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").

  In service

  Under construction

  Planned

As of May 2024, there are 1,072 km (666 mi) of motorways in service (excluding Kosovo).^[1]

List of motorways

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]

Sign	Route (in use)			In service	Planned
	From	Via	To
	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)
	Belgrade	Surcin - Obrenovac - Lajkovac - Ljig - Gornji Milanovac - Preljina - Čačak	Boljare	131.3 km (81.6 mi)	258 km (160 mi)
	Border with Croatia (Batrovci border crossing)	Sremska Mitrovica - Ruma	Belgrade ( )	95.4 km (59.3 mi)	95.4 km (59.3 mi)
	Niš ( )	Pirot - Dimitrovgrad	border with Bulgaria (Gradina border crossing)	105.4 km (65.5 mi)	105.4 km (65.5 mi)
	Pojate ( )	Kruševac - Trstenik - Vrnjačka Banja - Kraljevo	Preljina ( )	27.6 km (17.1 mi)	112.4 km (69.8 mi)
	Novi Sad	Zrenjanin	Belgrade	0 km (0 mi)	89.5 km (55.6 mi)
	Kuzmin ( )	Bosut	Border with Bosnia and Herzegovina near Sremska Rača	0 km (0 mi)	18 km (11 mi)
	Ruma ( )	Hrtkovci	Šabac	22.1 km (13.7 mi)	22.1 km (13.7 mi)
	Bubanj Potok ( )	Pančevo	Border with Romania near Vatin	0 km (0 mi)	65 km (40 mi)
	Požega ( )	Užice	Border with Bosnia and Herzegovina near Kotroman	0 km (0 mi)	61 km (38 mi)
	Pančevo ( )	Borča	Batajnica ( )	0 km (0 mi)	unknown
	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)

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.

A1 motorway at Inđija interchange

A2 motorway

Main article: A2 motorway (Serbia)

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

Main article: A3 motorway (Serbia)

A3 is runs from Batrovci border crossing with Croatia, passing Sremska Mitrovica and Ruma and ends at Dobanovci interchange near Belgrade.

A4 motorway

Main article: A4 motorway (Serbia)

A4 is a motorway that connects the A1 motorway near Niš to Gradina border crossing with Bulgaria, part of European route E80.

A5 motorway

Main article: A5 motorway (Serbia)

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.^[4]

A8 motorway

Main article: A8 motorway (Serbia)

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

Designation	Route	Planned length
N/A	Lajkovac (A2 interchange) - Aranđelovac - Markovac (A1 interchange) - Svilajnac - Bor	270 km (170 mi)[5]
	Belgrade - Zrenjanin - Novi Sad (A1 interchange)	113 km (70 mi)
Total		422 km (262 mi)

Network expansion

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);^[4] a 39 km (24 mi)-long segment of A2 (between Čačak and Požega);^[6][7] an 18 km (11 mi) section between Kuzmin and Sremska Rača.^[8]

See also

• Transport in Serbia
• List of controlled-access highway systems
• Evolution of motorway construction in European nations

References

1. "About Us". Road of Serbia. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
2. "List of state roads" (PDF). Retrieved 17 February 2021.
3. 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.
4. 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)
5. "Serbia to get more than 200 kilometers of new highway, minister says". 20 August 2019.
6. "Potpisan komercijalni ugovor za auto-put Preljina–Požega". Radio Television of Serbia (in Serbian). 27 November 2017. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
7. "Serbia to invest 800 MLN euro in Morava Corridor motorway project". SeeNews.
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.

External links

• Regulation of State Roads