July the 29th, 2025 – A two million euro solution to the often endlessly long queues and jams at Croatian borders is looming. Could this innovative method send summer queues at crossings to the history books?
Croatia’s accession to the border-less Schengen zone solved the issue of long queues during the hot summer months at the border crossings with Slovenia and Hungary, but issues still plague other crossings.
As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, a two million euro solution to solve the unbearable traffic jams at Croatian borders could make all of our lives far easier, especially during summer. The solution focuses on national borders with neighbouring non-Schengen countries (Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro) where these queues tend to build up the most.
The system is worth 1.99 million euros including VAT, and the contract was awarded to a consortium consisting of King ICT as the contractor and Semafor and Odašiljači i veze as members. A total of two offers were received in the associated tender. The work will begin after the installation of the equipment is completed, and the contractors have two years to complete it from start to finish.
The innovative future system will use video analytical cameras that will be placed at the approaches to the Croatian borders to monitor the number of vehicles in the queues and the speed of their movement. The cameras will be equipped with algorithms for recognising license plates and analysing traffic flow, which will enable the precise measurement of the time needed to cross the border.
The special feature of this new and expensive solution to queues on the roads at Croatian borders lies in the use of data from mobile operators that will help identify vehicle density in areas where there’s no video surveillance. Machine learning algorithms will then work to analyse all necessary traffic data to identify congestion patterns and enable traffic jam prediction, according to Klikni.hr.
Drivers will be able to check waiting information via a mobile application (app) and by accessing the official website of Croatian Roads. The system will display the current waiting time for each monitored border crossing and suggest alternative routes when certain points are overloaded. The system will cover all the most important border crossings: Ilok, Erdut, Gunja, Maljevac, Ličko Petrovo Selo, Kamensko, Aržano, Tovarnik, Stara Gradiška, Slavonski Šamac, Slavonski Brod, Županja, Donji Vinjani, Gornji Vinjani, Karasovići, Zaton Doli, Klek, Metković, Hrvatska Dubica and Hrvatska Kostajnica. These crossings record the highest traffic during the summer tourist season and are the main roads connecting Croatia with Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro, none of which are EU, EEA or Schengen nations.
The project was also initiated due to wider European Union (EU) obligations. One of the EU regulations from 2014 requires Member States to provide information on waiting times at border crossings with non-EU countries. Croatian Roads has been appointed as the National Access Point for providing this data.
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