G18 high speed is Rongwu highway.

G18 Rongwu Expressway (former WeiYan Expressway), G18 refers to the highway line number Rongcheng-Wuhai Expressway, referred to as Rongwu Expressway, China's national highway network number G18.

Starting point is in Rongcheng, passing through WeiHai, Yantai, XinHe, DongYing, HuangHua, Tianjin, Bazhou, LaiYuan, Shuozhou, Ordos, and ends in Wuhai, with a total length of 1,820 kilometers. Shandong section of Rongwu Expressway has been opened to traffic on September 28, 2008 for the whole line. The planned route Dongying to Tianjin section and G25 Changshen high-speed re-route.

Rongwu high-speed project for the eastern part of the country into the western part of the region to provide convenient transportation, for further promoting the east and west close exchanges, to achieve economic complementarity is of great significance.

Advantages of highway

1, high speed

The average speed of highway is more than 80 kilometers per hour, and the maximum speed can reach 120 kilometers per hour, which is 60% to 70% higher than that of ordinary highway.

2, large capacity

Highway lanes, wide pavement, large capacity, the highway can bear the amount of transportation than the ordinary highway several times or even dozens of times higher.

3, reduce transportation costs

Highway perfect road facilities conditions make the car unit transport volume of fuel and tire consumption, vehicle wear and tear, cargo damage and accident compensation loss reduction, so that the cost of transportation is greatly reduced.

4, to promote the development of automobile manufacturing

Highway efficiency to promote the organization of highway transport changes, so that the automobile manufacturing industry to improve the axle load, large-scale, high-speed, special models and the development of container trucks.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Rongcheng-Wuhai Expressway