As the winter holiday season
approaches, traffic on Autostrade Alto Adriatico's (Upper
AdriaticHighways) network intensifies. It starts already with
the long Immaculate Conception Weekend.
Beginning tomorrow afternoon, Thursday, December 7, increased
and heavy traffic will occur on the A4 highway along the
Venice-Trieste route toward Udine/Trieste. This situation is due
to the combined effect of holidaymakers' departures to mountain
resorts with the opening of the ski season and the return of
commercial vehicles.
According to the forecast, traffic is expected to flow
normally again on December 8, 9, and 10. Due to vacationers
returning home after the Immaculate Conception Weekend on
Monday, December 11, and Tuesday, December 12, vehicular flows
will again be heavy on the A4 highway, but in the direction of
Venice, mainly due to the arrival of articulated trucks from
Northeast Europe.
Traffic bans for heavy vehicles will be in effect from 9 a.m.
to 10 p.m. on Friday 8 and Sunday 10. Provisional data in hand,
from January 1 to November 30, more than 2.5 million more
vehicles were recorded on the Upper Adriatic Highway network
than in the same period last year, with an increase in flows of
+5.79%, compared to 2022. A total of 46 million vehicles have
been recorded so far. Of these, about 33 million (+7.09%) are
light vehicles, and 13 million are articulated vehicles
(+2.61%).
The figure for kilometers traveled on the route UAH is in
charge of is more striking: about 1 billion and 644 million
kilometers traveled by light vehicles and 787 million by heavy
vehicles. Against this increase, overall accidents are down
slightly: 582 this year compared to 584 in the same period in
2022. Accidents with injuries have decreased by 18: 139 in 2023
and 157 in 2022. Fatalities drop dramatically: from 14 in 2022
to 4 this year.
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