Brenner Autobahn "Brenner Autobahn" is a toll route in both Austria and Italy. When travelling on the Austrian A13, drivers are required to pay extra tolls (), either by credit card or cash at the toll plaza at the Schönberg im Stubaital junction or via a "Videomaut" prepaid system. As the Brenner Autobahn is a so-called special toll section (), it is exempt from the toll vignette usually obligatory on Austrian motorways and expressways. Brenner Autobahn The Brenner Autobahn ( or , ) refers to a major European truck route, which connects Innsbruck in Austria to Modena in northern Italy. Numbered as
Brenner Pass to the German word for somebody who clears woodland. A name for the pass itself appears for the first time in 1328 as "ob dem Prenner" (German for "above the Prenner"). The Romans regularised the mountain pass at Brenner, which had already been under frequent use during the prehistoric eras since the most recent Ice Age. Brenner Pass, however, was not the first trans-Alpine Roman road to become regularised under the Roman Empire. The first Roman road to cross the Alpine range, Via Claudia Augusta, connected Verona in northern Italy with Augusta Vindelicorum (modern-day Augsburg) in the Roman province of