Autostrada A22 (Italy)
Template: Infobox trunk road / Maintenance / IT-A
Regions:
- Trentino -Alto Adige
- Veneto
- Lombardy
- Emilia -Romagna
(Only exit and entrance Südspur north track)
- In construction
- In planning
The A22 motorway (Italian: Autostrada A22 ), also Brenner motorway (Italian Autostrada del Brenner ) called, is an Italian highway and leads from the Brenner Pass on the Italian- Austrian border through the Eisack and the Adige Valley in South Tyrol and the Trentino to Verona and continue to Modena, where it flows into the A1. A total of 314 kilometers long, it continues the Austrian Brenner motorway A13 and thus forms the most important alpine -border transport axis between Germany and Italy.
Is operated by the Italian Brenner motorway from the Brenner Autostrada del SpA / Brenner motorway AG (based in Trento ), which is why a distance-based toll is levied on all vehicles.
- 5.1 Removing Verona - Modena
- 5.2 Extension of the motorway to Sassuolo
Route and rest stops
The Brenner motorway starts at the Brenner Pass, where it connects to the Austrian A13. The highway leading south initially to Sterzing before it changes its direction to south-east and reached Brixen. Here it meets the feeder road SS 49 from the Pusteria and Brunico. Then she leads southwest and reached Bolzano. Here ends the shuttle from Merano in the highway. Continue south through the Adige Valley it enters the Trentino, passing the cities of Trento and Rovereto. In the vicinity of Lake Garda it reaches the Veneto region and the city of Verona. Here it intersects with the A4 and then continues south to Lombardy, passing the city of Mantua. Here they crossed the Po.
Finally they reached the Emilia- Romagna region and the towns of Carpi and Modena over, she meets the A1, in which she opens.
Along the Brenner motorway are currently 22 service areas (11 per carriageway ) plus a truck stop near Sterzing (Ex Sadobre ), which is accessible from both carriageways from. Due to the age and the increasing volume of traffic, this step should be overtaken by step, refurbished and expanded. It started here at the beginning of the year 2013 with rest facilities Paganella East and East free field. At the former customs building at the Brenner Pass also opened early 2013, another truck stop, but without gas station.
History
On the A22 Brenner exceeds the main Alpine ridge in about 1375 meters above sea level. This makes it the lowest transition of the Central Alps, which has been shown to actively used since the Bronze Age. The Romans built the route for a military road from ( Via Claudia Augusta and Via Raetia ). Since 1919, the burner forms the border between Italy and Austria.
The construction of the A22 began in 1963. On 21 December 1968 the first section of motorway in the Adige Valley from Bolzano to Trento was released with a length of about 50 km to traffic. In the same period, the motorway section Brennersee -Matrei was inaugurated in Austria.
With the release of the section Grasstein - Varna on 27 July 1972, the highway was from Brenner to Klausen (54 km) and from Bolzano to Modena (228 km) passable. On the Austrian side the Inn valley motorway ( A12) was founded in 1972 as prepared and ready to connect to the German motorway network to Kufstein. Since then fulfilled - as provided for in the Geneva Convention of 1950 - the Brenner Motorway its function as a major thoroughfare in Europe.
On April 11, 1974, the last section Klausen- Bozen Süd was opened. This section includes a series of technically sophisticated buildings such as bridges, viaducts and tunnels.
Until the early 1990s in both directions between the toll burner and the border no descent on the Italian side was possible. To get to the border town of Brenner place, you had to either take the high road from the junction Sterzing or leave at the exit " Brennersee " on the Austrian side of the highway.
The noted junction Pontigl only permitted the exit to the north, a driveway is not provided. About the junction Brennerbad can pass to the south on the A22 coming from the border, a departure is not possible. The departure Brennerort allows no ramp to the highway.
On 3 January 2007, the exit Brixen - industrial area was opened to relieve the town of Brixen from heavy traffic. In this, however, the north can be in and out on the freeway just to the south only in direction. It is unlike any other toll booths entirely automated. The latest junction is Trento sud south of the city of Trento (Trento). This was opened on May 3, 2011. As a consequence, for the old junction Trento centro was closed, this is relegated as a driveway.
Dynamic track Neumarkt- Verona Nord
The opening of a third track through the temporary hard shoulder is used to efficiently cope with traffic control spikes that can occur, especially in the holiday periods of the year, because by the third track, the vehicle capacity increases (about 4000-4200 vehicles / hour) and the possibility of traffic congestion reduced. Currently this approach is being tested by the Brenner motorway AG just in an attempt section between Trento and Rovereto Sud Centro on the road heading south.
Motorists are thereby informed of messages to the variable overhead lights: textual information and images point to the motorable tracks and the speed to be maintained limit. After carrying out the necessary checks ( traffic flow, weather conditions and condition of the free to be given section ) the employees of the User Service Center ( CAU) to manually start the procedure, indicating the changes in the traffic lanes.
The section is monitored by video cameras, traffic detection systems and sensors by employees of the highway authority. In addition, traffic patrols are used.
Data
Although the highway reached a high Alpine pass (about 1375 m ), the road grade is minimal: only in the last section Sterzing burner a slope of 3.8 percent is reached, the average gap between the burner and Bolzano is 1.4 percent.
The section from Brenner to Verona is guided to a large extent on bridges or viaducts 101. (30 kilometers of the highway between the burner and Bolzano run on bridges. ) In this Part, the A22 is 24 meters wide and is four lanes out with emergency lanes, each lane has a width of 7.5 meters. To the south of Verona, the highway reaches 33 meters width, since the central strip is here 12 feet wide.
In the mountain region, the curves had to be partly performed close. Between the burner and the Bolzano tightest corners have a radius of curvature of 500 meters, between Bolzano and Modena there are 1000 meters. For this reason applies to Bolzano also through a speed limit of 110 kilometers per hour.
The A22 passes through 29 tunnels. All were built with two tubes, so there is nowhere oncoming traffic. Overall, the construction of tunnels is 12.2 km long.
The highway has to cope with a daily circulation 30000-40000 vehicles. A quarter of these relate to the heavy traffic.
Toll
16 km south of the state border is the tollgate " Sterzing ", which must be passed by all the vehicles to pass over the burner. The highway is - as usual in Italy - a toll road, which calculates the amount of the toll on the distance traveled. An overview can be found on the homepage of the Brenner motorway (see links).
Projects
Expansion Verona - Modena
2009 began the initial planning for the six-lane expansion between Verona and Campo Galliano / Modena, from 2013 they are to be realized. The 91 km long, € 753 million dollar expansion will be divided into 3 building lots.
Contract Section I ( Verona Nord region boundary Veneto / Lombardia) run from 223-246 KM and include a focus on the reconstruction of the motorway junction with the A4. Contract Section II with a length of 38 km (KM 246-284 region boundary Lombardia / Emilia -Romagna) the most extensive section, here the new building and some important interventions on artificial structures are provided, in particular the crossing of the Fissero - Tartaro - Canal and the new of the bridges over the Mincio and Po.
The third contract section with about 30 kilometers ( KM 284-314 ) runs entirely within the territory of the Emilia Romagna region and extends to the motorway junction with the A1 motorway. This contract section contains the complete rebuild of the motorway interchange and the connection of the future motorway section to Sassuolo.
Extension of the highway to Sassuolo
Furthermore, the extension of the A22 south of Campo Galliano planned to Sassuolo. The project was approved by ANAS in 2005. When to begin with the construction until now is not known.
The work includes a motorway-like path with a length of about 15 km, connecting the A22, A1 and the SS 467 Reggio Emilia - Pozza. It is planned to connect the ceramic district of Sassuolo and the surrounding communities to the national road network. The project is supported by the Interministerial Committee for Economic Planning ( CIPE ).