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Autostrada A24
Autostrada dei Parchi
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The A24 between Borgorose and Tagliacozzo
Route information
Maintained by ANAS
Length166 km (103 mi)
Major junctions
West endRome
East endTeramo
Location
CountryItaly
RegionsLazio, Abruzzo
Highway system
  • Roads in Italy

The Autostrada A24, or Autostrada dei Parchi (“Parks Motorway”), is a motorway 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 km tunnel under the Gran Sasso before reaching Teramo. Strada dei Parchi S.p.A. currently manages the route.

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 km) including the double tunnel of the Gran Sasso, whose length (10.174 km for the northern tunnel, 10.175 km 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, 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

A24 ROMA - TERAMO
Autostrada dei Parchi
Exit↓km↓↑km↑ProvinceEuropean Road
Tangenziale Est Roma--RM
Via di Portonaccio - Casalbertone--RM
Via F. Fiorentini - Via Prenestina--RM
Viale Palmiro Togliatti--RM
Via di Tor Cervara--RM
Grande Raccordo Anulare0166RM
Settecamini7159RM
Lunghezza15151RM
Toll Gate Roma Est15151RM
Rest Area "Colle del Tasso"17149RM
Milano - Napoli 18148RM
Tivoli20146RM
Castel Madama31135RM
Vicovaro - Mandela40126RM
Rest Area "Civita"54112AQ
Carsoli - Oricola57109AQ
Tagliacozzo68xAQ
Pescara - Chieti 7294AQ
Valle del Salto
Rieti		7591AQ
Tornimparte
Campo Felice		 9274AQ
Rest Area "Valle Aterno"10660AQ
L'Aquila Ovest10858AQ
L'Aquila Est11452AQ
Assergi12442AQ
Colledara - San Gabriele14323TE
Toll Gate TeramoTE
Basciano - Villa Vomano15610TE
Val Vomano1597TE
Teramo
Bologna - Taranto		1660TE

See also

References

  1. 1 2 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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