THE OBJECTIVES OF THIS RESEARCH

• Finding and recording the remains of the ancient roads recorded on the "Monument of Roads" at Patara
  
• Classifying the roads according to their characteristic features
• Investigating the connections of roads recorded on the Stadiasmus Patarensis to those roads unmentioned in the Stadiasmus Patarensis and comparing them and investigation their relations
  
• Comparing the measurements recorded on the Monument of Roads to the actual distance
• Finding the Roman milestones, which are important in terms of determining the routes, and comparing the data on these to that recorded on the "Monument of Roads" at Patara
  
• Evaluating the evidence concerning graves, mansiones, mutationes and other road-related buildings that can provide indications to the course of roads.
• Localizing those named places that are documented in literary or epigraphic sources with indications of the settlements on the ground
  
• Determining differences between those settlements mentioned and unmentioned in the "Monument of Roads" at Patara and their relative political status
• Attampting to determine the economic and social changes that might have resulted from road construction, re-construction and renovation
• Publishing the results of this research in both reports and academic articles