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.