Motorways in Serbia
Motorways in Serbia are called auto-put (Serbian Cyrillic: ауто-пут), a name which simply means car-road. Roads that are motorways are categorized as state roads of IA category and are marked with one or two digit numbers. Motorways in Serbia have three lanes in each direction (including hard shoulder), signs are white-on-green, and the normal speed limit is 130 km/h (81 mph) (since June 2018). They are maintained and operated by the national road operator company JP "Putevi Srbije" ("Roads of Serbia").
As of May 2024, there are 1,072 km (666 mi) of motorways in service (excluding Kosovo).[1]
List of motorways
[edit]As the Serbian word for motorway is "autoput", the "A1", "A2", "A3", "A4" and "A5" road designations are used since 2013.[2] After a revision in October 2023, 4 new motorway signs have been added: "A6", "A7", "A8" and "A9".[3]
As of March 2024, the government of Serbia had passed newly revisioned regulation, adding planned A10, A11, A12, motorway routes. A separate I class 'Expressway' designation, with prefix 'M' (Мотопут/Motoput) had been defined.[4]
| Sign | Route (in use) | In service | Planned | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| From | Via | To | |||
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Border with Hungary (Horgoš border crossing) | Novi Sad - Belgrade - Niš - Vranje | border with North Macedonia (Preševo border crossing) | 583 km (362 mi) | 583 km (362 mi) |
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Belgrade | Surcin - Obrenovac - Lajkovac - Ljig - Gornji Milanovac - Preljina - Čačak | Boljare | 131.3 km (81.6 mi) | 258 km (160 mi) |
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Border with Croatia (Batrovci border crossing) | Sremska Mitrovica - Ruma | Belgrade
( |
95.4 km (59.3 mi) | 95.4 km (59.3 mi) |
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Niš
( |
Pirot - Dimitrovgrad | border with Bulgaria (Gradina border crossing) | 105.4 km (65.5 mi) | 105.4 km (65.5 mi) |
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Pojate
( |
Kruševac - Trstenik - Vrnjačka Banja - Kraljevo | Preljina
( |
27.6 km (17.1 mi) | 112.4 km (69.8 mi) |
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Novi Sad | Zrenjanin | Belgrade | 0 km (0 mi) | 89.5 km (55.6 mi) |
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Kuzmin (   )
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Bosut | Border with Bosnia and Herzegovina near Sremska Rača | 0 km (0 mi) | 18 km (11 mi) |
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Ruma
( |
Hrtkovci | Šabac | 22.1 km (13.7 mi) | 22.1 km (13.7 mi) |
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Bubanj Potok
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Pančevo | Border with Romania near Vatin | 0 km (0 mi) | 65 km (40 mi) |
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Požega
( |
Užice | Border with Bosnia and Herzegovina near Kotroman | 0 km (0 mi) | 61 km (38 mi) |
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Pančevo
( |
Borča | Batajnica
( |
0 km (0 mi) | unknown |
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Niš
( |
Merošina - Prokuplje - Kuršumlija | Merdare | 5.5 km (3.4 mi) | 77 km (48 mi) |
| Total | 970.3 km (602.9 mi) | 1,486.8 km (923.9 mi) | |||
A1 motorway
[edit]A1 runs from the Horgoš border crossing with Hungary near Subotica, passing Novi Sad, Belgrade (A3 and A2 junction), Pojate near Kruševac (A5 junction), Niš (A4 junction), Leskovac and Vranje and eventually ends at the Preševo border crossing with North Macedonia. This motorway is part of European route E75.
A2 motorway
[edit]A2 is a motorway under construction that will link Belgrade with Republika Srpska and Montenegro. The route passes Obrenovac, Čačak, Požega, Užice and ends at Kotroman (at the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina i.e. Republica Srpska), i.e. Arilje, Ivanjica and ends at Boljare (at the border with Montenegro).
As of 2023, the Pakovraće - Požega section is in construction, with Požega - Boljare section in planning.
A3 motorway
[edit]A3 is runs from Batrovci border crossing with Croatia, passing Sremska Mitrovica and Ruma and ends at Dobanovci interchange near Belgrade.
A4 motorway
[edit]A4 is a motorway that connects the A1 motorway near Niš to Gradina border crossing with Bulgaria, part of European route E80.
A5 motorway
[edit]A5 is a motorway under construction that will link A1 with A2. The route starts at Pojate interchange near Ćićevac, passes Kruševac and Kraljevo and ends at Preljina interchange near Čačak. Construction of this stretch started in December 2019.[5]
A8 motorway
[edit]A8 is a motorway that links the A3 motorway with the future Šabac-Loznica expressway. The route starts at the interchange near Ruma, passes Hrtkovci and ends near Šabac.
Planned motorways
[edit]| Designation | Route | Planned length |
|---|---|---|
| N/A | Lajkovac (A2 interchange) - Aranđelovac - Markovac (A1 interchange) - Svilajnac - Bor | 270 km (170 mi)[6] |
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Belgrade - Zrenjanin - Novi Sad (A1 interchange) | 113 km (70 mi) |
| Total | 422 km (262 mi) |
Network expansion
[edit]Over 300 kilometers of new motorways have been constructed in the last decade and an additional 188 kilometres (117 mi) are currently under construction including: A5 motorway (from Pojate to Preljina);[5] a 39 km (24 mi)-long segment of A2 (between Čačak and Požega);[7][8] an 18 km (11 mi) section between Kuzmin and Sremska Rača.[9]
See also
[edit]- Transport in Serbia
- List of controlled-access highway systems
- Evolution of motorway construction in European nations
References
[edit]- ^ "About Us". Road of Serbia. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
- ^ "List of state roads" (PDF). Retrieved 17 February 2021.
- ^ Nastevski, Aleksandar (2023-10-12). "Vlada usvojila uredbu o kategorizaciji državnih puteva i odluku o avio-linijama u javnom interesu". NOVA portal (in Serbian). Retrieved 2023-10-13.
- ^ Uredba DP IA i IM reda 2024
- ^ a b Serbia, RTS, Radio televizija Srbije, Radio Television of. "Почела градња Моравског коридора, од Појата до Прељине 112 километара ауто-пута". www.rts.rs. Retrieved 2019-12-21.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Serbia to get more than 200 kilometers of new highway, minister says". 20 August 2019.
- ^ "Potpisan komercijalni ugovor za auto-put Preljina–Požega". Radio Television of Serbia (in Serbian). 27 November 2017. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
- ^ "Serbia to invest 800 MLN euro in Morava Corridor motorway project". SeeNews.
- ^ SMP (2019-10-08). "Vučić i Erdogan u Sremu: POČETAK RADOVA NA AUTOPUTU KUZMIN – SREMSKA RAČA! | Sremskomitrovački portal" (in Serbian). Retrieved 2019-12-21.
External links
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