The Handan Ring Expressway is located in Handan City, Hebei Province, with a total length of 102 kilometers and a design speed of 120 kilometers per hour. It is a fully enclosed two-way four-lane highway. The high-speed outer ring planned by Handan City will be implemented in three phases. In 2007, with the help of the construction of the east section of Qinglan Expressway in Handan, we successfully took the first step and delineated a "northern semicircle"; in 2010, with the help of the construction of the west section of Qinglan Expressway in Handan, we implemented the second step and completed the ring". So far, three-quarters of the high-speed outer ring has been completed; the final step, the construction of the "Southeast Ring", is planned to move out during the expansion and reconstruction of the Shi'an Expressway, so as to achieve the final closure of the high-speed outer ring. According to the approval of the National Development and Reform Commission, the "Southeast Ring" is 36 kilometers long, with a design speed of 120 kilometers per hour, and a roadbed width of 28 meters. The first-level highway standard is used to construct an interchange connecting line with a length of about 4 kilometers.
The total length of the Expressway Outer Ring of Handan City will reach 102 kilometers after all closures, which is 4 kilometers longer than Beijing's Fifth Ring Road. This will create great traffic conditions for the economic development and expansion of the main urban area and will open up urban development. The new era of the new era." Huang Dongbo said, the Handan-Dalian Expressway under construction will also be docked with the outer ring of the high ring at the "southeast ring" position. By then, the expressway outer ring of Handan City will form an interchange with three expressways in five directions: east, west, south, north, and southeast, which will provide very convenient traffic conditions for the main city to reach various places. The function of urban traffic diversion and settlement of transit traffic has also been better brought into play.
The use of the Ring Expressway will effectively solve the problem that vehicles and transit vehicles traveling to and from surrounding counties must enter the main urban area before they can go to other counties. This will bring huge traffic pressure to the main urban area and cause traffic congestion and overwhelming problems. At the same time, the Ring Expressway will further shorten the space-time distance between the main urban area and the eight satellite cities, and build a pattern with the central urban area as the leader and the coordinated distribution of the eight satellite cities, providing a broad space for future urban development and helping Handan quickly open the urban framework.
