Autostrada A13 (Italy)

Autostrada A13
Autostrada Bologna-Padova
Route information
Maintained by ANAS
Length	116.7 km (72.5 mi)
Existed	1970–present
Major junctions
From	Bologna
To	Padua
Location
Country	Italy
Regions	Veneto, Emilia-Romagna
Highway system
Roads in Italy Autostrade State Regional Provincial Municipal

Autostrada A13 is an Italian motorway which connects Bologna to Padua, passing through Ferrara and Rovigo. It is 116.7 km long. Near the two extremities of the track are situated two of the biggest Italian freight villages, in Bologna and Padua. Snow tyres are compulsory from 15^th November to 15^th April on the whole highway track, according to the Italian directives.

History

The first section of the motorway, from Bologna to Ferrara South, was opened to traffic on 22^nd December 1966.

On 10^th August 1968 the segment from Ferrara South to Ferrara North was opened. On 7^th August 1969 was inaugurated the section from Boara to Padua.

Furthermore, it was the first highway on which has been experimented foggy signage.

In 1964 it was hypotised to lengthen the motorway from Padua to Treviso (another city in Veneto, Italy), and then up to Tarvisio (small village along the borders between Italy, Austria, and Slovenia), but then it never was built.

The highway today

The track begins from the orbital road around Bologna, that connects the three important highways in Bologna: A13 towards Padua, A1 (Milan-Neaples), A14 (Bologna-Taranto). The highway ends in Padua, at the junction with A4 (Turin-Trieste).

The whole way winds in the Pianura Padana and passes through Emilia-Romagna and Veneto. The only uplands in the surroundings are Colli Euganei, famous thermal area with Abano Terme in the middle. In fact, due to this kind of morphological features of the territory the highway crosses, during the winter-like seasons it is often present a great deal of fog, leading to a bad and reduced view.

Its management is assigned to the Italian society Autostrade per l'Italia.

By the exit Ferrara South there is a beltway leading to Porto Garibaldi, a town on the Adriatic Sea, whose first segment (between Ferrara South and the junction with state road SS16) is owned by Autostrade per l'Italia, while from this junction up to SS309 "Romea" it is owned by ANAS. The entire beltway is called Beltway 8 and it is about 49 km long, and nowadays it is free, without any highway toll to be paid, even if in future the Government would be going to build toll booths in order to be accessible only after paying an amount.

Tutor

This motorway has been chosen - alongside with A4 and A14 - so as to experiment new devices (called Safety Tutor) to measure vehicles average speed, working since 2005. Those are metal constructions built on the two sides of the highway and above it. The first tutor, heading Bologna, is situated just before the highway exit for Occhiobello. The second tutor, which calculates the average speed basing on the data collected by the previous one, is located just before the highway exit to Ferrara North, instead.

Track table

Template:Simbolo BOLOGNA - PADOVA
Tipo	Indicazione	↓km↓	↑km↑	Area
Template:Simbolo	Template:Simbolo Template:Simbolo Bologna Borgo Panigale - Bologna Casalecchio Template:Simbolo Bologna-Borgo Panigale Template:Simbolo Template:Simbolo Milano - Firenze Template:Simbolo Template:Simbolo Bologna Fiera - Bologna San Lazzaro - Ancona Template:Simbolo Tangenziale di Bologna	0	116,7	BO
	Bologna Arcoveggio Template:Simbolo Tangenziale di Bologna	0,6	116,1
	Bologna Interporto	7,9	108,8
	Area di servizio "Castel Bentivoglio"	11,7	105
	Altedo	20,5	96,2
	Ferrara sud Template:Simbolo Porto Garibaldi	33,7	83	FE
	Ferrara nord	41,9	74,8
	Area di servizio "Po"	43,4	73,3
	Occhiobello	49,1	67,6	RO
Template:Simbolo	Area di parcheggio "Quattro Vie"	50,3	—
	Villamarzana - Rovigo sud Template:Simbolo Template:Simbolo Transpolesana Template:Simbolo Piovene Rocchette - Badia Polesine	63	53,7
	Area di servizio "Adige"	65,3	51,4
	Rovigo	70,4	46,3
	Boara - Rovigo nord	74,8	41,9	PD
	Monselice	88,6	28,1
	Template:Simbolo Terme Euganee	95	21,7
	Area di servizio "San Pelagio"	98,2	18,5
	Padova sud Template:Simbolo Diramazione Padova sud	101	15
	Padova Template:Simbolo zona industriale	112,4	4,3
Template:Simbolo	Template:Simbolo Template:Simbolo Milano - Venezia	116,7	0