On Sunday, 15 March, the Traffic Information Centre for Public Roads (PIC), established by the Slovenian Infrastructure Agency (DRSI) and the Motorway Company in the Republic of Slovenia (DARS d.d.), will complete its twentieth year of successful operation. The PIC is organisationally part of DARS, which, since its foundation, has taken over its financial and HR needs and taken care of its technological development.
The PIC, whose main task is to inform the public about the condition and passability of all state roads, has provided more than 830,000 pieces of information about events on the national road network to the media in the 20 years it has been in operation, and it also informs drivers via its website www.promet.si, the Promet+ app, the call centre on 1970 or 01/518-8-51, and the social networks X (@promet_si) and Facebook (Promet.si).
In its 20 years of operation, the PIC has reported more than 830,000 events on Slovenian roads. The increase in the number of events reported by the PIC with the growth of traffic and the development of the road network in Slovenia is best illustrated by a comparison between 2006 and 2025. In 2006, the PIC reported 7,535 events and in 2025, 74,300 events, which is 6,192 per month or 206 per day.
The Traffic Information Centre for Public Roads collects information on the condition of all the state roads managed by DRSI and DARS and the traffic on them in a single and uniform way and disseminates it to the public 24 hours a day, 365 days a year through various media. The PIC works closely with radio and TV stations, providing up-to-date traffic information free of charge, and its staff can be heard live on more than 20 radio and TV stations every day.
Drivers can consult trained advisers via the call centre on 1970 or 01/518-8-518 for recommendations and possible detours, as well as optimal routes between places in Slovenia, the distances between them, restrictions for goods vehicles, expected traffic congestion, announced road closures and other important traffic information.
In addition to the constructive cooperation with DRSI and DARS services (control centres, maintenance staff and toll workers), as well as with the police (Operational Communication Centres), the PIC has established a number of international contacts for the provision of the most important traffic information from abroad and is actively participating in some European projects for international traffic management and traffic diversion.
The PIC also keeps up-to-date with the latest trends and technologies in driver services. For example, the Promet+ app already uses V2X (Vehicle-to-Everything) technologies, where information reaches the driver using the app directly from the system, reliably and quickly. An example is the wrong-way driving alert system, where inductive loops on the motorway tell the app in less than a second if they detect a vehicle driving in the wrong direction. The system is set up so that only drivers approaching the danger point get the information.
The app, which is currently being redesigned, is also available in a basic form on Android Auto.
The Traffic Information Centre for Public Roads was established on 15 March 2006 on the basis of a mandatory instruction from the Minister of Transport and a mutual agreement between the then Slovenian Roads Agency and DARS, thus ensuring the centralised collection of traffic information and its dissemination to the public.
Traffic Information Centre for Public Roads Slovenia