road map

noun

|Updated on: 10 Aug 2018

Examples: road map in a Sentence

Definition of road map

1 : a map showing roads especially for automobile travel

2 a : a detailed plan to guide progress toward a goal

b : a detailed explanation

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Examples of road map in a Sentence

Did you bring a road map?
a road map to peace

Recent Examples of road map from the Web

Helping to create that road map will be consultants Paul Culter, a senior planner with Jacobs Engineering; and Wendy Moeller, owner of Compass Point Planning.

— sue kiesewetter, Cincinnati.com, "Find out which parts of Fairfield receiving 'special scrutiny'," 11 July 2018
While different research groups are focusing on different approaches, IEA's technology road map suggests that reducing emissions quickly enough to help meet global climate goals will require a variety of strategies all working together.

— chelsea harvey, Scientific American, "Cement Producers Are Developing a Plan to Reduce CO2 Emissions," 9 July 2018
Related stories from Charlotte Observer Here's what the light rail in Charlotte will look like in 2020 Denver offers a good road map for how Charlotte might pay for its plan.

— steve harrison, charlotteobserver, "After the Blue Line, what’s next? More rail lines – and possibly more taxes | Charlotte Observer," 15 Mar. 2018
The year-long effort involved integrating data from such disparate sources as aerial imagery, road maps, and zoning charts.

— bill gourgey, WIRED, "How Artificial Intelligence Could Prevent Natural Disasters," 10 July 2018
The maps accompanying the reports furnished emigrants with an accurate road map for the journeys that thousands would take west in the 1840s and 1850s.

— johnforristerross, Longreads, "Taming the Great American Desert," 2 July 2018
Oswego Public Works Director Jennifer Hughes recently presented a road map for future improvements on the road, which could possibly see the road widened from two to as many as five lanes.

— linda girardi, Aurora Beacon-News, "Wolf's Crossing Road in Oswego may be widened and include roundabouts," 27 June 2018
The Board of Commissioners is likely to vote on adopting the plan — which is not binding but intended to be used as a sort of road map for future transit development — sometime next month.

— tyler estep, ajc, "Gwinnett’s transit plan now (sort of) includes rail to Gwinnett Place," 26 June 2018
There’s no road map for putting a child back in the arms of their parents, attorneys say.

— dianna m. náñez, azcentral, "Is one lawsuit a path to justice and reunification for separated migrant families?," 23 June 2018

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