Roads in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Roads in Bosnia and Herzegovina are the most important traffic branch in Bosnia and Herzegovina and an important part of the European road network. Roads are built, maintained and supervised by companies run by the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republika Srpska. The total length of roads in the country as of 2020 is 9,110 km (5,660 mi), and they are categorized as motorways (total length of 218 km (135 mi)), main (total length of 4,237 km (2,633 mi)) and regional (total length of 4,655 km (2,892 mi)).[1]
Motorways[edit]
The primary high-speed motorways are called autoceste or autoputevi/аутопутеви, public road specially built and intended exclusively for motor vehicle traffic, which is marked as a motorway with a prescribed traffic sign, has two physically separated lanes for traffic from opposite directions with at least two lanes and a lane for forced stopping of vehicles, without intersection with transverse roads and railways or tramways at the same level and in whose traffic it can be included or excluded only by a certain and specially built connecting public road to the appropriate lane of the motorway. They are marked with a special road sign, similar to the road sign depicting a motorway/autoroute/autobahn in other parts of Europe. Motorways in Bosnia and Herzegovina are defined by the Ministry of Traffic and Communications of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Ministry of Transport and Communications of Republika Srpska.[2][3]
The Bosnian-Herzegovinian motorway network is 233.4 km (145.0 mi) long as of 2022.
Motorways and sections[edit]
| Motorway | Route | Length (in 2023) |
Description | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A1 | Croatian border - Odžak - Doboj - Zenica - Sarajevo - Mostar - Croatian border | 127.5 km (79.2 mi) | The A1 starts on border of Croatia near Svilaj and runs south to Odžak where it ends right next to the entity border. The only part of the highway that passes through Republika Srpska starts at the Johovac junction, with a crossing towards the Banja Luka - Doboj Highway, and ends at the Rudanka junction. The motorway continues north of Zenica, which also serves as a bypass, and passes west of Sarajevo, with which the bypass is directly connected. The end of the middle part is in Bradina. South part starts at Međugorje and ends on border with Croatia near Bijača. The motorway follows the Vc corridor along the entire route.[4][5] | Several sections are under constructions or planned to connect four separate parts. |
| Autoput Gradiška - Banja Luka | Gradiška - Laktaši - Banja Luka | 33.7 km (20.9 mi) | The Motorway Gradiška - Banja Luka starts on border of Croatia near Gradiška and follows a route of E661. The highway passes through the Laktaši interchange with the highway towards Doboj, after which it ends north of Banja Luka.[6] | |
| Autoput Banja Luka - Doboj | Laktaši - Prnjavor - Doboj | 72.2 km (44.9 mi) | The route of Motorway Banja Luka - Doboj starts at Laktaši interchange after which goes beside Prnjavor and ends in Johovac junction connecting A1. Also known as: Motorway of January 9th.[7] |
Motorway sections under construction[edit]
| Motorway | Entity | Length[8][9] | Section | Description | Scheduled completion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A1 | FBiH | 8.5 km (5.3 mi) | Putnikovo brdo - Medakovo | Six bridges, one cut&cover tunnel, five underpasses, one overpass, seven hydrotechnical facilities, two interchanges and a center for maintenance and traffic control on the highway.[10] | End of 2025[11] |
| 21.3 km (13.2 mi) | Medakovo - Ozimica | One interchange, two double-sided rest stops, eight bridges and viaducts, two overpasses, fifteen underpasses and the 2.200-kilometer long Crni vrh tunnel.[12] | February 2026[13] | ||
| 5.5 km (3.4 mi) | Poprikuše - Nemila | The 3.659-kilometer long Golubinja tunnel, two bridges, two viaducts, the Poprikuša interchange and the Traffic Control Center will be built.[14] The section will be open with neighboring sections.[15] | End of 2025[16] | ||
| 5.7 km (3.5 mi) | Nemila - Vranduk | Viaduct, underpasses under the highway, relocation of the main road M-17 in the length of 3.6 km and regulation of the riverbed of the river Bosna in the length of 3 km. The section will be open with neighboring sections.[15] | |||
| 5.3 km (3.3 mi) | Vranduk - Ponirak | One tunnel, two bridges, three viaducts.[17] The section will be open with neighboring sections.[15] | March 2026[18] | ||
| 3.5 km (2.2 mi) | Ponirak - Vraca | The 2.475-kilometer Zenica tunnel.[19] The section will be open with neighboring sections.[15] | End of 2025[16] | ||
| 7.2 km (4.5 mi) | Buna - Počitelj | The section is completed but it will be open with section Počitelj - Zvirovići. | Mid-2021[2] | ||
| 11.1 km (6.9 mi) | Počitelj - Zvirovići | One bridge.[20] | April 2024[21] | ||
| RS | 5.3 km (3.3 mi) | Rudanka - Putnikovo brdo 2 | Two tunnels and one bridge.[22] | End of 2024[22][23] | |
| Autoput Banja Luka - Novi Grad | 18.7 km (11.6 mi) | Banja Luka - Prijedor | 23 overpasses, ten underpasses, nine bridges.[24] | Spring 2026[24][25] | |
| Autoput Vukosavlje - Rača |
20.0 km (12.4 mi) | Bijeljina - Rača | September 2025[26] | ||
| RS Brčko |
33.0 km (20.5 mi) | Vukosavlje - Brčko | August 2025[27] |
Planned motorway sections[edit]
| Motorway | Entity | Length | Section | Notes[8][9][28] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jadransko–jonska autocesta | FBiH | 23.3 km (14.5 mi) | Počitelj - Stolac | Project in public exhibition[29] |
| A2 | 30.3 km (18.8 mi) | Orašje - Brčko - Maoča | Concept project completed[30] | |
| 23.3 km (14.5 mi) | Maoča - Tuzla | The conceptual project is being developed[31] | ||
| A3 | 55.4 km (34.4 mi) | Tuzla - Žepče | Concept project completed[30] | |
| A1 | 12.8 km (8.0 mi) | Ozimica - Poprikuše | Tender procedure in progress[32] | |
| 10.7 km (6.6 mi) | Ivan - Ovčari | Preparatory activities for construction in progress | ||
| 10.1 km (6.3 mi) | Ovčari - Konjic - Prenj tunnel | Preparatory activities for construction in progress | ||
| 12.4 km (7.7 mi) | Prenj tunnel | Tender procedure in progress; Construction start in mid-2023[33] | ||
| 12.4 km (7.7 mi) | Prenj - Mostar north | Preparatory activities for construction in progress | ||
| 14.2 km (8.8 mi) | Mostar north - Mostar south | Tender procedure in progress; Construction start in mid-2023[33] | ||
| 9.2 km (5.7 mi) | Mostar south - Kvanj tunnel | Tender procedure in progress; Construction start in the first half of 2024[34] | ||
| 5.2 km (3.2 mi) | Kvanj tunnel - Buna | Tender procedure in progress | ||
| RS | 35.2 km (21.9 mi) | Johovac - Orašje | Tender procedure in progress[35] | |
| Autoput Banja Luka - Novi Grad | 23.5 km (14.6 mi) | Prijedor - Novi Grad | The preparation of the general project for the selection of the route is underway[25] | |
| Autoput Banja Luka - Mliništa | 95.0 km (59.0 mi) | Banja Luka - Mlinište | There are no detailed plans, just an announcement | |
| Autoput Vukosavlje - Rača | Brčko RS |
17.0 km (10.6 mi) | Brčko - Bijeljina | Construction contract signed[36] |
Expressways[edit]
Currently there is no expressways in use, but several are under construction and most of them are being designed.
List of planned expressways:[8][37][30][38]
| Entity | Route | Total length | Section | Length | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FBiH | Prača - Goražde | 18.4 km (11.4 mi) | M5 - Hranjen tunnel | 2.7 km (1.7 mi) | Main project completed |
| Hranjen tunnel | 5.8 km (3.6 mi) | Under construction | |||
| Hranjen tunnel - Pobjeda | 5.3 km (3.3 mi) | Main project completed | |||
| Pobjeda - Sopotnica | 4.6 km (2.9 mi) | Main project completed | |||
| Bihać - Cazin - Velika Kladuša - border crossing (Croatia) | 45.4 km (28.2 mi) | Bihać - Ćoralići | 18.0 km (11.2 mi) | The tender procedure for the preparation of the main Project is underway | |
| Ćoralići - border crossing | 27.4 km (17.0 mi) | The conceptual project is being developed | |||
| Izačić - Bihać - Ključ | 106.4 km (66.1 mi) | Izačić - Gorjevac | TBD | The conceptual project has been completed | |
| Gorjevac - Bravsko | |||||
| Bravsko - Ključ | |||||
| Mostar north - Široki Brijeg - border crossing (Croatia) | 60.7 km (37.7 mi) | Mostar north - Vihovići | 11.6 km (7.2 mi) | The conceptual project is being developed | |
| Vihovići - Polog | 8.7 km (5.4 mi) | ||||
| Polog - Polugno | 15.8 km (9.8 mi) | Main project completed and the expropriation procedure is in progress.[39] | |||
| Polugno - border crossing | 24.6 km (15.3 mi) | ||||
| Lašva - Travnik - Jajce | 67.2 km (41.8 mi) | Lašva - Kaonik | 5.83 km (3.62 mi) | The main project needs to be revised | |
| Kaonik - Selište | 4.4 km (2.7 mi) | ||||
| Selište - interchange Vitez | 3.78 km (2.35 mi) | ||||
| interchange Vitez - exit from business zone Vitez | 5.0 km (3.1 mi) | The conceptual project is being developed | |||
| exit from business zone Vitez - Nević Polje | 4.8 km (3.0 mi) | Under construction | |||
| Nević Polje - Turbe | 10.8 km (6.7 mi) | The development of the main project is underway | |||
| Turbe - Jajce | 30.6 km (19.0 mi) | The conceptual project is being developed | |||
| Sarajevo bypass | 1.44 km (0.89 mi) | Lot 3B | 1.44 km (0.89 mi) | Under construction | |
| Turbe - Bugojno - Kupres - Livno - border crossing (Croatia) | 135.0 km (83.9 mi) | ||||
| Doboj - Šićki Brod | 45.0 km (28.0 mi) | In 2024, it is planned to produce study project documentation up to the conceptual design level. | |||
| Šićki Brod - Kalesija | 35.0 km (21.7 mi) | A tender for conceptual solutions has been announced[40] | |||
| RS | Prijedor - Kozarska Dubica | — | |||
| Kotor Varoš - Čelinac - Banja Luka | |||||
| Sarajevo - Sokolac - Višegrad | |||||
| Stolac - Ljubinje - Trebinje - border crossing (Montenegro) | |||||
| Bijeljina - Zvornik - Foča - Trebinje |
See also[edit]
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