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Verona's vast terrain is connected by an extensive network of controlled-access highways ('freeways'), limited-access roads ('expressways'), and highways. In fact, Verona has the most extensive highway and railway system in Cartadania. The regulatory authority, the [[Verona Department of Transportation]] (VDOT), constructs and maintains the state's immense highway system, as well as regulates aviation and public transportation systems. The rapidly growing population of the commonwealth is straining its transportation networks, although even with its 76 million residents, Verona has a notable lack of overall traffic congestion relative to its population and density, especially in areas outside of the Palm Coast and Alahuela metro areas.

The first Verona freeway was the Bay Freeway, which opened in 1948 and runs the length of the state adjacent to the Bay of Attalus from northeastern Sierra County to Volusia County (after which it becomes South Bend Parkway). As of 2024, {{convert|136336|km|mi}} of public highway crisscrossed Verona's landscape. To fund recent growth in the state highways, Verona has fourteen toll roads with several additional tollways proposed. In central Verona, [[Verona State Highway 295|SH-295]] (Varina Tollway) has an advisory speed limit of {{convert|195|km/h|mph}}, the highest in the nation, but also does not have a posted speed limit for most of its length. Before it was opened, the highest speed in Verona was {{convert|145|km/h|mph}} on SH-210, which had it tied with Santiago's [[Santiago#Transportation|SR-600]]. All federal and state highways in the commonwealth are paved.

Located northerly in Sarpedon, the state is an important transportation hub. Verona has 26 foreign trade zones (FTZ) and in 2022, a combined total of €330 billion of goods passed through Verona land FTZs alone, especially across the bay from Turiana and from other international sources by air and sea.