Record-breaking August 1st for Autostrade Alto Adriatico: 213,000 transits in one day

It's a record summer for Autostrade Alto Adriatico which sees traffic on its network increase weekend after weekend Thus, after the 199,000 transits on Friday, June 20th—a month that saw an 8% increase in vehicle traffic compared to a year earlier—and the 211,000 on Friday, July 18th (another month with a 4% increase), here are two new records for the motorway operator in August: on Friday, August 1st, it totaled 213,000 vehicles (an all-time record) and on Saturday, August 9th (the day of the great exodus), a staggering 207,000 transits. Never before in its history has the operator, which also manages the A4 (Venice-Trieste), recorded such a high influx on a Saturday of exodus. But the figure, which marked a 12% increase compared to the same Saturday a year ago, is even more significant considering that, unlike a typical Friday, heavy vehicles do not circulate between 7:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m., and therefore traffic consists almost exclusively of light vehicles, mostly vacationers. The network expansion (a third lane on the A4, adding 40 kilometers in the last five years) and the implementation of technological tools (variable message signs, traffic sensors, electronic toll collection, contactless payment) have helped streamline traffic. Up to 5,000 vehicles per hour can pass on the three lanes (peaks of 3,500 during the traffic exodus between San Giorgio di Nogaro and Palmanova) and this has resulted in fewer hours of traffic jams (225 hours in total in the period from June to July 2019; 152 in 2024; 129 this year).

"We are studying," announced Marco Monaco, President of Autostrade Alto Adriatico, "transit routes, entrances, exits, stops, and destinations to understand how we can build customer loyalty, including through our service areas, to the benefit of the many beautiful areas and thus create further opportunities for economic development."