Autostrada A13 is an Italian motorway which connects Bologna to Padua, passing through Ferrara and Rovigo. It is long. Near the two extremities of the track are situated two of the biggest Italian freight villages, in Bologna and Padua. Snow tyres are compulsory from 15 November to 15 April on the whole highway track, according to the Italian directives. History The first section of the motorway, from Bologna to Ferrara South, was opened to traffic on 22 December 1966. On 10 August 1968 the segment from Ferrara South to Ferrara North was opened. On 7 August 1969 the section from Boara to Padua was inaugurated. Furthermore, it was the first highway on which has been experimented foggy signage. In 1964 it was proposed to lengthen the motorway from Padua to Treviso (another city in Veneto, Italy), and then up to Tarvisio (a small village along the borders between Italy, Austria, and Slovenia), but this was never done. The highway today The track begins from the orbital road around Bologna, that connects the three important highways in Bologna: A13 towards Padua, A1 (Milan-Naples), A14 (Bologna-Taranto). The highway ends in Padua, at the junction with A4 (Turin-Trieste). The whole way winds in the Pianura Padana and passes through Emilia-Romagna and Veneto. The only uplands in the surroundings are Colli Euganei, famous thermal area with Abano Terme in the middle. In fact, due to this kind of morphological features of the territory the highway crosses, during the winter-like seasons it is often present a great deal of fog, leading to a bad and reduced view. Its management is assigned to the Italian society Autostrade per l'Italia. By the exit Ferrara South there is a beltway leading to Porto Garibaldi, a town on the Adriatic Sea, whose first segment (between Ferrara South and the junction with state road SS16) is owned by Autostrade per l'Italia, while from this junction up to SS309 "Romea" it is owned by ANAS. The entire beltway is called Beltway 8 and is about long. Nowadays it is free, without any highway toll to be paid, even if in future the Government would be going to build toll booths in order to be accessible only after paying an amount. Tutor This motorway has been chosen - along with A4 and A14 - to experiment new devices (called Safety Tutor) to measure vehicles average speed, working since 2005. Those are metal