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Description

The Brenner Corridor links Munich / Rosenheim (Germany) with Innsbruck (Austria) and Verona (Italy), and functions as a major north-south transalpine axis for transit and holiday traffic. The route comprises the A93 (South) in Germany, the A12 Inntal motorway and A13 Brenner motorway in Austria, and the A22 Autostrada del Brennero in Italy.

  • Length of the Inntal-Verona stretch of motorway: 362 km
  • Germany: Length of stretch from Inntal junction to border (Germany/Austria): 25 kilometres
  • Austria: Length of stretch from border (Germany/Austria) to border (Austria/Italy):109 kilometres
  • Italy: Length of stretch from national border (Austria/Italy) to Verona: 225 kilometres

Germany:

A93 Inntal junction to Kiefersfelden (Germany)

Austria:

  • No. of tunnels: 4
  • Total length of tunnels: approx. 2.4 kilometres
  • Longest tunnel: Schönberg, 884 metres
  • No. of bridges: 197
  • Total length of bridges: approx. 18.5 kilometres
  • Longest bridge: Lueg, 1,110 metres
  • Maximum incline/decline: 6%

Most important bridges:

 

Europa

Schönberg-Matrei suspension bridges

Lueg

Length

820 m

total 2,107 m

1,110 m

No. of lanes in each direction

3

2

2

Maximum height

190 m

 

 

 

Europa Bridge, A13 Brenner motorway

 

Road traffic and other authorities

Germany:

Relevant authority:
Autobahndirektion Südbayern (ABDS)     
P. O. Box 20 01 31
80001 Munich
Phone no.: 0049 (0)89 54552-0
E-mail: poststelle@abdsb.bayern.de

Regional traffic management centre:
Polizeipräsidium Oberbayern Süd
Verkehrsmeldestelle Bayern (VMS BY)
Kaiserstrasse 32
83022 Rosenheim
Phone no.: 0049 (0)8031 200 1285 (24-hour service)
E-mail: pp-obs.pp.vms@remove-this.polizei.bayern.de

Bavarian traffic information bureau: e-mail: www.bayerninfo.de

Austria:

Relevant authority:
Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology

Operator:
ASFINAG (Autobahnen- und Schnellstraßen-Finanzierungs-AG)

ASFINAG Service Centre:
0800 400 12 400 (freephone from Austria, Germany, Switzerland)
+43 (0)1 955 12 66 (charges apply to calls from all other countries)
E-mail: info@remove-this.asfinag.at

Italy:

Autostrada del Brennero S.p.A.
http://www.autobrennero.it

CCISS (Centro Coordinamento delle Informazioni sul traffico, sulla viabilità e sulla Sicurezza Stradale) (coordination centre for information about traffic, road network and road safety)
www.cciss.it

Traffic management

On the A8 (East) in Germany, dynamic signs with integrated traffic jam information have been in use since the first half of 2010 on the southbound approach to the Inntal A8/A93 motorway junction at Rosenheim. With these electronic signs it is possible to program and display a broad range of changeable traffic information, including warnings of traffic jams. This means that it is already possible to warn road users in Germany about traffic jams that occur on the southbound Brenner and/or Tauern routes, and where necessary to recommend an alternative route. This system is based on a Brenner/Tauern traffic management plan that was agreed between Bavaria, Austria and Italy and introduced on 2 July 2010 (Az. OBB/IID4-43642). For more detailed information, please refer to the traffic management plan.

Alternative stretches between Bavaria and Austria

  • Dynamic integrated signs on the approach to the Inntal junction:  A93-A12/ A8-A10 (cf. Brenner/Tauern traffic management centre)
  • Memmingen motorway junction: Lindau: A96/ Füssen A7 to Vils U71-U32 stretch
  • A8 East: Bad Reichenhall to Freilassing (U95)
  • A8 East: Traunstein/Siegsdorf stretch to B306-B304-B20 to Freilassing (relief stretch)
  • Kleines Deutsches Eck A8 East: Bad Reichenhall-Schneizlreuth-Austria (not for heavy vehicles)
  • A8 East: Holzkirchen-Achenpass-Innsbruck-A93 South (not for heavy vehicles)