!8m2!3d42.5555335!4d-71.8077568

This looks like it used to be an undivided intersection and they just left the light up.

[kphoger]

RORO is Roll-on, Roll-off.  This is typical terminology for ferries that that take vehicles on one end and they drive off the other end.

This.  RORO is a type of ferryboat.