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
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]
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.
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 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.
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]