A24 (Italy)

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Autostrada A24

Autostrada dei Parchi
Route information
Part of E80
Maintained by ANAS
Length166 km (103 mi)
Existed1969–present
Major junctions
West endRome
Major intersectionsAutostrada GRA Italia.svg GRA in Rome
Autostrada A1 Italia.svg A1 in Tivoli
Autostrada A25 Italia.svg A25 in Tagliacozzo
East endTeramo
Location
CountryItaly
RegionsLazio, Abruzzo
Highway system
  • Roads in Italy
A A23 A A25

The Autostrada A24, or Autostrada dei Parchi ("Parks Motorway") is an autostrada (Italian for "motorway") 166 kilometers (103 mi) long connecting Rome to Teramo.[1] Starting at the Grande Raccordo Anulare (GRA – the Rome orbital motorway), the A24 runs broadly north-east past L'Aquila and through a 10 kilometers (6.2 mi) tunnel under the Gran Sasso before reaching Teramo. Strada dei Parchi S.p.A. currently manages the route. The name "Parks Motorway" comes from the fact that the Maiella National Park, the Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise National Park and the Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga National Park can be reached from this motorway.

It is constructed in an almost completely hilly and mountainous territory with a complex orography. For this reason, the motorway required the adoption of daring civil engineering solutions, with extensive stretches utilising viaducts[1] and 42 tunnels (four of which are longer than 4 kilometers (2.5 mi)) including the double tunnel of the Gran Sasso, whose length (10.174 kilometers (6.322 mi) for the northern tunnel, 10.175 kilometers (6.322 mi) the southern) made it the longest double-tube road tunnel in Europe, as well as the longest road tunnel in Italy entirely in the national territory.

First planned in 1973 to connect Lazio and Abruzzo as well as the Autostrada del Sole and the Autostrada Adriatica, the route currently finishes at Teramo, with the remainder of the distance to the Adriatic Sea still under construction. The highway includes two long tunnels under the Gran Sasso massif (Traforo del Gran Sasso), running roughly on a south west/north east axis, with each tunnel just over 6.3 miles in length. A third tunnel, dug adjacent to the two highway tunnels, houses the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (National Laboratories of the Gran Sasso), the largest underground particle physics laboratory in the world.

Together with the A25, it provides a fast and reliable connection between the capital and the central-eastern regions of the peninsula; previously, the natural subdivision imposed by the highest peaks of the Apennines had made travel between the two seas difficult, slow and treacherous. The A24 reduced the isolation of Abruzzo from the Tyrrhenian regions, and together with the A25 became the main link between the Tyrrhenian and the Adriatic in central Italy. Until its completion, communications took place mainly via Salaria, Flaminia and Tiburtina Valeria. Due to the particular infrastructure in place (viaducts and tunnels), the hilly-mountain environment and necessary maintenance, it has one of the highest tolls of motorways in Italy.

A24, a film company based in the United States, is named after the Autostrada A24. Daniel Katz, the founder of the company, chose this name because he decided to create the company while driving on the A24.[2]

Route

Autostrada A24 near Rome
Autostrada A24 between Borgorose and Tagliacozzo
Autostrada A24 near L'Aquila
Autostrada A24 near Tivoli
Autostrada A24 Italia.svg ROMA - TERAMO
Autostrada dei Parchi
Exit ↓km↓ ↑km↑ Province European Road
AB-Kreuz-grün.svg Italian traffic signs - strada europea 80.svg Grande Raccordo Anulare 0 166 RM
AB-AS-grün.svg Settecamini
Strada Statale 5 Italia.svg Via Tiburtina
7 159 RM E 80
AB-AS-grün.svg Lunghezza 15 151 RM E 80
Italian traffic signs - stazione.svg Toll gate Roma Est 15 151 RM E 80
Italian traffic signs - simbolo area servizio.svg Rest area "Colle del Tasso" 17 149 RM E 80
AB-Kreuz-grün.svg Italian traffic signs - strada europea 45.svg Autostrada A1 Italia.svg Milano - Napoli 18 148 RM E 80
AB-AS-grün.svg Tivoli
Strada Statale 5 Italia.svg Via Tiburtina
20 146 RM E 80
AB-AS-grün.svg Castel Madama 31 135 RM E 80
AB-AS-grün.svg Vicovaro - Mandela 40 126 RM E 80
Italian traffic signs - simbolo area servizio.svg Rest area "Civita" 54 112 AQ E 80
AB-AS-grün.svg Carsoli - Oricola 57 109 AQ E 80
AB-AS-grün.svg Tagliacozzo 68 97 AQ E 80
AB-Kreuz-grün.svg Italian traffic signs - strada europea 80.svg Autostrada A25 Italia.svg Pescara - Chieti
Italian traffic signs - icona foresta.svg Maiella National Park
Italian traffic signs - icona foresta.svg Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise National Park
72 94 RI
AB-AS-grün.svg Valle del Salto
Strada Statale 578 Italia.svg Salto Cicolana - Rieti
75 91 RI
AB-AS-grün.svg Tornimparte
Strada Statale 696 Italia.svg del Parco Regionale Sirente-Velino
Italian traffic signs - icona scuola sci.svg Campo Felice
92 74 AQ
Italian traffic signs - simbolo area servizio.svg Rest area "Valle Aterno" 106 60 AQ
AB-AS-grün.svg L'Aquila Ovest
Strada Statale 80 Italia.svg del Gran Sasso d'Italia - Teramo
Strada Statale 17 Italia.svg dell'Appennino Abruzzese ed Appulo-Sannitico - Antrodoco
108 58 AQ
AB-AS-grün.svg L'Aquila Est
Italian traffic signs - strada extraurbana principale.svg Strada Statale 17ter Italia.svg Tangenziale Est dell'Aquila - Pescara
114 52 AQ
AB-AS-grün.svg Assergi
Italian traffic signs - icona scuola sci.svg Campo Imperatore
Italian traffic signs - icona foresta.svg Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga National Park
117 42 AQ
Italian traffic signs - galleria.svg Traforo del Gran Sasso 118 40 AQ/TE
AB-AS-grün.svg Colledara - San Gabriele
Italian traffic signs - icona chiesa.svg St. Gabriel's shrine
Strada Statale 491 Italia.svg Isola del Gran Sasso d'Italia - Castelli
Italian traffic signs - icona foresta.svg Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga National Park
143 23 TE
Italian traffic signs - stazione.svg Toll gate Teramo 147 11 TE
AB-AS-grün.svg Basciano - Villa Vomano
ex Strada Statale 365 Italia.svg di Bisenti - Bisenti
Strada Statale 81 Italia.svg Piceno-Aprutina - Teramo
Strada Statale 81 Italia.svg Piceno-Aprutina - Chieti
156 10 TE
AB-AS-grün.svg Val Vomano
Strada Statale 150 Italia.svg della Valle del Vomano - Roseto degli Abruzzi
159 7 TE
AB-AS-grün.svg Teramo
Italian traffic signs - strada europea 55.svg Autostrada A14 Italia.svg Bologna - Taranto
166 0 TE

See also

Other Italian roads

References

  1. ^ a b Aloisio, Angelo; Antonacci, Elena; Cirella, Riccardo; Galeota, Dante; Alaggio, Rocco; Fragiacomo, Massimo (2021). "Identification of the Elastic Modulus of Simply-Supported Girders from Dynamic Tests: Method and in Situ Validation". In Milazzo, Alberto; Rizzo, Piervincenzo (eds.). European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring: Special Collection of 2020 Papers. Vol. 1. Springer Nature. pp. 661–673. ISBN 9783030645946.
  2. ^ Baron, Zach (May 9, 2017). "How A24 is Disrupting Hollywood". GQ. Archived from the original on July 22, 2019. Retrieved August 8, 2019.

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