Bosnia and Herzegovina | Area code 387 | Common abbreviation SRB | Last updated 7-12-2008 | |||
| Road class | Syntax explanation | Administrative subordination | Sub classes | Zones | System | Remarks |
| European road | E[0-9]<2-3> | Europe | See Europe | |||
| Motorway | A[12] | national | grid | |||
| Main road | M[0-9]<1-2>{-[0-9]<1-2>} | national | grid | |||
| Local road | R4[0-9]<2>{A} | national | determined by first digit | |||
| General description:
Motorways have numbers A1 and A2, which were introduced around 2005. Only a few small sections of the A1 are open to traffic. Main roads with 1-d numbers generally run east-west (northwest-southeast) and 2-d numbers indicate north-south (northeast-southwest) routes. 2-d numbers increase to the east. The grid is not strict. Local roads hardly ever appear on maps but they are on signs. Zones correspond to the former Yugoslav republics, with zone 4 being Bosnia and Herzegovina. | ||||||
| Road signs: | ||||||
| Road/destination type | Background | Text | Road numbers | |||
| Class | Shape | Background | Text | |||
| Motorways | Green | White | A | Rectangle | Green | White |
| Along motorways, references to other roads appear in white patches with white text, but M numbers appear as usual in white on blue | ||||||
| Main roads | Blue | White | M | Rectangle | Blue | White |
| Local roads | Yellow | Black | R | Rectangle | Yellow | Black |
| Local destinations | White | Black | ||||
| On old signs, M numbers are sometimes indicated in black on yellow signs, and references to other roads along motorways can also appear in black on yellow. | ||||||
| History:
Bosnia and Hercegovina still has a road numbering system together with Serbia and Montenegro, which is basically the old Yugoslav system. Recently motorway numbers were introduced.
The current system was introduced around 1980, but with letter suffixes instead of digits. Around 1985 this was changed. Sometimes the suffix was replaced by its corresponding ordinal number (e.g., M2b became M2-2), but not always (M1h became M1-12). When Yugoslavia was split in the early 1990's, Slovenia, Croatia and Macedonia introduced their own road numbering systems. Road numbers used to be indicated with a dash (e.g. M-17), but on new signs, it seems that the dash is omitted. | ||||||
Sources and links: various maps and atlases and websites
Official links: | ||||||