Roads in Serbia

Serbian motorway network. Legend of sections:

  finished

  under construction

  planned

Roads in Serbia are the backbone of its transportation system and constitute important transit roads in Europe. Total length of roads in the country is 40,845 km, of which 1,372 km are "class 1a-state roads" (i.e. major national roads, including some 706.86 km of motorways); 4,153 km are "class 1b-state roads"; 11,540 km are "class 2-state roads" (regional roads) and 23,780 km are "municipal roads" (local roads).^[1][2]They are categorized as: state highways, class I; state highways, class II; local roads; municipal roads.^[3]

State highways, class Ia

Roads that are motorways or will be replaced with motorways in future are categorized as state highways, class Ia and are marked with one-digit numbers. As of 2016, there are 706.86 km of motorways (Serbian: Аутопут, Autoput) in total. Motorways in Serbia have three lanes (including emergency lane) in each direction, signs are white-on-green, and the normal speed limit is 120 km/h.

A1 motorway near Inđija

Town sign at the entrance in Belgrade, on the A1 motorway

As the Serbian word for motorway is "autoput", the "A1", "A2" or "A3" road designations are used since 2013.^[4]

Since 2004, motorways network have been under constant expansion in Serbia. There are currently 241 kilometers of motorways under construction which are all due to be completed by 2017: two sections 40 km-long of the A1 motorway (from south of Leskovac to Bujanovac), 102 km-long segment of A2 (between Obrenovac and Čačak), and 70 kilometers on the A4 (east of Niš to the Bulgarian border).^[5] Work on the construction of the remaining part of A2 (18 km-long sections Belgrade-Obrenovac) is set to commence in 2016 and be completed by 2019.

Yearly expansion figures:

• 2004: 33 km
• 2005: 23 km
• 2006: 33 km
• 2009: 20 km
• 2010: 5 km
• 2011: 88 km
• 2012: 6 km
• 2013: 29 km
• 2014: 12 km
• 2015: 26 km

State highways, class Ib

Major roads that won't be replaced with motorways in future are categorized as state highways, class Ib. They have one lane at the each direction, marked with two-digit numbers, signs are black-on-yellow and the normal speed limit is 80 km/h.

Some of these roads are or will be partially expressways (Serbian: Брзи пут, Brzi put), such as 24 km-long stretch of State highway 24 between Kragujevac and Batočina and planned upgrade of the section 27 km-long of State highway 21 between Novi Sad and Ruma. Expressways, unlike motorways, don't have emergency lanes, signs are white-on-blue and the normal speed limit is 100 km/h.

State highways, class II

State highways, class II, are marked with three-digit numbers.

State highways, class IIa

State highways, class IIb

European routes

The following European routes pass through Serbia:

• E65: Rožaje, Montenegro – Tutin – Kosovska Mitrovica – Priština – Elez Han – Skopje, Macedonia.
• E70: Slavonski Brod, Croatia – Šid – Belgrade – Vršac – Timișoara, Romania.
  • section from Belgrade to border with Croatia is built to motorway standards.
• E75: Szeged, Hungary – Subotica – Novi Sad – Beška Bridge – Belgrade – Niš – Leskovac – Grdelica – Vranje – Preševo – Kumanovo, Macedonia.
  • section from Grdelica to border with Hungary is built to motorway standards.
• E80: Rožaje, Montenegro – Peć – Priština – Prokuplje – Niš – Niška Banja – Pirot – Dimitrovgrad – Sofia, Bulgaria.
  • section from E75 near Niš to Niška Banja is built to motorway standards.
• E662: Subotica – Sombor – Bezdan – Osijek, Croatia.
• E761: Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina – Užice – Čačak – Kraljevo – Kruševac – Pojate – Paraćin – Zaječar.
  • section between Pojate and Paraćin is built to motorway standards and co-signed with E75.
• E763: Belgrade – Čačak – Nova Varoš – Bijelo Polje, Montenegro.
• E771: Drobeta-Turnu Severin, Romania – Zaječar – Niš.

Notes

References

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External links

• Putevi Srbije