The
Sredanci interchange is a
cloverleaf interchangeA cloverleaf interchange is a two-level interchange in which left turns, reverse direction in left-driving regions, are handled by ramp roads...
west of
Slavonski BrodSlavonski Brod is a city in Croatia, with a population of 59,507 in 2011. The city was known as Marsonia in the Roman Empire, and as Brod na Savi 1244–1934. It is the sixth largest city in Croatia, after Zagreb, Split, Rijeka, Osijek and Zadar. Located in the region of Slavonia, it is the...
,
CroatiaCroatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...
. It is named after nearby village of
SredanciSredanci is a place in the Donji Andrijevci municipality of the Brod-Posavina County in Croatia. The population is 323. Highways A3 and A5 intersect near the place, giving name to the Sredanci interchange....
. As of September 2011, the interchange represents the southern terminus of the
A5 motorwayThe A5 motorway is a motorway in Croatia spanning . It connects Osijek, the largest city in Slavonia region, to the Croatian motorway network at the Sredanci interchange of the A3 motorway. The A5 represents a significant north–south transportation corridor in Croatia and is a part of the...
and it connects the A5 route to the
A3 motorwayThe A3 motorway is a major motorway in Croatia spanning . The motorway connects Zagreb, the nation's capital, to the Slavonia region and a number of cities along the Sava River. It represents a major east–west transportation corridor in Croatia and a significant part of the Pan-European Corridor...
facilitating a link between the city of
OsijekOsijek is the fourth largest city in Croatia with a population of 83,496 in 2011. It is the largest city and the economic and cultural centre of the eastern Croatian region of Slavonia, as well as the administrative centre of Osijek-Baranja county...
and the remainder of the Croatian motorway system. The interchange is a part of
Pan-European corridors Vc and XThe ten Pan-European transport corridors were defined at the second Pan-European transport Conference in Crete, March 1994, as routes in Central and Eastern Europe that required major investment over the next ten to fifteen years. Additions were made at the third conference in Helsinki in 1997...
. It also represents a junction of European routes
E70European route E 70 is an A-Class West-East European route, extending from A Coruña in Spain in the west to the Georgian city of Poti in the east.-Itinerary:...
and E73.
Even though the interchange itself is complete, as of September 2011, an A5 motorway section to the south of the interchange is missing therefore the interchange operates as a partial cloverleaf. The section is scheduled to be built by 2014, when full functionality of the interchange is to be achieved. There are no exits from the motorway system available at the interchange, thereby allowing the A3 and A5 motorways to have an integrated toll collection system, joined at the Sredanci interchange.
See also
- International E-road network
The international E-road network is a numbering system for roads in Europe developed by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe . The network is numbered from E 1 up and its roads cross national borders...
- Transport in Croatia
Transport in Croatia relies on several main modes, including transport by road, rail, water and air. Road transport incorporates a comprehensive network of state, county and local routes augmented by a network of highways for long-distance travelling...