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The Krka Bridge is located in Croatia, between the Skradin and Å ibenik interchanges. It is a long concrete arch bridge spanning the Krka River at a height of . It carries the A1 motorway route south of Skradin, in immediate vicinity of
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, 5315 Skradin south
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, Between Skradin and Å ibenik interchanges.
Krka National Park
Krka National Park ( hr, Nacionalni park Krka) is one of the Croatian national parks, named after the river Krka (ancient Greek: ''Kyrikos'') that it encloses. It is located along the middle-lower course of the Krka River in central Dalmatia, i ...
.
The Krka River canyon is spanned by reinforced concrete arch, with arch rise of . Composite spandrel structure consists of steel girders and reinforced concrete deck slab. The steel grillage consists of two main longitudinal girders at the axial distance of , transversal girders set apart and peripheral beams. Immediately to the south of the bridge, there is Krka rest area offering a scenic view of the bridge and the river canyon.
The construction works comprised 16,000 cubic meters of excavation, 2,000 cubic meters of embankments and backfill, 11,800 cubic meters of various types of concrete and 2,300 tons of reinforcement steel. That does not include additional 1,700 tons of steel used for execution of the spandrel structure.
The Krka Bridge comprises the longest span of all the bridges on the A1 motorway, as its span surpasses the Maslenica Bridge by mere . That makes the Krka Bridge the fourth largest concrete arch bridge in Croatia, by span size, behind two arches of the Krk Bridge - and long and Å ibenik Bridge
Å ibenik () is a historic city in Croatia, located in central Dalmatia, where the river Krka flows into the Adriatic Sea. Å ibenik is a political, educational, transport, industrial and tourist center of Å ibenik-Knin County, and is also th ...
( long).
Traffic volume
Traffic is regularly counted and reported by Hrvatske autoceste, operator of the bridge and the A1 motorway where the bridge is located, and published by Hrvatske ceste. Substantial variations between annual ( AADT) and summer ( ASDT) traffic volumes are attributed to the fact that the bridge carries substantial tourist traffic to theDalmatia
Dalmatia (; hr, Dalmacija ; it, Dalmazia; see #Name, names in other languages) is one of the four historical region, historical regions of Croatia, alongside Croatia proper, Slavonia, and Istria. Dalmatia is a narrow belt of the east shore of ...
n Adriatic
The Adriatic Sea () is a body of water separating the Italian Peninsula from the Balkans, Balkan Peninsula. The Adriatic is the northernmost arm of the Mediterranean Sea, extending from the Strait of Otranto (where it connects to the Ionian Sea) ...
resorts. The traffic count is performed using analysis of motorway toll ticket sales.
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, 5315 Skradin south
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, Between Skradin and Å ibenik interchanges.
See also
* A1 motorway *List of arch bridges by length
This list of the longest arch bridge spans ranks the world's arch bridges by the length of their main span. The length of the main span is the most common way to rank bridges as it usually correlates with the engineering complexity involved in des ...
* List of bridges by length
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