TRIESTE – The Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport has approved Autostrade Alto Adriatico’s €1.895 billion financial plan. The final sign-off now moves to Cipess.
The Mit approval marks a key step in the concessionaire’s plan approval process, following the favourable opinion issued at the end of December by the Transport Regulation Authority. The documents will now be forwarded to the Interministerial Committee for Economic Planning and Sustainable Development (Cipess) for final approval.
The plan covers the concession period through 2053 and includes overall investments of almost €1.9 billion. The main project is the completion of the third lane on the A4 motorway along the Veneto section between San Donà and Portogruaro, around 25 kilometres. The works have already been awarded to the general contractor and are worth €870 million, the largest investment ever undertaken by the company. Alongside the Veneto section, the plan also includes the completion of the third lane in Friuli Venezia Giulia, between Palmanova and Villesse, for a further 12 kilometres. Network-wide works are also planned across the entire concession, including extraordinary maintenance and upgrade interventions.
Shareholders—Friuli Venezia Giulia Region and Veneto Region—were informed of the progress of the process during an ordinary shareholders’ meeting held in Trieste. On the numbers side, 2025 marked a new traffic record: more than 54 million vehicles travelled on Autostrade Alto Adriatico’s network. That is two million more than in 2024 and twenty million more than twenty years ago. Despite the increase in volumes, the accident rate is now below the national average, including on sections that are still two-lane. The company reports a 70% reduction in accidents compared with twenty years ago.
For the eighth consecutive year, at the end of 2025, the concessionaire also asked not to apply any toll increases on its network. A choice consistent with the financial plan currently being approved, and also justified by the aim of not placing additional burdens on businesses, workers and families in a complex economic phase.
