List of highways in Victoria
Victoria (Australia) has the highest highway density in comparison to all other Australian states. Unlike the other states, Victoria has no almost unpopulated outback, here the cities are evenly distributed over the entire area, with the exception of the Northwest and the Australian Alps where no people live.
The traffic density on the highways in Victoria generally higher than most other states. The Hume Highway, the Western Highway and the Princes Highway have with the highest traffic on throughout Australia.
Some of the highways are built to freeway. A freeway is basically multi-lane intersection-free and has entrances and exits.
Naming and numbering
The Highways in Victoria are usually named after the geographic region, specific characteristics or by city. For some, such as the Western Highway or Northern Highway, only the direction in which they were leaving Melbourne chosen as the label.
The numbering is based on the so-called ring - and -spoke system. The annularly extending through Victoria highways get integer multiples of hundreds, such as the Henty Highway ( 200), the Murray Valley Highway (400) and the Great Alpine Road ( 500), which marks the outermost ring. The Midland Highway ( 300) and the Maroondah Highway form the innermost ring.
The spokes usually get their number from the parent National Highways. Otherwise get trunk roads in east-west direction just numbers and in north-south direction odd numbers. Highways and primary roads are numbered with multiples of 10.
In addition, many of the streets in the city of Melbourne have received numbers according to this system.
National Highways
- Western Freeway
- Western Highway
- Sturt Highway
- Hume Freeway
- Goulburn Valley Highway
- Ring Road (Melbourne )
State Highways
- Princes Freeway
- Monash Freeway
- City Link
- Westgate Freeway
- Geelong Ring Road
- Tullamarine Freeway
- City Link
- Eastern Freeway
- Eastlink
- Tullamarine Freeway
- City Link
- South Gippsland Freeway
- South Gippsland Highway
- Bass Highway
Main roads
- Goulburn Valley Highway
- Maroondah Highway
- Melba Highway
- Midland Highway
- Midland Link Highway
- Goulburn Valley Highway
- Maroondah Highway
- Bass Highway
- Strzelecki Highway
Connecting roads
- Dandenong Valley Highway
- South Gippsland Highway
- Pound Road
- Tarra Valley Road
- Grand Ridge Road
Outback tracks
- Grand Ridge Road
- Goombala Road
Tourist roads
- Great Ocean Road
- Murray Valley Highway
- Phillip Iceland Road
- Great Alpine Road