Road Tunnels in Serbia — Complete List by Length

• 15entries listed
• 2.07 kmlongest bore
• 2008–2009openings span
• 9.71 kmtotal length

The record table

How this archive measures: lengths, bores, dates and ordering

How this table is compiled

The three longest entries alone account for 4.71 km of the 9.71 km on this page, which is 48 per cent of the total from 3 of 15 rows. The shorter half of the table totals 2.12 km against 7.59 km for the longer half, from the same number of rows.

Where one of these 15 lengths disagrees with an operator's own figure for Serbia, the table keeps the published value and notes the difference instead of averaging the two. The 15 rows for Serbia are ordered by length, not by date, so the 2009 opening sits well down the table without being any less current.

Roughly 3 of the dated entries opened in this century, which is a rough measure of how much of the network is recent. The captions name 6 distinct places and structures — Presevo, Mokra and Gora among them — and those names are the index into the length tables where each is recorded with its own figure.

Lengths for Serbia are recorded in metres which is how the operators publish them and why the shortest entry here reads as 200 m and not a rounded figure. The longest entry is 10.4 times the shortest and 4.8 times the median, which is the quickest measure of how uneven the table is.

Dates for Serbia refer to opening to traffic, not breakthrough, so the 2008 entry was under construction for some years before that. Laid end to end the entries on this page would run 9.71 km, which is a number with no engineering meaning but a useful sense of the scale of what is catalogued.

Reading the figures

Eighth on the list is Ovcar Banja at 0.43 km, which is where the table stops being about record holders and starts being about ordinary infrastructure. The ten longest average 0.83 km against 0.28 km for everything below them, and that ratio is the clearest thing this table says about the distribution.

Read down the length (m) column, the 15 values run from 200 m to 2 071 m with a midpoint at 430 m; the spread rather than the maximum is what says how uneven this set is. Ventilation and escape provision, not bore length, drive most of the cost on modern road tunnels in Serbia.

The material on this page is held in 11 captions rather than in running text, 81 words of it, each written against the image or row it belongs to by the compiler who put the page together. Many entries in Serbia carry a second figure for the parallel tube, added when the crossing was duplicated.

The table below lists 15 entries with a recorded length, each giving a name, a length in metres and, where documented, the year of opening. A new scheme in Serbia would have to beat 2.07 km to change the head of this table, and that is the figure worth rechecking when one opens.

Second and third place go to Manojle at 1.86 km and Šargan at 0.78 km. 15 of the 15 rows carry an entry in the notes column — 100 per cent of the table — and that column is where the qualifications live: tube counts, closures, boundaries and the reason a figure reads the way it does.