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Motorways in Serbia are called autoput (Serbian Cyrillic: аутопут), a name which simply means auto road.
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The system has inherited much from the former Yugoslavia. Pay-tolls (putarine) remain in place and the speed limit is 120 km/h (75 mph).
The highways were originally marked with yellow-colour hard shoulder lines and some of these remain in place, they are, however, slowly being phased out and replaced with white. The motorway roadsigns maintain their green colour background, a feature shared with Switzerland, Italy, Denmark, Sweden, Greece, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and the United States as well as the other former Yugoslav republics. The roads are on the whole straight with good surfacing, and better maintained than the national roads.
List of motorways
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 2017, there are 717.86 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.
As the Serbian word for motorway is "autoput", the "A1", "A2", "A3", "A4" or "A5" road designations are used since 2013.
The A1 motorway runs from the Horgoš border crossing with Hungary (for Röszke), passing Belgrade (A3 and A2 junction), Kruševac (A5 junction), Niš (A4 junction), and continues to the main border crossing with the Republic of Macedonia, Preševo-Tabanovce near Bujanovac.
The large part of this express route was built whilst Serbia was a part of the SFR Yugoslavia. Motorway A1 is part of European route E75.
The A2 motorway is a motorway under construction that will connect Belgrade with Požega. The route passes Obrenovac and Čačak. A2 is planned to be turned into a motorway with 4 lanes by 2016.
The A3 motorway is the only completed motorway in Serbia, that links Croatia with Belgrade.
The A4 motorway is a motorway under construction that will connect the A1 motorway to Bulgaria, part of European route E80.
The A5 motorway is a planned motorway that will connect A1 with A2. The route passes Kruševac and Kraljevo.
Expansion figures
Since 2004, motorways network have been under constant expansion in Serbia. There are currently 241 kilometers of motorways under construction which are were 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). Work on the construction of the remaining part of A2 (18 km-long sections Belgrade-Obrenovac) is set to commence in 2017 and be completed by 2019.
Motorways annual expansion figures from 2004: