ABSTRACT
The roads in the Republic of Macedonia are classified into three categories: national roads connecting its territory with neighboring countries, regional roads connecting adjacent municipalities according to the territorial division of the state, and local roads within the frames of a single municipality. The national and the regional roads are administered by the Agency for State Roads of the Republic of Macedonia. The total length of the national roads amounts to 934 km, of which 244 km are highways and 3620 km are regional roads. According to data from 2007, there are a total of 990 bridges on the national and regional roads in Macedonia, of which 43% are on the national roads. Their total length is over 36 km, of which about 21 km are national roads. Only 8.5% of all the bridges are constructed in compliance with the Yugoslav Regulations on Engineering Norms for Loading of Road Bridges (1991), which is practically identical to the German DIN 1072.
