Motorways in Serbia

Motorways in Serbia are called autoput (Serbian Cyrillic: аутопут), a name which simply means auto road. Roads that are motorways are categorized as state roads, class Ia and are marked with one-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 (since June 2018). They are maintained and operated by the national road operator company JP "Putevi Srbije" ("Roads of Serbia").

Serbian motorway network:
  In service
  Under construction
  Planned

As of September 2019, there are 962,34 km of motorways in service (excluding Kosovo).[1]

List of motorways

As the Serbian word for motorway is "autoput", the "A1", "A2", "A3", "A4" or "A5" road designations are used since 2013.[2]

Designation Route Planned[3] In service[3]
A1 Border with Hungary near Horgoš - Subotica - Novi Sad - Belgrade (Belgrade bypass) - Niš - Leskovac - Vranje - Border with North Macedonia near Preševo 612 km 612 km
A2 Belgrade (intersection with A1) - Preljina (intersection with A5) near Čačak - Požega - Border with Montenegro near Boljare 270 km 119 km
A3 Belgrade (intersection with A1) - Sremska Mitrovica - Border with Croatia near Batrovci 95 km 95 km
A4 Niš (intersection with A1) - Pirot - Border with Bulgaria near Gradinje 105 km 105 km
A5
 Preljina (intersection with A2) near Čačak - Kraljevo - Kruševac - Pojate (intersection with A1) 110 km 0 km
N/A Lajkovac (intersection with A2) - (Mladenovac (intersection with A1)) - Aranđelovac - Markovac (intersection with A1) - Svilajnac - Bor[4] 270 km 0 km
N/A Belgrade - Zrenjanin - Novi Sad (intersection with A1) 113 km 0 km
N/A Kuzmin (intersection with A3) - Bosut - Border with Bosnia and Herzegovina near Sremska Rača 18 km 0 km
N/A Ruma (intersection with A3) - Hrtkovci - Šabac 21 km 0 km
Total 1,614 km 924 km
The road sign informing the motorists they are travelling on an autoput

A1 motorway
Main article: A1 motorway (Serbia)

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
Main article: A2 motorway (Serbia)

A2 is a motorway under construction that will link Belgrade with Montenegro. The route passes Obrenovac, Čačak, Požega, Arilje, Ivanjica and ends at Boljare (at the border with Montenegro).

As of 2019, the Belgrade - Čačak section is in use.

A3 motorway
Main article: A3 motorway (Serbia)
A1 motorway near Inđija

A3 is a motorway in Serbia, that links Belgrade with Croatia.

A4 motorway
Main article: A4 motorway (Serbia)

A4 is a motorway that connects the A1 motorway to Bulgaria, part of European route E80.

A5 motorway
Main article: A5 motorway (Serbia)

A5 is a planned motorway that will link A1 with A2. The route starts at Čačak, passes Kruševac and Kraljevo and ends near Pojate. Construction of this stretch started in December 2019.[5]

Network expansion

Over 300 kilometers of new motorways have been constructed in the last decade and an additional 181 kilometers are currently under construction including: A5 motorway (from Pojate to Preljina);[5] a 30 km-long segment of A2 (between Čačak and Požega);[6][7] an 18 kilometer section between Kuzmin and Sremska Rača[8] and 21 kilometers between Ruma and Šabac.[9]

See also

References
  1. "О нама". putevi-srbije.rs (in Serbian). Retrieved 22 December 2019.
  2. "Uredba o kategorizaciji državnih puteva". Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia (105). 29 November 2013.
  3. "Reference system". PE "Roads of Serbia". Retrieved 2019-11-18.
  4. http://rs.n1info.com/English/NEWS/a509154/Serbia-to-get-more-than-200-kilometers-of-new-highway-minister-says.html
  5. 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.
  6. "Potpisan komercijalni ugovor za auto-put Preljina–Požega". Radio Television of Serbia (in Serbian). 27 November 2017. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
  7. https://seenews.com/news/serbia-to-invest-800-mln-euro-in-morava-corridor-motorway-project-651609
  8. SMP (2019-10-08). "Vučić i Erdogan u Sremu: POČETAK RADOVA NA AUTOPUTU KUZMIN – SREMSKA RAČA! | Sremskomitrovački portal" (in Serbian). Retrieved 2019-12-21.
  9. Serbia, RTS, Radio televizija Srbije, Radio Television of. "Počela izgradnja auto-puta Ruma–Šabac i brze saobraćajnice od Šapca ka Loznici". www.rts.rs. Retrieved 2019-12-21.
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