List of highways in Tasmania

Tasmania

The Highways in Tasmania generally expand from Hobart and other major cities with secondary roads interconnecting the highways to each other. Functions of these highways include freight, personal travel and tourism.

The AusLink Network currently consists of the Midland, Bass, Brooker, East Tamar Highway and the southern section of the Tasman Highway (Hobart-Hobart Airport).

Tasmanian highway naming is straightforward. Most are generally named after the geographical regions and features, cities, towns and settlements along the way.

Brooker Highway

Excluding the old National Highway (Brooker, Midland, Bass), Tasmanian routes have been marked with the alphanumeric marking scheme since 1979 . Prior to this Tasmanian roads were markerd with a National and State Route Numbering System.

Highways are a part of Tasmania's road network, which covers a distance of approximately 24,000 kilometres (15,000 mi). As well as major highways between cities and ports, urban connectors between suburbs and commercial areas, residential streets, and forestry roads are also included. The most important state and regional connections, totalling 3,650 kilometres (2,270 mi), are state-owned roads, which are further classified into a road hierarchy.[1]:3–4 The herirachy consists of:

Trunk roads

The following roads are classified as trunk roads:[1]:10–12

Regional freight roads

The following roads are classified as regional freight roads:[1]:10–12

Regional access roads

The following roads are classified as regional access roads:[1]:10–12

Tasman Highway
East Derwent Highway

See also

  • Australian Roads portal
  • Tasmania portal

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources. "Tasmanian State Road Hierarchy" (PDF). Government of Tasmania. Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 May 2013. Retrieved 27 December 2013.

Further reading

External links

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