Public transit and infrastructure

Bosnia & Herzegovina is a rather mountainous country with cities settled in river valleys, making travels between the cities scenic, but slow and expensive to build through.

Airports

• Operating: Sarajevo (SJJ), Banja Luka (BNX), Tuzla (TZL)
• Barely alive: Mostar (OMO)
• Under construction: Bihać, Trebinje

For latest aviation news related to Bosnia, check out EX-YU Aviation News or SeeNews.

Trains

Slow, unreliable, underdeveloped, rarely used by locals. Two exceptions:

1. Sarajevo - Mostar line → Very scenic drive through the Neretva kanyon.
2. Sarajevo - Ploče (HR) line → Seasonal train to the Croatian coast operating Fri-Sun. The only international connection you can make.

Passenger traffic is split into two separate systems (one operating in the Federation of Bosnia & Herzegovina, one in Republika Srpska). The only connection between the two used to be Sarajevo - Banja Luka line, but that line was halted in 2020 and never resumed.

For the Federation, you can look at the schedule and purchase tickets online, but not for the Sarajevo - Ploče (HR) line. For Republika Srpska, you can look at the schedule online, but you can't purchase tickets on their website (which isn't even available in English).

Sarajevo's train station is quite frankly in embarrassing condition. Very poorly maintained and workers there tend to be very grumpy and not speak a word of English.

Buses

Your best option for intercity travel.

Planning a trip ahead of time is tricky, there's no country-wide up-to-date information available online. There's an online service called buskarta.ba which contains routes operated by some of the most popular bus companies in the country, but for most up-to-date schedule you should either call the bus station or visit it.

Official timetables: Sarajevo, Mostar, Tuzla

Highways

By Karlozaceroti - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=126504893

A1 highway, commonly referred to as Corridor Vc (or 5c) is a part of the pan-European highway network. It is supposed to cut through Bosnia north to south, ultimately connecting Budapest (HU) with the Croatian coast.

Currently 126 km out of 334 km passing through Bosnia are in operation. The most significant part of it connects Zenica to Sarajevo before continuing south towards Mostar. Only 2/3 of the way to Konjic (a town at halfway point) are currently open.

Republika Srpska has built a highway that connects Doboj to Banja Luka, as well as to the border with Croatia via Gradiška. Note that the actual border crossing is in fact quite tiny and that there's no direct highway connection to the Croatian highway just ~10 kilometres north of the border.

Tuzla, Bosnia's 3rd most populous city, is rather poorly connected to every other major town around it, including Sarajevo, Doboj, Bijeljina, and Brčko.