Appian Way

First and most famous of the ancient Roman roads, running from Rome to Campania and southern Italy. Begun in 312 BC by the censor Appius Claudius Caecus, the road originally ran 132 mi (212 km) to ancient Capua; by 244 BC it extended 230 mi (370 km) to the port of Brundisium (Brindisi) in Italy's heel. Built of smoothly fitted blocks of lava on a heavy stone foundation, the road provided a long-lasting surface for transporting merchandise to these seaports (and thence by ship to Greece and the eastern Mediterranean). Remains can be seen today outside Rome.

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Right-of-way or right of way may refer to:

In geography:

• A situation in which although a parcel of land has a specific private owner, some other party or the public at large has a legal right to traverse that land in some specified manner. The term likewise refers to the land subject to such a right. An easement is an example.
• Rights of way in the United Kingdom, footpaths, bridleways, byways and roads where such a right exists
• Right-of-way (transportation), a strip of land granted for a rail line, highway, or other transportation facility
• A public right-of-way, a right of way which permits the public to travel over it, such as a street, road, sidewalk, or footpath.

In transportation:

• Traffic: Priority/right of way, the concept whereby one road user has the right of use of a section of road to the exclusion of another road user with a competing claim
• International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea: Section II (for vessels in sight of one another), for ships
• Visual flight rules, for aircraft

Other:

• In fencing, priority granted to the first person to properly execute an attack
• Right of Way (album), a musical album by Ferry Corsten
• Legal requirement to obtain permission from the property holder before access is granted (eg: installing telecommunications cable)